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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «hancock county» AND «tennessee»

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By Tom Bosse, September 4, 2021
Hancock County, Tennessee Veterans Memorial
RANKED BY RELEVANCE
1 ► Tennessee, Hancock County, Sneedville — Veterans Memorial —
Erected and dedicated in memory of all who have served and to those who gave their lives in the service of our country in all of our conflicts. W.W.II Army, Navy & Marines Alder, Henry L. • Alder, Joseph C. • Adler, Wayland, M. • . . . — — Map (db m181563) WM

2 ► Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, Downtown — Gen. John Sevier, 1745-1815 — By Edgar Wallace Bowlin, Sr., Vermont white marble, 1959 — Kingsport, Sullivan County —
Edgar W. Bowlin (1919-2001), a self-taught artist from Hancock County, was commissioned by the Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Upper East Tennessee, to sculpt this likeness of John Sevier, first governor of Tennessee. It was unveiled in . . . — — Map (db m263591) HM

3 ► Tennessee, Hawkins County, Surgoinsville — Fighting in Hawkins County — Surgoinsville and the War —
Land, timber, and commercial opportunities drew settlers here to the banks of the Holston River. As the Civil War approached, the river's importance in the Tennessee Valley made it a contested transportation route. Hawkins County residents mostly . . . — — Map (db m97667) HM

4 ► Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, North Capitol — Hancock County — Established 1844    222 Square Miles — County Seat Sneedville —
Hancock County is bordered on the north by Virginia and traversed diagonally by the Clinch and a Powell rivers and Copper Ridge. Named for the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock, this rough and mountainous terrain was . . . — — Map (db m201309) HM

5 ► Tennessee, Wilson County, Lebanon, Fiddlers Grove Historic Village — 45 — Livesay Mill —
Livesay Mill was built in 1879 on the Clinch River at Kyles Ford near the Tennessee Virginia State Line in Hancock County. The Grist Mill was water powered using a pair of grinding stones to grind corn for meal and wheat for flour. According to . . . — — Map (db m248882) HM

6 ► Illinois, Hancock County, Fountain Green — St. Simon Cemetery — Looking for Lincoln — 1832 —
Forty acres of land were acquired by the Catholic church in the early 1830's from land in the Military Tract, which had been set aside for the veteran survivors of the War of 1812. Title to this land on the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast . . . — — Map (db m181443) HM
 
    Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
 
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