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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Humphreys County, Tennessee
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| | This re-created “Home Place” of Loretta Lynn, originally located in Butcher Holler, KY has been built in memory of Loretta’s parents Ted & Clara Webb and to portray the rags to riches legacy of “The Coal Miner’s Daughter”. — — Map (db m95595) HM |
| On Hurricane Mills Road (County Route 1796) east of Old Tennessee Route 13, on the left when traveling east. |
| | This mill and dam were built by
James T. Anderson
in 1896
Though wool was carded here, grain processing predominated. Corn meal and flour were shipped throughout the south. Restored by Loretta and Mooney Lynn, with whose permission this . . . — — Map (db m51735) HM |
| On Broadway of America HIghway (US 70 at Bold Springs Road (SR 933) on Broadway of America HIghway (US 70. |
| | Located 1/2 mile east is the site of a wooden railroad trestle built for the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad during the Civil War. The 12th and 13th U.S. Colored Infantry constructed the trestle and 1305 feet of earthworks. They built another . . . — — Map (db m74379) HM |
| On Nell Beard Road at Broadway Street (U.S. 70) on Nell Beard Road. |
| | Johnsonville was a major Federal supply depot on the Tennessee River at the western terminus of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, completed in May 1864. Col. Charles R. Thompson commanded the 2,000-man garrison here. The 12th, 13th, and 100th . . . — — Map (db m74390) HM |
| On Old Johnsonville Road 0.5 miles west of Nell Beard Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s army held Atlanta and was poised to strike deeper into the Confederacy. Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford B. Forrest was determined to cut off Sherman’s supplies and cripple the Union campaign. In November 1864, Forrest . . . — — Map (db m74396) HM |
| On Old State Route 1 (County Highway 927) 0.2 miles south of Crockett Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | In August 1877, Jesse James, the notorious outlaw, moved to this site from Missouri and rented a farm from N.B. Link. Using the assumed name of J.D. Howard, he engaged in farming and horse racing. He entered one of his horses, Red Fox, in local . . . — — Map (db m52583) HM |
| On Old Johnsonville Road 0.4 miles west of Nell Beard Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | As the Union military occupation spread over Middle Tennessee, Federal commanders needed a supply depot on the Tennessee River. By 1863, they agree that such a depot, navigable year around, would provide Union armies in the west with a stream of . . . — — Map (db m74391) HM |
| On Old Johnsonville Road 0.6 miles west of Nell Beard Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Before you is the old railbed of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad. In 1863, the Union army extended the railroad to the Tennessee River, creating a reliable and secure supply line between the Ohio River and Nashville.
Building the . . . — — Map (db m74427) HM |
| On Redoubt Lane west of Museum Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This town was named for Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee (1862 - 65). Although the community had been a steamboat landing prior to the Civil War, it was not until the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad was completed by the Union Army . . . — — Map (db m51684) HM |
| On Old Johnsonville Road 0.1 miles west of Museum Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | The Tennessee River flows from the mountains of east Tennessee to the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky. In the 19th century it was navigable from the Ohio to Great Bend at Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama. Steamboats and gunboats could move freely . . . — — Map (db m82190) HM |
| On Old Johnsonville Road 0.7 miles west of Nell Beard Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | A civilian community grew up beside the army supply depot, providing goods and services to soldiers and civilian workers. After the Civil War, Johnsonville's economy revolved around the river and the railroad. Johnsonville ceased to exist in the . . . — — Map (db m74425) HM |
| On Old Johnsonville Road at Museum Road, on the left when traveling west on Old Johnsonville Road. |
| | Johnsonville was a vital cog in the Union war machine. At this busy, noisy, sprawling complex of wharves, docks, warehouses and corrals the work of war continued unabated. Steamboats crowded the wharf. Day in and day out, laborers moved everything . . . — — Map (db m82191) HM |
| Near Old Johnsonville Road 0.5 miles west of Nell Beard Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | United States Colored Troops formed the majority of Johnsonville's garrison. They played a crucial role in the construction of the depot and its defensive works. They garrisoned the blockhouse defending the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad and . . . — — Map (db m82192) HM |
| On Thompson Street at Mill Street (W. Court Square Street), on the right when traveling west on Thompson Street. |
| | On November 4, 1864, Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry attacked and destroyed the river port of Johnsonville located ten miles west of here on the Tennessee River. Union losses included four gunboats, fourteen steamboats, . . . — — Map (db m52611) HM |
| | Preserved here for future generations is the original bell installed in the County Court House erected on this public square in 1899. This bell may have existed in the earlier court houses erected here in 1836 and 1878 both of which were destroyed . . . — — Map (db m74382) HM |
| On South Church Street (SR 13) at Fort Hill Road on South Church Street (SR 13). |
| | Five hundred yards north is a Federal Civil War earthen fort constructed by the 12th and 13th U.S. Colored Infantry to protect the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad. The 1st Kansas Artillery was stationed there. The railroad from Johnsonville to . . . — — Map (db m74384) HM |
| Near Fort Hill Road 0.2 miles from South Church Street (Tennessee Route 13), on the right when traveling east. |
| | The earthen fort in front of you, known as Fort Hill, was the headquarters of the 13th U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), led by Col. John A. Hottenstein, from the fall of 1863 to the end of the war. The fort defended the army-operated railroad that ran . . . — — Map (db m82963) HM |
| | Established October 19, 1809; Named in honor of Parry W. Humphreys, Judge, Superior Court of Law and Equity, 1807-09; Circuit Judge, Fifth District, Law and Equity, 1809-12 and 1818-36. Member of Congress, 1813-1815. — — Map (db m74380) HM |
| On South Church Street (Tennessee Route 13) at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south on South Church Street. |
| | Six miles northwest, where Dry Creek enters the Tennessee River, this town was first settled from 1800 to 1805. In 1812, it became the county seat of Humphreys County, with the first court meeting in the home of Samuel Parker on Trace Creek. The . . . — — Map (db m52587) HM |
| On East Railroad Street just west of Richland Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On February 24, 1978, two days after a Louisville and Nashville train wrecked on this site, workmen were cleaning up when 22,000 pounds of liquid propane fuel from a derailed tanker car ignited and caused a massive explosion. The blast and resulting . . . — — Map (db m156578) HM |
| On East Railroad Avenue 0.1 miles west of Richland Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | February 24, 1978 at 2:55 p.m., two days after the derailment of twenty-four cars of the L&N railroad, a tanker containing 20,000 gallons of propane gas exploded. The resulting destruction of homes and businesses seems insignificant when measured . . . — — Map (db m156579) HM |
| Near Fort Hill Road 0.2 miles east of South Church Street (Tennessee Route 13), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Fort Waverly was built by Union troops between 1863 and 1864. It protected a newly completed railroad line that connected the important Union supply depot on the Tennessee River in Johnsonville with Federally held Nashville. Confederate guerillas . . . — — Map (db m68920) HM |
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