Founded in 1822, this Primitive Baptist Church has been in constant use. It holds an annual foot-washing ceremony the first Sunday in May, which is attended by communicants and witnesses from many parts of this and neighboring states. — — Map (db m52585) HM
When the Civil War began, Carroll County residents were divided about equally between Union and Confederate sympathies and furnished a similar number of soldiers for each army. The well-to-do cotton growers residing in the prime land in the western . . . — — Map (db m179657) HM
Alvin Hawkins
1821-1905
Born in 1821 in Bath County, Kentucky, Alvin Hawkins moved to Carroll County when he was seven years old. After attending McLemoresville Academy and Bethel College he tried his hand as a farmer, blacksmith, and teacher . . . — — Map (db m264334) HM
Dedicated to
those who
gave their lives
Mexican War 1846-1848
Company B, Carroll County Guards
Tennessee Volunteers
John A. Barham • J. B. H. Bigham • W. E. Bledsoe • Samuel W. Bridges • Clark S. Butler • Gilmore S. Butler • Thomas . . . — — Map (db m179661) WM
Thomas Park was established in 1906 by the Civic Improvement Club, a women's group whose primary objective was the beautification of their hometown. The Club took on the task of making the area on East Main Street around the train depot more . . . — — Map (db m179631) HM
Governor
Gordon Browning
Served
1937 to 1939 and
1949 to 1953
Governor
Alvin Hawkins
Served
1881 to 1888
The 200th year of this Nation
1776-1976 — — Map (db m273134) HM
Born in Maury Co., he was an officer of volunteers in the Mexican War. A lifelong staunch Unionist, he was a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention of 1860, later an officer in the Federal Army. A delegate to the Republican convention . . . — — Map (db m52608) HM
The Town of Huntingdon greatly appreciates the participation and assistance of the Walt Montgomery Family who acquired the cabin from its original home in Berton County. The cabin containing Chestnut logs, dates back to the early 1800's and was . . . — — Map (db m264335) HM
This site was a portion of the property that was home for Hotel Olive built in 1889 and later burned in 1930. E.H. & Lida Mai Edwards built the service station on the property in 1935 that remained a functioning service station for the downtown area . . . — — Map (db m179644) HM
Lived and is buried about 3½ miles southeast. On December 9, 1822, he made a trail through the woods to the new county seat, carrying a crosscut saw. Arrived at Huntingdon, he sawed a door in the new log courthouse and thus, as Chairman of the . . . — — Map (db m52609) HM
Established in 1822, this cemetery contains the remains of soldiers from every major American war since the establishment of the state. Among those buried here are two from the War of 1812, three from the Mexican War, and thirty-eight from the Civil . . . — — Map (db m51407) HM
Built about 1818 in the area to the east. Here also were held barbecues, barn dances, prize fights and cockfights. Here, according to court records, David Crockett “participated in an affray,” while attending the races. He was fined six . . . — — Map (db m52584) HM
Although many West Tennessee residents favored secession, Unionism was strong in many areas, particularly in the counties near the Tennessee River. Two of the most notable Unionists lived on the south and north sides of Huntingdon.
Isaac R. . . . — — Map (db m179626) HM
Founded as Bethel Seminary at McLemoresville in 1842 by the West Tennessee Synod, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Ruben Burrow principal. Incorporated in 1847, it became Bethel College in 1850 and moved here in 1872. It was presented to . . . — — Map (db m52842) HM
About 3 miles SE, the lake was discovered in 1785 by Henry Rutherford, who surveyed the majority of west Tennessee. It was orginally named Boyd's Lake, for the Rev. Adam Boyd, chaplin [sic] of the North Carolina Regiment in the Revolution, who later . . . — — Map (db m81368) HM
Shortly after the Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862, information reached the Confederate army near Corinth in northern Mississippi that a large store of Union supplies worth $3,000,000 was located at Paducah, Kentucky. On April 29, Confederate . . . — — Map (db m271959) HM
Moving to McKenzie, Forrest's Brigade captured the 100 - man garrison. Here they spent Christmas Eve, while working parties completed destruction of 4 miles of trestles and bridge between the forks of the Obion River. Other parties completed . . . — — Map (db m52174) HM
Albert Gallatin Harris purchased this farm in 1829 and built the present house in 1857. After camping on the land during the Civil War, Union troops ransacked the farm, killing or stealing all the livestock. They did not burn the house because the . . . — — Map (db m74514) HM
James Monroe McKenzie, entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born in February 12, 1818. In 1860 he donated land for the depot and freight office where the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad crossed the Memphis and Ohio Railroad, resulting in the . . . — — Map (db m81369) HM
(preface)
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec. 15, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky, and Vicksburg, . . . — — Map (db m74532) HM
The Arcade saloon
was located on the corner of
Broadway and Lee Street
and operated from 1870-1885.
