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Tennessee AMVETS dedicates
this memorial to all veterans
living or deceased who have
honorably served their country
that freedom may reign
December 15, 2001
Governor
Don Sundquist
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The town of Bristol was planned and laid out by Joseph Rhea Anderson in 1852. Development began on this site in 1853 with the erection of Anderson's combined home and business. The building served as the community's first store, post office, bank, . . . — — Map (db m22991) HM
Bristol has long been known as a hub for traditional mountain music. In the summer of 1927, Ralph Peer, a record producer from Victor Talking Machine Company, traveled to Bristol and set up a portable recording studio four blocks east of this . . . — — Map (db m24031) HM
Landmark Bridge
Between Two States
Erected 1910
Placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior
September 8,1988
Marker in memory of Mattie and Jim Owens
Bristol Historical . . . — — Map (db m22993) HM
In 1927 Ralph Peer, a record producer with the Victor Talking Machine Company, set up a temporary music studio on this site. Over the next 12 days he recorded 76 songs by 19 artists, including the Stonemans, and the first recordings of Jimmie . . . — — Map (db m82956) HM
The Great Valley of Tennessee, the Southern Appalachian breadbasket, stretches from Bristol to Chattanooga and with its major turnpikes and railroads was strategically vital to both North and South during the war.
The “better half of . . . — — Map (db m143534) HM
On this site was formerly located the Bristol general Confederate Hospital. It was housed in the former Exchange Hotel erected in 1858 (later known as the Nickels House). The building was demolished in about 1898. Sick and wounded soldiers were . . . — — Map (db m157955) HM
During the Civil War, Bristol was a strategic location on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. The Confederate Medical Corps established hospitals in the town, which soon became an important medical center. Wounded soldiers were brought by rail . . . — — Map (db m82957) HM
Born in Wales, 1719, he came here about 1771. A veteran of Braddock's Campaign and Lord Dunmore's War, he commanded a successful expedition against the Chickamauga towns, 1779. Member of the North Carolina State Senate, 1781, and brigadier general . . . — — Map (db m22995) HM
This fort was erected on high ground about two blocks south, in 1771, for the protection of the pioneer settlers. From it went forces to the battles of Point Pleasant, Long Island Flats and Chickamauga Towns. Here also occurred the preliminary . . . — — Map (db m82958) HM
(North Face)
Erected August 16, 1971
Honoring
A.P. Carter
Sara Carter
Maybelle Carter
Jimmie Rodgers
Who recorded the first Country and Western music to be distributed nationwide in Bristol, Tennessee on August 2, 1927
(West . . . — — Map (db m24036) HM
1/2 mile north, in 1784, Col. James King, Revolutionary veteran who was at Yorktown, built an ironworks at the mouth of Steel's Creek. A later associate was Governor William Blount. With the King Ironworks was also the first nail factory in the . . . — — Map (db m22911) HM
Erected in 2010 in honor of Joseph Rhea Anderson (1819-1888) who founded the original Town of Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee in 1852. Both sides of the town were given recognition on the official records of the time. He erected the first building in . . . — — Map (db m82959) HM
Colonel Isaac Shelby was a leader of frontier American forces resisting British rule. British officer Patrick Ferguson was aware of Shelby's presence in the area and sent out a warning, if the rebels did not desist in their opposition to British . . . — — Map (db m135593) HM
Jimmie Rodgers, known as “The Singing Brakeman” and “the Blue Yodeler,” was born in Meridian, Mississippi on September 8, 1897. After working as a brakeman for the railroad, a bout of tuberculosis forced Rodgers from the . . . — — Map (db m23145) HM
Born in a house 300 yards east of this road, Oct. 23, 1857, he held nearly every public office in his county, besides being three times member of the General Assembly. While
Speaker of the State Senate, he became Governor to succeed James B. . . . — — Map (db m157959) HM
It crosses the highway here. Originally a branch of the Great War and Trading Path, it was later an important route from Virginia to the west. The first mail route between Richmond and Washington ran over it. Many notables used it, including Andrew . . . — — Map (db m157952) HM
Located 4 miles to the east in Bristol, Tennessee. Founded in 1867 by the Reverend James King and other Presbyterian leaders to provide "a thorough classical and scientific training, combined with moral and religious instruction." Since 1915 this . . . — — Map (db m22913) HM
Ralph Peer came to Bristol in search of large personalities who would make a strong
impression on Victor's new higher fidelity recordings, and discovered one of country
music's strongest in “Blue Yodeler” Jimmie Rodgers. Jimmie's . . . — — Map (db m157957) HM
Established 1867 by the Presbyterian Church on land donated by Rev. James King “to give
the benefits of a Christian classical education to young men of limited means.”
The Rev. James Doak Tadlock, D. D., was the first President . . . — — Map (db m157954) HM
Under the massive oak 0.3 mi. SW, Col. John Pemberton assembled his command in late September, 1780 for service against the British. Joined by units from Virginia, they marched to Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga; thence the whole force, under Col. . . . — — Map (db m157949) HM
Ralph S. Peer was born in 1892 in Independence, Missouri. He grew up in the record business, working in the shop where his father sold phonographs and recordings for the Columbia Graphophone Company.
After service in WWI, as a talent scout for . . . — — Map (db m23683) HM
General Evan Shelby erected a fort here in 1771 that sheltered and protected pioneers and sent victorious forces to the battles of Point Pleasant, Long Island Flats and Chicamauga Towns
Here was conceived by Shelby, Campbell and Sevier, an . . . — — Map (db m35794) HM
The Bristol Municipal Stadium was built with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration between 1934 and 1937. The stone came from nearby Beaver Creek. A dedication ceremony was held on October 8, 1936, before the Tennessee High and Science . . . — — Map (db m45941) HM
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