Historical Markers in Harrison, Tennessee

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Historical Markers in Harrison, Tennessee

1 ► Tennessee, Hamilton County, Harrison — 2A 37 — Harrison Academy —

On Tennessee Route 58 at Tyner Lane, on the right when traveling north on State Route 58.

Founded in 1838, this was the first public school in Hamilton County. It stood on a small hill about two miles northeast. Many citizens, later prominent in the life of the state and the community, received their early education here. It closed its . . . — — Map (db m51688) HM

2 ► Tennessee, Hamilton County, Harrison — 2A 38 — Joseph Vann's Town —

On Tennessee Route 58, on the right when traveling south.

About ½ mile N of here, a Chickamauga village was destroyed by Evan Shelby's punitive expedition of 1779. Following his expulsion from Georgia, this wealthy Cherokee chief built a homestead here, with three racetracks, about which a new village . . . — — Map (db m4493) HM

3 ► Tennessee, Hamilton County, Harrison — 2A 36 — Old Harrison —

On State Highway 58 near Hunter Road (State Route 2205), on the right when traveling south.

Hamilton County's first court met at Hasten Poe's tavern near the present Daisy in 1819, later moving to Rawlings' Farm, near the present Dallas. In 1840, a courthouse was built about 500 yards NW of this point, and the new town named for President . . . — — Map (db m4492) HM

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