First named Point Isabel. Settled about 1800 by pioneers from the Carolinas and Virginia. During the Civil War the Union army, in 1863, set up a troop rendezvous and supply base here as a prelude to East Tennessee campaign of Gen. Ambrose E. . . . — — Map (db m67874) HM
Before Boy Scouts of America was organized, 1910, a troop of 15 had been formed here, spring of 1908, by Mrs. Myra Greeno Bass. Using the official handbook of English scouting, she guided them hiking and camping, like scouting today. Known as Eagle . . . — — Map (db m214781) HM
The author of such celebrated Appalachian novels as The Dollmaker and Hunter's Horn; social histories include Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland. Born in Wayne County, Arnow spent most of her childhood in Burnside. Moved to . . . — — Map (db m67876) HM
Old Burnside
Point Isabel, later renamed for Union General Ambrose E. Burnside, grew up around the Cumberland River. Beginning in 1833 steamboats like the Rowena (top), were a common site on the river and one of the county's primary forms . . . — — Map (db m244576) HM
