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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Knoxville, Tennessee
Maryville is the county seat for Blount County
Knoxville is in Blount County
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About 2 miles northeast. Attacked Oct. 13, 1788, by 300 Indians under John Watts, the half breed. Defenders held out until ammunition was exhausted. 28 were taken prisoner; 17 slaughtered and bodies burned. Thereafter the locality was called the . . . — — Map (db m90458) HM
General Robert R. Neyland
1892~1962
From 1927 to 1930, this site was the home of General Robert R. Neyland, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s legendary football coach and a key commander in the Pacific theater during World War II. . . . — — Map (db m152121) HM
Internationally acclaimed poet and writer Nikki Giovanni was born to Knoxville College graduates Gus and Yolande Giovanni on June 7, 1943, at Old Knoxville General Hospital. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, but Nikki and her sister, Gary Ann, spent . . . — — Map (db m167276) HM
The hands that once were raised in strife
now clasp a brother's hand;
and long as flows the tide of life —
in peace, in toil, when war is rife —
we shall as brother's stand,
one heart, one soul for our free land.
J. . . . — — Map (db m150869) WM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. . . . — — Map (db m100523) HM
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, . . . — — Map (db m151245) HM WM
In 1931 to tap the market newly created by the evolution of transportation and mobility of Americans, brothers Henry and Elmer Nickle of Powell, Tennessee, opened a gasoline filling station in the unusual shape of an airplane. The airplane is one of . . . — — Map (db m123112) HM
Italian-born sculptor Albert Milani's majestic marble eagles crown the Art Deco-style Tennessee Supreme Court building across the street, constructed in the early 1930s. Tennessee marble, perhaps Knoxville's most famous natural resource, has been . . . — — Map (db m134878) HM
Site of original Andrew Johnson Hotel constructed in 1927
Restoration by Aetna Casualty & Surety Company 1985.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Dept. of Interior — — Map (db m4110) HM
Archie Campbell
Archie Campbell, a beloved comedian in the country music family, launched his career as an announcer for WNOX in 1937. After a brief stint on Chattanooga radio and service in World War II, Campbell returned to Knoxville and . . . — — Map (db m118603) HM
Fort Dickerson came under attack only once during the Civil War. in a prelude to the 1863 Siege of Knoxville, Federal and Confederate cavalry fought for possession of these heights. Its lofty presence, however, served as a deterrent until the end of . . . — — Map (db m4316) HM
About 3 miles NW, on Plumb Creek, Nicholas Ball, trapper and Long Hunter, established a camp which was used by westbound emigrants. Several years after founding this camp he was killed by Indians near Wells Station, Dec 23 1793. — — Map (db m32615) HM
A large Federal earthwork was located back of Vine Avenue between Gay and Walnut Streets when General James Longstreet besieged Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. The Federal defense line ran along this ridge from Fort Hill, (Surrey St. and Saxton . . . — — Map (db m133841) HM
Internationally acclaimed modern artist Beauford Delaney was born in 1901 in a small wooden house on Knoxville’s East Vine Street. His father was a Methodist preacher and ran a barber shop to make ends meet. Beauford always loved to draw, even in . . . — — Map (db m152124) HM
Untitled (New York City), circa 1945
Watercolor on Paper, 15.5 x 22.4 inches, Knoxville Museum of Art
2014 purchase with funds provided by the KMA Collectors Circle
Internationally acclaimed modern artist Beauford Delaney was born in 1901 . . . — — Map (db m178114) HM
Beauford Delaney
1901-1979
Beauford Delaney is considered one of the greatest abstract painters of the 20th century. Battling poverty, racial prejudice and mental illness, he achieved acclaim for his expressive portraits, cityscapes and . . . — — Map (db m167278) HM
Bleak House, the home of Robert Houston Armstrong and Louisa Franklin Armstrong, is an Italianate-style mansion completed in 1858. During the Siege and Battle of Knoxville, November 17–December 4, 1863, the house was Confederate Gen. James . . . — — Map (db m69488) HM
Built in 1792, this was one of the first frame houses west of the Alleghenies. It served as both the residence of William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, and as capitol of that territory, now the State of Tennessee. Born . . . — — Map (db m82200) HM
Alfred Buffat (1840-1908) came to Knox County at the age of 10 with his parents from Switzerland in search of religious tolerance and economic opportunity.