The proprietor of the establishment was
J.H. Coleman
who touted himself as a "saloonist."
Coleman advertised that a patron could buy
the . . . — — Map (db m271956) HM
From the late 1800's until the Hamilton Building
was constructed in 1929, Dennings' Tin Shop, a livery
stable, and Lee Stroup's Saloon operated on this site.
Originally, the building was in two sections.
On the west side was Bobo's Dry Goods . . . — — Map (db m271957) HM
During the 1880's before this building was
constructed in 1898, the site was home to a shoe maker,
photo gallery and dry goods store.
Operating on the bottom floor of the building from
1899-1947 was J.P. Cannon & Sons Drug Store.
The original . . . — — Map (db m271953) HM
Originally founded in 1923 as the black "County Training School" at Smyrna, Tennessee. It was moved to McKenzie in 1927, and named "Webb High School" in honor of John L. Webb. With over 1900 alumni, this school, under the leadership of J. L. Seets . . . — — Map (db m52177) HM
Near this site, in 1842, Bethel
College had its beginning as Bethel
Seminary, founded by the West
Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. The college
continued here in McLemoresville
until 1872, when it was moved to
McKenzie. . . . — — Map (db m194269) HM
The home of R.E.C. Dougherty stood on the foundations of the house to the north. Here, as Chairman, he held the first meeting of the Carroll County Court, March 11, 1822. Members were, Daniel Barcroft, John Bone, Banks W. Burrow, Edward Gwin, John . . . — — Map (db m51405) HM
Forrest's Brigade, re-armed, and re-equipped with material and horses captured from the Federal storehouses which they had plundered, passed through here enroute to Lexington and their re-crossing of the Tennessee River at Clifton. — — Map (db m51406) HM
McLemoresville was settled in early 1800. In 1820 missionaries Rev. Benjamin Peeples and Rev. Lewis Garrett met at the Public Land Office to divide their territory. By 1859 a church was organized. From 1886 when the northern Methodist Episcopal . . . — — Map (db m194273) HM
Formerly enslaved, the Reverend Levi Price and his wife Lizzie Price were members of the original church. The Reverend Levi Price served as the first pastor of Reedy Creek Missionary Baptist Church, the only African American Church in the area. On . . . — — Map (db m130428) HM
This 1800's log structure was donated to the
Town of McLemoresville by the Newman Walpole
family of Brownsville, TN in 2007, for use as an
historic site, visitor center and museum annex.
Restoration and furnishings were made possible
by the . . . — — Map (db m273136) HM
First used as Post No. 2 by the 1785 surveyors, a town was later established on November 14, 1823, at John Christmas McLemore's Bluff, on the South Fork of the
Obion River. Goods were shipped down the river until 1854. Buckeye Point, 1 mile east, . . . — — Map (db m52130) HM
On the old McKenzie Road one mile north stands the historic home of Major Jack Hillsman, Civil War veteran, son of pioneer Reddick Hillsman from North Carolina who helped organize Carroll County in 1821. The two-story house, completed in 1869, was . . . — — Map (db m52192) HM
Constructed in 1941, Milan Army Ammunition Plant Housing Area, better known as Area Q, served as base housing for assigned military personnel as well as selected supervisors and employees of the plant from 1941 to 2004. Styled in the classical . . . — — Map (db m265761) HM
World War I
Orville Lewis
World War II
George M. Ammons •
Bernie Birchfield •
Irick I. Birchfield •
Carl W. Boyd •
Fred L. Cable •
Henry Calloway •
Frank Verran Carver (MIA) •
John R. Clark •
Thomas Coleman •
John R. . . . — — Map (db m294326) WM
About 1 mile S.W., at the home of a daughter, Mary Johnson Stover, Andrew Johnson died in 1875. He had been a senator from Tennessee; governor of Tennessee; military governor under Federal occupation; vice-president of the United States and 17th . . . — — Map (db m157912) HM
This 1921 T Model fire engine carried chemicals rather than water for extinguishing fires. Several years ago firemen and friends restored the vehicle to its present "cherry" red condition. — — Map (db m306549) HM
The Riverview Building was built in the late 1930's atop the foundation of what was originally the tavern where it is said
former President Andrew Johnson took his last drink, in 1875. Later that night he died from a stroke. — — Map (db m293562) HM
Barnes Boring was officially established as a corporation on February 26, 1900 with J. M. Barnes and J. R. Boring as principal stockholders. The two gentlemen died just months from each other nearly 30 years after beginning their partnership. — — Map (db m192800) HM
In the 1920s, German and Dutch investors established two factories for the production of rayon in Elizabethton: American Bemberg Corporation and North American Rayon Corporation. The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), . . . — — Map (db m135498) HM
