Historical Markers and War Memorials in Maryville, Tennessee
Maryville is the county seat for Blount County
Maryville is in Blount County
Blount County(68) ► ADJACENT TO BLOUNT COUNTY Knox County(240) ► Loudon County(24) ► Monroe County(41) ► Sevier County(111) ► Graham County, North Carolina(23) ► Swain County, North Carolina(68) ►
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On Court Street south of Court Circle, on the right when traveling south.
Lane, John E (KIA) • Hearon, Marlow M • Henry, Walter S • Hester, Thurman O • Hipsher, Henry N • Hollingshead, Denver KIA • Huffstetler, John H • Huskey, Eugene E • Hutson, Luther C • Ingram, John J Jr • Ivey, Charles K • Jackson, Taylor G • . . . — — Map (db m150832) WM
On Caldenwood Highway (U.S. 129) at 6 Mile Road (Tennessee Route 336), on the left when traveling south on Caldenwood Highway. Reported missing.
Yellow Sulphur Springs was developed on a modest scale by Jesse Kerr in 1859. In 1885, Nathan McCoy, of Indiana, built an elaborate hotel here. John Hanlon took it over in 1900, and operated it until the outbreak of World War I. It burned in 1933. — — Map (db m107919) HM
On Old Niles Ferry Road at Nine Mile Road, on the left when traveling west on Old Niles Ferry Road.
This Presbyterian church was
established in 1786. Its first pastor
was the Rev. Gideon Blackburn
who served an extensive circuit
in the area. Elizabeth Paxton
Houston, mother of Sam Houston,
is buried here. — — Map (db m150789) HM
On Court Street south of Court Circle, on the right when traveling south.
In memory of soldiers and patriots
of the American Revolution
who settled in Blount County George Berry • Thomas Berry • John Biggs • Benjamin Bingham • Joseph Black Sr. • Andrew Bogle • Joseph Bogle Sr. • Joseph Bogle Jr. • John Boyd Sr. • . . . — — Map (db m150826) WM
On Court Street south of Court Circle, on the right when traveling south.
In honored glory
Lest we forget: This monument dedicated to all those gallant heroes of Blount County , living and dead, who have fought in all wars to preserve the American way of life.
The people who have no interest in the past have no hope . . . — — Map (db m150798) WM
On U.S. 129, 0.5 miles east of Happy Valley Road, on the left when traveling east.
On Abram’s Creek, near the site of the early Cherokee village, Chilhowee, William and Robert James established a water-powered cotton and woolen spinning and weaving factory. A charter for the business was issued in 1846 and the mill was evidently . . . — — Map (db m58501) HM
On South Washington Street (Tennessee Route 411) at Neff Street, on the right when traveling south on South Washington Street.
Stockade enclosing about two acres extending southwest to large spring at base of bluff. Scene of many privations, perils and heroic encounters. — — Map (db m107578) HM
On South Cedar Street at West Broadway Avenue (U.S. 411), on the right when traveling north on South Cedar Street.
A three-story brick building was erected 1872-74 on this site to train blacks as teachers. Institute was begun in 1867, in a log house ˝ mile north, and later moved into a new building, financed mainly by friends. By 1879, it had trained 80 . . . — — Map (db m81362) HM
March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863
Born In Rockbridge County VA
Moved To TN in 1807
Taught At This Schoolhouse In 1812
Attended Porter Academy In 1813
Joined Army In 1813 In Maryville, TN
Studied Law In Nashville, TN In 1818
U.S. . . . — — Map (db m1733) HM
On Court Street just south of Ellis Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Citizen of Blount County 1806-1818
Enlisted at Maryville in War 1812
Congressman from Tennessee 1823-1827
Governor of Tennessee 1827-1829
Liberator of Texas San Jacinto April 21,1836
President Republic of Texas 1836-1838, 1841-1844 . . . — — Map (db m150794) HM
On Calderwood Highway (U.S. 129) 0.1 miles south of Hutton Ridge Road, on the left when traveling south.
Established by James Houston in 1785, it stood about 300 yards east on Little Nine Mile Creek. From here, in 1786, John Sevier led 160 horsemen against the Cherokee towns. In 1788, the Kirk family was massacred about three miles south; shortly . . . — — Map (db m58500) HM
On South Washington Street (State Highway 35) at Sevierville Road, on the right when traveling south on South Washington Street.
Site of the original settlement of Maryville. Here Captain John Craig in 1785 erected a fort on Pistol Creek to protect settlers from Indian raids. In 1793 as many as 280 men, women, and children lived within its walls for several months, surviving . . . — — Map (db m58839) HM
On East Broadway Avenue (U.S. 411) south of North Court Street, on the right when traveling south.
Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans
and later king of France, lived in
exile in the United States in 1797.
Following a route designed by
President George Washington he
toured the South in that year. On
April 29 he spent the night here
at Woods . . . — — Map (db m150836) HM
On E. Lamar Alexander Pkwy (Route 321), on the right when traveling east.