In 1851, the water milling enterprise was started to supplement the Buffat family's farm . . . — — Map (db m195475) HM
This mound was constructed by Native Americans between A.D. 900-1100 and contains the remains of individuals who lived in nearby settlements. The mound was reduced in height
due to agriculture and excavations in the early 19th Century. Another . . . — — Map (db m167267) HM
Burn Memorial To Febb Ensminger Burn and her son, Harry, who made Tennessee the state whose ratification of the 19th Amendment enfranchised American women - a giant step toward a more perfect union. This memorial stands as a reminder: Every . . . — — Map (db m177971) HM
Born circa 1862 in McMinn County, Tennessee, Moses Brownlow Byington Sr., moved to the Beaver Ridge community circa 1883. He was instrumental in establishing the town of Byington and two major landmarks: the Byington L & N Railroad Station around . . . — — Map (db m114040) HM
Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Kermit "Buck" Ewing graduated from Carnegie Mellon University where he later taught art. Ewing started the University of Tennessee's visual arts program after moving to Knoxville in 1948. The department began with 35 . . . — — Map (db m134900) HM
Husband of Janice Means McMillan Fort Walton Beach, Florida Only son of Charles T. and Nora Long McMillan Corryton, Tennessee, Born Oct. 4, 1951 A Tennessee volunteer who gave his life while attempting to rescue 53 American hostages in Iran, on . . . — — Map (db m134886) HM
Recognized as one of Knoxville’s most influential artists of the early 20th century, Catherine Wiley was born near Knoxville in Coal Creek (later Lake City, now Rocky Top). Her father worked in the coal industry before moving the family to Knoxville . . . — — Map (db m134895) HM
Morning, 1921, Oil on canvas, 47 x 41 inches Knoxville Museum of Art; 1972 purchase by the Women’s Committee of the Dulin Gallery.
Recognized as one of Knoxville’s most influential artists of the early 20th century, Catherine . . . — — Map (db m223855) HM
About ½ mile north was this early fortified settlement. Here on Sept 25, 1793, Alexander Cavett and 12 other settlers were massacred by a Cherokee war party under Doublehead, one of the more savage chiefs of the tribe. — — Map (db m32688) HM
Born of German parents who settled in the area before the Civil War, Charles Christopher Krutch spent most of his life in Knoxville, the family home not far from here at 914 East Hill Avenue. Without formal training, Krutch worked throughout his . . . — — Map (db m134896) HM
Born of German parents who settled in the area before the Civil War, Charles Christopher Krutch spent most of his life in Knoxville, the family home not far from here at 914 East Hill Avenue. Without formal training, Krutch worked throughout his . . . — — Map (db m177960) HM
Untitled, circa 1930-1934
Oil on canvas board
Knoxville Museum of Art, 2009 gift of Dr. and Mrs. William J. McCoy III
Born of German parents who settled in the area before the Civil War, Charles Christopher Krutch spent most of his . . . — — Map (db m222649) HM
Built in 1903, the Southern Depot became a venue for street musicians. Among them was Charlie Oaks, a blind man who some country music historians consider the first professional country musician.
One of his best-known songs, New Market Train . . . — — Map (db m134890) HM
Chisholm's Tavern was the name of a tavern (more defined as an Inn) in the 1790s located near the site of the Dwight Kessel Garage. The tavern was established by John Chisholm, an early settler important to the development of Knoxville. Chisholm was . . . — — Map (db m118582) HM
This building was used as a hospital for Confederate forces from their occupation of Knoxville until September, 1863; thereafter similarly by the Federals. It was formerly the main building for the Tennessee School for the Deaf, which was located on . . . — — Map (db m107949) HM
What Brought the Armies of the Blue and the Gray to Knoxville?
