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By Tom Bosse, February 11, 2017
Cavett's Station Marker
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1 ► Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville — 1E 31 — Cavett's Station —  |
| About ½ mile north was this early fortified settlement. Here on Sept 25, 1793, Alexander Cavett and 12 other settlers were massacred by a Cherokee war party under Doublehead, one of the more savage chiefs of the tribe. — — Map (db m32688) HM | |||
| 2 ► Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville — In Grateful Memory to the Defenders of Cavett Blockhouse — |
| Upon this spot stood the house of Alexander Cavett who was murdered together with two men and the Cavett family of twelve, September 25th, 1793, after heroic resistance against a combined Creek and Cherokee force numbering one thousand warriors, . . . — — Map (db m109336) HM | |||