On South Main Street (Tennessee Route 166/243) at Hay Long Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street.
Here on the square, on April 20, 1861, a hundred local men under Capt. Daniel F. Wade were sworn into Confederate service as the Bigby Greys. The women of Mt. Pleasant presented the company with its first flag, in the first Confederate national . . . — — Map (db m75021) HM
On Southport Road at Rainey Street, on the right when traveling west on Southport Road.
In the early 1920s, African Americans Joseph Worley, Andrew Polk, and Finn Wray, along
with the community, city and county governments secured funds to build the “Mt. Pleasant
Colored School.” A Rosenwald facility, it was later named . . . — — Map (db m152135) HM
On Hampshire Pike (U.S. 412) 0.4 miles east of Booker Farm Road, on the right when traveling west.
A veteran of the American Revolutionary War from Georgia, Jonathan Webster purchased this large farm. He came here when the area was a wilderness and was credited with killing the last panther in this area. In 1810 he began this house. Known as the . . . — — Map (db m63120) HM
On South Main Street (Tennessee Route 166) at Hay Long Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street.
(East face)
Erected in memory of our
Confederate soldiers
by the
Bigby Gray Chapter, U.D.C.
The love, gratitude and memory
of the people of the South
shall gild their fame in one
eternal sunshine
(south face) . . . — — Map (db m177546) WM
On North Main Street (Tennessee Route 243) east of Rattle and Snap Drive, on the left when traveling north.
Designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior in 1971. Rattle and Snap was built between 1842 and 1845 by George W. Polk and his wife, Sallie Hilliard. Restored to its original character and furnished with period . . . — — Map (db m28660) HM