These concrete footings held the Bemberg Water Tower which supplied water to the ET&WNC (Tweetsie) steam engines in the early 1900’s. Project funded by www.cartercountyhistory.com website and the alumni of the 2014-2015 Carter County Adult . . . — — Map (db m135497) HM
This walkway now exists where once the Grand Theater, the first theater in Elizabethton, stood. The theater had a balcony for blacks only, but legend has it that sometimes white men snuck up the stairs to join them and smoke cigars. — — Map (db m192802) HM
The Bonnie Kate Theater was built in the classic revival style of
architecture. It was named after Miss Katherine Sherrill Sevier
the wife of the first governor of Tennessee, John Sevier. The theater
opened to a house of 500 from the 1920's to . . . — — Map (db m306548) HM
Nearby Buffalo Creek is one of numerous place names in the Southern Appalachian mountains that serve as reminders that the buffalo, or American bison, was once plentiful in the region. In 1769 Daniel Boone narrowly escaped being trampled by a . . . — — Map (db m184052) HM
Established in 1892 by Harry Burgie, Burgie Drug, a revered establishment which was visited frequently by Elizabethton residents, served the community as a pharmacy and convenience store. — — Map (db m192801) HM
This clapboard-sided Greek Revival style home was built by Henderson Folsom around 1861 on what were the tracks #48 and #49 of the original 77 lots laid out in 1796. Elizabethton incorporated in 1799. — — Map (db m293373) HM
Originally built during the 1850's. It survived severe wind storm damage in March of 1901 and flood damage during the great flood that year wiping out twenty-three Elizabethton dwellings and all bridges except the covered bridge. — — Map (db m293376) HM
In Memory of Mary Patton who made the powder that fought the King’s M’T’N’ Battle placed by her great grand son. T.Y. Patton
Built in honor of all soldiers of Carter County in all the wars from the revolution down to this date, 1912, by . . . — — Map (db m135496) HM WM
Carter County’s railroad history is the story of three trains – the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, better known as Tweetsie (1881-1951); the Southern Railroad (1911-1940); and the North American Rayon Steam Engine (1936-1992). The . . . — — Map (db m46561) HM
John Carter
- 1781
Chairman of Watauga Association and of the five commissioners who established that first written compact for civil government by American-born freemen. Chairman of Committee of Safety. In Revolution, colonel of militia . . . — — Map (db m157908) HM
Cedar Grove Cemetery was originally established as a "colored cemetery" in the early nineteenth century on a tract of land adjacent to a trail that became known as Gap Creek Road. The remote and rocky terrain often required the use of dynamite to . . . — — Map (db m81370) HM
On this location the citizens of Elizabethton, Tennessee have dedicated a Time Capsule as the finale of their year long celebration of Elizabethton’s 200 Years. The capsule buried here is to be opened in the year 2099 AD. With this . . . — — Map (db m192864) HM
This bridge over Doe River was built early in 1882 at a cost to the county of $3000 for the bridge and $300 for the approaches. The site was chosen by J.J. McCorkle, Wiley Christian and H.M. Rentfro. The committee were Thomas E. Matson, Engineer, . . . — — Map (db m46706) HM
"Be always sure you are right, then go
ahead!" David Crockett
In the 49 years that David Crockett called Tennessee his home he migrated from one end of the Volunteer state to the other. From his birthplace near Limestone on the . . . — — Map (db m268085) HM
World War One
Robert B. Cable •
Nathaniel W. Ellis •
Lynn H. Folsom •
Robert H. Goodwin •
John B. White
World War Two
Stokes M. Taylor
Korean War
Buster Shell — — Map (db m294327) WM
These stones are from the foundation of the academy established Sept. 13, 1806, with Maj. George Duffield, Chairman, Nathaniel Taylor, George Williams, Alexander Doran & John Greer, Trustees. In 1807, Andrew Taylor, Abraham Henry and Reuben Thornton . . . — — Map (db m46607) HM
Duffield Academy, named for attorney George Duffield, was established
September 13, 1806. The original brick building was erected in 1838. The school for many years was operated as an elementary school. — — Map (db m293553) HM
The Dungan House, was constructed by Judge W. P. Dungan in 1892, band is believed to be the first house built in the New Town. It was the first house in Elizabethton to have electric lights, a residential
telephone, and its own private water . . . — — Map (db m306553) HM
This independent semi-professional barnstorming Negro baseball team consisted of young men from Elizabethton, Johnson City, Kingsport, Greeneville, Middle Tennessee, Kentucky, Bristol, and Martinsville, Virginia. Because of segregation, their . . . — — Map (db m157901) HM
The Elizabethton- Carter County Veterans Walk of Honor was dedicated on November 10, 2007 in grateful recognition of 6,700-plus Carter Couuty veterans now serving or who have served in the military with honor and valor.
