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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Bradley County, Tennessee
Adjacent to Bradley County, Tennessee
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| On Worth Street Northeast at Market Street Northeast, on the left when traveling east on Worth Street Northeast. |
| | Charleston, formerly Fort Cass during the “Trail of Tears” (Indian removal of 1838), was strategically important in the military struggle for East Tennessee. The East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad bridge here, the line’s only crossing . . . — — Map (db m69343) HM |
| On Market Street Northeast north of Cass Street Northeast, on the right when traveling north. |
| | During the war, Henegar House’s occupants, as in many other Tennessee homes, were divided in their loyalties. Henry Benton Henegar, the owner, was a Unionist while his wife, Margaret Lea Henegar, was a secessionist. Whenever Confederates occupied . . . — — Map (db m69346) HM |
| On Keith Street Northwest (U.S. 11) at Stuart Road, on the right when traveling north on Keith Street Northwest. |
| | Here stood the home of John Walker, Junior, known as “Chief Jack”. A grandson of Nancy Ward, he was prominent in the affairs of the Cherokee nation, belonging to the party advocating a voluntary treaty of removal of the Cherokees to the . . . — — Map (db m81366) HM |
| On 2nd Street Southeast 0.1 miles south of Linden Avenue Southeast, on the right when traveling south. |
| | On this site in 1910, East Side School was constructed to serve as a three year City High School. The students then transferred to Bradley Central High School when it was completed in 1916. The school was renamed Allen Grammar School in honor of . . . — — Map (db m153740) HM |
| On North Ocoee Street (State Highway 74) just north of 22nd Street Northwest, on the left when traveling south. |
| | On this site in 1916, Bradley Central High School began meeting the educational needs of
this community. Adopting its name from the county, which in turn was named in honor of Col. Edward Bradley, a veteran of both the Revolutionary War and the War . . . — — Map (db m153667) HM |
| On Dalton Pike (Tennessee Route 60) 0.4 miles south of Old Weatherly Switch Road SE (Tennessee Route 317), on the left when traveling south. |
| | After battles at Chattanooga in November 1863, and before the Atlanta Campaign the following May, southern Bradley County lay between Union and Confederate lines at Cleveland, Tennessee, and Dalton, Georgia. Both armies scouted the area. Soldiers . . . — — Map (db m115884) HM |
| On Inman Street East (U.S. 64) at Parker Street Northeast, on the right when traveling east on Inman Street East. |
| | When the Civil War began, Cleveland was a divided community with most residents being sympathetic to the Union. Confederate troops occupied the area in 1861 to control the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad and to protect the vitally important . . . — — Map (db m69342) HM |
| On 1st Street Northeast, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Benjamin Cleveland was born in Virginia, later served in the North Carolina House of Commons and led the Wilkes County militia at the Battle of Kings' Mountain on October 7, 1780. This battle was considered a turning point of the American Revolution . . . — — Map (db m107924) HM |
| On Berry Street Northeast just south of Central Avenue Northeast, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On this site in 1883, the first local school building for African-Americans was erected. In 1890, the school awarded four diplomas at its first commencement. The wooden building was razed in 1924, and a new brick structure was built to house grades . . . — — Map (db m153738) HM |
| On North Ocoee Street (State Highway 74) at 8th Street Northwest, on the left when traveling north on North Ocoee Street. |
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South (front) face
CSA
1861
1865
To our known
and unknown
Confederate dead
East face
1861-1865
Erected by, the
Jefferson Davis Chapter
United Daughters
of the Confederacy,
1910.
West . . . — — Map (db m153676) WM |
| Near Blythewood Road Southwest at Harris Creek Road Southwest, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In 1873, Bennet Cooper (1797-1886) gave one-quarter of an acre of land for a family burying ground. His first wife, Lydia, was buried there along with several other family members. The cemetery is located on a ridge behind the Cooper Homeplace which . . . — — Map (db m81367) HM |
| Near 12th Street SW west of Goode Street SW, on the right when traveling west. |
| | First called City Cemetery, this is the resting place of both Confederate and Union soldiers. On November 4, 1862, a train wreck south of Cleveland killed 17 Confederate soldiers who are buried here in a mass grave. Nearby engagements in 1863 . . . — — Map (db m102186) HM |
| On North Ocoee Street (Tennessee Route 74) at Centenary Avenue NW, on the right when traveling north on North Ocoee Street. |
| | Since 1885 this campus has been dedicated to the purposes of Christian higher education. Lee College was founded by the Church of God as Bible Training School on January 1, 1918, on Caut Avenue in Cleveland. The school relocated in Sevierville in . . . — — Map (db m49558) HM |
| On North Ocoee Street (State Highway 74) just north of 6th Street Northeast, on the left when traveling north. |
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Masonic Lodge No. 134 and the town of Cleveland established the Masonic Female Institute in 1848 and opened the school in 1856. At the beginning of the war, student and diarist Myra Inman wrote of a disruption in the school's leadership: "Mr. . . . — — Map (db m153687) HM |
| On Central Avenue NW at Oak Street NW, on the right when traveling east on Central Avenue NW. |
| | Chartered Dec. 16, 1837, this was the first such institution in the Ocoee Purchase; here was its home during its entire existence. An early teacher (1843) was Henry von Aldehoff, a native of Prussia and graduate of Bonn University. This building was . . . — — Map (db m49559) HM |
| On Dalton Pike (State Highway 60). |
| | One mile west was this Cherokee council ground. Here was held the last council between the United States and the Cherokee nation, preceding the removal of the Indians to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. John Howard Payne, author of “Home, . . . — — Map (db m49722) HM |
| On Old Blue Springs Road west of Blue Springs Road Southeast, on the left when traveling west. |
| | After Union victories at Chattanooga in November 1863, the Union Army IV Corps's First Division, led by Gen. David S. Stanley, camped in this valley and made preparations for the Atlanta Campaign. By April 1864, more than 9,000 men were present, . . . — — Map (db m153744) HM |
| On Worth Street Southwest at 6th Street Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Worth Street Southwest. |
| | This monument is to perpetuate the memory of the Boys in Blue in the war of 1861-65 who have lived in Bradley County was dedicated by Oviatt Post No. 20 G. A. R. May 30 1914 — — Map (db m153743) WM |
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