Founded in 1819 by the Synod of Tennessee, Presbyterian Church in the USA, as The Southern and Western Theological Seminary, its first president was Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D. Its original buildings were on Broadway at College Street. Receiving its . . . — — Map (db m36993) HM
Near McCammon Avenue at McGhee Street, on the left when traveling east.
During the antebellum period, Blount County supported abolitionism. In 1822, local Quakers and other residents formed an abolitionist society, and in the decades following, local clergymen preached against the evils of slavery. When the county . . . — — Map (db m69452) HM
On West Broadway Avenue (Tennessee Route 411), on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated with great affection and esteem by former students to the memory of Professor Charles William ("Bill Joe") Henry (1878-1935) and Mrs. Leola Landon Henry (1884-1966). Married January 1904. Founders and operators of Maryville Polytechnic . . . — — Map (db m107920) HM
On Broadway Avenue (State Highway 33), on the right when traveling east.
7 ½ mi. S, this resort was termed the Saratoga of the South in stagecoach days. First advertised in 1832; Daniel Foute built a log hotel there in 1837. In 1853, Asa Watson, of Mississippi, built the Seven Gable Hotel. Sidney Lanier spent much . . . — — Map (db m81363) HM
On West Broadway Avenue at Cates Street, on the left when traveling west on West Broadway Avenue.
This Presbyterian church was founded in 1786 by Rev. Archibald Scott, of Virginia. In 1792, Rev. Gideon Blackburn built a log church here; the stones in the present wall are from a church which replaced it in 1829; the brick church replaced it in . . . — — Map (db m28733) HM
On Wildwood Springs Road at Wildwood Road, on the right when traveling east on Wildwood Springs Road.
Chartered in 1806. Opened in 1808. Occupied two Maryville sites from 1808 to the Civil War. Reopened at Wildwood in 1872 on a five acre tract donated by Thomas J. Pritchett and wife Mary. Academy land and buildings were deeded to Blount County in . . . — — Map (db m150839) HM
On West Broadway Avenue (U.S. 411) at West Lamar Alexander Parkway (U.S. 321), on the right when traveling north on West Broadway Avenue.
Dr. Samuel Pride, first Worthy Master of the New Providence Masonic Lodge, built his house here. Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, enroute to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, billeted himself here. From 1878 to 1900 it was the Friends’ Normal Institute. . . . — — Map (db m58509) HM
On Broadway Avenue (State Highway 33), on the right when traveling east.
Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, U.S.A., arrived in Blount County with 25,000 men, Dec. 5, 1863, to relieve Gen. Ambrose Burnside besieged at Knoxville by Gen. James Longstreet. The 15th Corps camped around Maryville, the 11th around Louisville and the 4th . . . — — Map (db m58836) HM
On East Broadway Avenue (Tennessee Route 33) at East Lincoln Road, on the left when traveling north on East Broadway Avenue.
Three miles south is the school-house built in 1796 by Andrew Kennedy and Henry McCulloch for their children. Sam Houston taught here in 1811 or 1812. He later became Governor of Tennessee, Commander-in-Chief of the Texas Army, President of the . . . — — Map (db m109629) HM
On West Broadway Avenue (Tennessee Route 411) at West Lamar Alexander Parkway (Tennessee Route 321), on the right when traveling east on West Broadway Avenue.
Four separate plaques. (Text of each plaque under the photos below.) — — Map (db m107921) HM
On U.S. 411, 0.5 miles north of Henry Lane, on the right when traveling north.
On the hill to the south, beside the Great War and Trading Path, later the Federal Road, Samuel Henry, Sr., built a fort by 1792. The half-breed John Watts and 200 followers attacked it in August, 1793. Henry’s first mill was authorized in 1795. He . . . — — Map (db m58508) HM
On Tuckaleechee Pike east of Walland Gap Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Erected near Indian
War Path
1790
Gift of descendants of
Josias Gamble
and Ann Gamwell
Marker placed by
Mary Blount Chapter
DAR 1940 — — Map (db m195414) HM
On Montvale Road (State Road 336) 0.3 miles south of Blockhouse Road, on the right when traveling south.
For more than 200 years the Black Sulfur Spring has been a landmark location in Blount County. The spring and 215 acres was bought from David Delzell in 1834 to become one of three primary mineral springs for Daniel Foute's 6,500 acre Montvale . . . — — Map (db m164837) HM
On West Broadway Avenue at South Cedar Street, on the right when traveling south on West Broadway Avenue.
Built by Mr. Pete Hood c. 1910
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m184598) HM
On Broadway Ave. at Cusick St., on the right when traveling west on Broadway Ave..
Here, where Blount County's first courthouse stood, Sam Houston "took a dollar from the drum", thus marking his first enlistment in the United States Army, March 24, 1813. This culminated in his command of the Army of Texas, which decisively . . . — — Map (db m28579) HM
On West Broadway Avenue at Gary H. Hensley Drive, on the right when traveling east on West Broadway Avenue.
William B. Scott, Sr., a free Black, migrated to East Tennessee in 1847 after increased racial tension in North Carolina. He made harnesses and saddles in Blount County’s Quaker community of Friendsville until the Civil War. In Knoxville, during . . . — — Map (db m107600) HM