Donors for the . . . — — Map (db m294325) WM
In 1772 the first court west of the Alleghanies was held under this tree
Additional marker:
In 1772, four years before the Declaration of Independence, settlers in the Watauga Valley adopted the “Articles of the Watauga . . . — — Map (db m157905) HM
In May 1776 the Cherokee chiefs, alarmed by the expansion of white settlers onto their land, gave the Wataugans twenty days to leave their lands or face war. The Wataugans asked for more time and built Fort Watauga (also called Fort Caswell) near . . . — — Map (db m268366) HM
To the memory of the patriots who on their way to King's Mountain under Sevier, Shelby and Campbell assembled here September 25, 1780
Fort Watauga, First (Settlers) Fort Built West of the Alleghanies. 1770 . . . — — Map (db m268070) HM WM
Both the Franklin House and Hunter Cottage were built by Dr, E. E. Hunter for his children. Neither of the houses originally included a kitchen since the daughters and their families were expected to take meals at the "big house". — — Map (db m293866) HM
The 86-foot Fraser Fir located next to the Folsom House is the tallest Fraser Fir in Tennessee and second tallest in the U.S. The tree was one of two planted by Major H. M. Folsom, Civil War veteran. — — Map (db m293374) HM
This project focused on one mile of the stream that you see above this sign. It was coordinated by the Boone Watershed Partnership, a non-profit organization in
northeast Tennessee that is dedicated to improving the quality of water resources. . . . — — Map (db m268068) HM
The Tipton family cemetery, it stood near the homesite of Samuel Tipton (1752-1833) and Susannah Reneau (1767-1853). Col. John Tipton, father of Samuel, deeded it to him in 1784. The house was later the home of a nephew, Isaac P. Tipton, whose . . . — — Map (db m81371) HM
The Race of the Doe River
A mill race is a current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel conducting water to or from a water wheel. Shown above is the Mill Race of the Doe River. This body of water was diverted from a broader . . . — — Map (db m293703) HM
Built in 1902, Hunter Cottage displays an English architectural influence in the barley twist spindles that line the lovely oak staircase and in the pocket doors which lead into the dining room. — — Map (db m294332) HM
"My father's name was John Crockett, and he was of Irish descent. I have learned that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and took part in that bloody struggle. He fought, according to my information, in the battle at Kings Mountain . . . — — Map (db m268101) HM
During the early years of European settlement in this valley, Mary McKeechan Patton (1751-1836) operated a gunpowder mill along Powder Branch not far to the south of this spot. Mary McKeechan was born in England and her family immigrated to . . . — — Map (db m183985) HM
Buffalo Creek Christian Church organized here in 1830. In 1867 Buffalo Male & Female Institute was established by Rev. W.G. Barker on land given by Joshua Williams. Josephus Hopgood of Ky. purchased it in 1875, naming it Milligan College in 1882, . . . — — Map (db m157861) HM
The stone obelisk on the hill to the south, erected in 1909 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, is dedicated "To the memory of the patriots who, on their way to King's Mountain under Sevier, Shelby, and Campbell, assembled here September . . . — — Map (db m183937) HM
After the British captured Charleston in May 1780, the Watauga country became a base from which the Patriots marched against the British and Loyalists in the east. British General Lord Cornwallis knew he must defeat these and other partisans and, on . . . — — Map (db m268379) HM
At least one account has it that in 1908 the post office moved into this building which was owned by Postmaster E. C. Alexander. In July 1920, Dr. C. C. Hacker opened medical offices in this building. — — Map (db m293704) HM
At Valley Forge, Dan Ellis usually assembled for Federal regiments whom he guided over obscure mountain trails to Kentucky, while East Tennessee was under Confederate control. Born 1827 and a veteran of the Mexican War, he was subsequently Captain . . . — — Map (db m135595) HM
In 1867, the Rev. Horace Leftwich, a former slave, founded the Elizabethton Colored Baptist Church. The next year, it was one of the five original churches that established the Watauga Baptist Association. In 1869, after joining the Bethel District . . . — — Map (db m263908) HM
Post World War II Army Reserve Unit
3299th Ordnance Maint. Co. U.S.A.R.
1st Reserve Unit in Tenn.
In memory of those who served
Capt. J. I. Cornett C.O. •
Capt. Carl Gross E.X.O. •
Fst/Sgt. Dale M. Bendetto •
M/Sgt. Blaine Hartley . . . — — Map (db m293550) WM
100 yards upstream at a falls stood an old powder mill, where Mary McKeehan Patton made powder for the soldiers who went to King's Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780. Michael Hyder, Sr., signer of the Halifax Petition in 1776 lived here and is buried on the . . . — — Map (db m157864) HM
The older (eastmost) portion of this building, Classical Revival in design, originally served as Elizabethton’s main post office. James A. Wetmore, working for the WPA, designed the building in 1931, and it was constructed in 1933. — — Map (db m183929) HM
Bringing Sabine Hill Back to Life Sabine Hill remained in the Taylor family through the latter 1940s. In August 1936, W. Jeter Eason with the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) visited Sabine Hill and took detailed photographs . . . — — Map (db m174641) HM
At the turn of the 20th century, the Mill Race was a healthy stream with naturally vegetated banks. Over the years, as industries supported by the Mill Race came and went, the stream deteriorated to a condition of stagnant flow and siltation. In . . . — — Map (db m293702) HM
This marker commemorates the
men and women who achieved
American independence
These Patriots, believing in the
noble cause of liberty, fought
valiantly to found a new nation
1775-1783 — — Map (db m268373) WM
This marker commemorates the men and women who achieved American independence. These Patriots, believing in the noble cause of liberty, fought valiantly to found a new nation.
1775-1783
Presented by Tennessee State Society Daughter of the . . . — — Map (db m309938) WM
This handsome house was built by Capt. L. H. Rhudy and Carrie Dungan Rhudy in 1894 and remained in the family until 1992. Two other original buildings remain on the property: a four-person, two-door brick outhouse and the carriage house. — — Map (db m306551) HM
Originally one of four movie theaters in downtown Elizabethton, this building was constructed in the late 1920's by local building contractor, Thomas Construction Company. The Art Nouveau style building is the only one of its type in Elizabethton. — — Map (db m293855) HM
S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of "five and dime" retail department stores in the United States, established by Samuel Henry Kress, which operated from 1896 to 1981. The Kress chain was known for the architecture of its buildings. — — Map (db m293862) HM
Sabine Hill, the large Federal-style structure on the knoll to the south, is one of the oldest surviving homes in Carter County. General Nathaniel Taylor (1771-1816), a veteran, of the War of 1812, began the construction of Sabine Hill shortly after . . . — — Map (db m174643) HM
Built about 1818 by Mary (“Polly”) Patton Taylor, widow of Gen. Nathaniel Taylor, of the War of 1812. Both are buried in the cemetery nearby. Among their great-grandsons were Governors Alfred A. and Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, and Nathaniel . . . — — Map (db m46387) HM
Although Tennessee voted to secede from the Union in June 1861, East Tennessee remained staunchly loyal. The residents of Carter County voted against secession, 1,343 to 86.
One of those residents, Admiral and General Samuel P. Carter (born . . . — — Map (db m293369) HM
Although Tennessee voted to secede from the Union in June 1861, East Tennessee remained staunchly loyal. The residents of Carter County voted against secession, 1,343 to 86.
One of those residents, Admiral and General Samuel P. Carter (born . . . — — Map (db m293370) HM
Born in this house. After attending Washington College and Princeton, graduated from U.S. Naval Academy; serving in the Navy until May 1, 1862, he was appointed brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers. His most conspicuous service was a raid into East . . . — — Map (db m46749) HM
This plaque is dedicated to Samuel Tipton, founder of Elizabethton. Born in 1752, Samuel Tipton was the eldest son of Col. John and Mary Butler Tipton. A Revolutionary War soldier, he owned the land on which Elizabethton is now located. His Green . . . — — Map (db m157907) HM
Built sometime before 1894, this house was constructed by the builder/owners of an overall factory. The basement still includes the river rock from which it was originally built. — — Map (db m293560) HM
The Soldiers' Monument was constructed in 1912 and dedicated in 1913 to all soldiers from the Revolution to that time. The monument was refurbished in 1989 and dedicated to Carter County soldiers serving in all wars. — — Map (db m293377) HM WM
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