Knoxville was a pro-Confederate town of some 3700 persons when Tennessee seceded from the Union in June of 1861. It was the commercial and light manufacturing center of East . . . — — Map (db m82201) HM
Signed by Gov. Wm. Blount and forty one Cherokee Chiefs and Warriors. On the site of the home of Gov. Blount, corner of Hill Ave. and State Street, Knoxville Tenn. July 2, 1791 — — Map (db m81209) HM
During the Confederate War, 1861-1865, more than 1600 Confederate soldiers and about 50 Federal prisoners were buried here. About 20 Confederate veterans have been buried here since the war. The tall monument was erected in 1892 by the Ladies' . . . — — Map (db m84327) HM
Major General E. Kirby Smith of the Confederate Army established Camp Van Dorn 1 1/2 to 2 miles west of Knoxville Depot, near the banks of a little stream, Third Creek. It operated from March 28 through July 28, 1862. Most Georgia Confederate . . . — — Map (db m143034) HM
Market Street on Monday morning, Knoxville, Tennessee. In this year 1951. Suttree with his parcel of fish going past the rows of derelict trucks piled with produce and flowers, an atmosphere rank with country commerce, a reek of farmgoods in the . . . — — Map (db m134192) HM
Lucius enjoyed passing through the ancient three-storey, block-long, brick Market House, its arched ceiling looming over them, a line of rough little tables running down the spine of the building where country women sold eggs, shelled walnuts, . . . — — Map (db m134191) HM
Brig. Gen. William P. Sanders, using dismounted cavalry to hold off the Confederate advance from the west, was fatally wounded on this ridge, Nov. 18, 1863, dying the next day. — — Map (db m76541) HM
U.S. General William P. Sanders died in the bridal suite of this building which was the Lamar House hotel at the time of the Civil War. On the previous afternoon Sanders was mortally wounded as his cavalry fought on Kingston Road, delaying the . . . — — Map (db m118761) HM
During a federal lawsuit in 1952, the University of Tennessee opened enrollment in the graduate and law programs of the institution to African Americans. Gene Mitchell Gray enrolled in graduate school, and Lincoln Blakeney enrolled in the College . . . — — Map (db m118342) HM
Globally influential singer-songwriter Dolly Parton began her broadcasting career in 1956 nearby at 319 North Gay Street, which was then the site of WIVK's AM studio. She was a 10-year-old girl from nearby Sevier County whose uncle Bill Owens would . . . — — Map (db m223859) HM
Private Collection
Peregrine Falcon, 1943, Tempura on Board
A local naturalist and self-taught artist, Earl Henry is often better known as the Knoxville dental officer who perished on the ill-fated USS Indianapolis at the end of World . . . — — Map (db m223864) HM
Private Collection
Red-winged Blackbird, 1942 or 1943, Tempura on Board
A local naturalist and self-taught artist, Earl Henry is often better known as the Knoxville dental officer who perished on the ill-fated USS Indianapolis at . . . — — Map (db m223865) HM
At a small store on Market Square, a Knoxville record merchant helped launch the most famous career in musical history. Sam Morrison of Bell Sales Company chose to promote Elvis Presley's That's All Right, Mama by playing it on loudspeakers to the . . . — — Map (db m118602) HM
GM2 (Seal) Carter M. Dean •
CPL. James D. Travis •
LT Charles H. Pilkington •
Sgt. George E. Clark, Jr. •
LT Frederick M. Rader III •
SP-4 George E. Clark, Jr. •
SGT. William B. Bishop II •
CWO2 Stephen M. Hiscock •
2ND LT William H. . . . — — Map (db m101375) WM
Confederate chaplain, poet of the Confederacy, author of the requiem of the Lost Cause, “The Conquered Banner,” written at Knoxville soon after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865, and pastor of the Immaculate . . . — — Map (db m115499) HM
On this site stood Warner Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the first
African American Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the site of the first school for African Americans in east Knoxville. Founded in 1845, it was reported to . . . — — Map (db m167284) HM
First Baptist Church Built 1924 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m3786) HM
Founded 1792, with James White, John Adair and George McNutt founding elders. White, who gave the ground for the church, is buried here, as are Samuel Carrick, first pastor and president of Blount College, now University of Tennessee, William . . . — — Map (db m167274) HM
Established in 1788, this fort was
used as a depot of supplies for
the Cumberland Guard, the militia
organization which supplied armed
protection for parties of emigrants
to the Cumberland Settlements,
later the town of Nashborough,
now . . . — — Map (db m95270) HM
"The Hill," dear to University of Tennessee alumni, was protected by a battery of Federal cannon and a brigade of infantry during Longstreet's siege of Knoxville, in Nov., 1863. A line of entrenchments ran across the west and south slopes of the . . . — — Map (db m101787) HM
–1863–
• One of sixteen Union Army earthen forts and battery positions protecting Knoxville, Nov. 1863–May 1865.
• Named for Capt. Jonathan C. Dickerson, 112th Illinois Mounted Infantry who was killed near Cleveland, TN . . . — — Map (db m4319) HM
On November 4, 1863, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from Chattanooga to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's garrison at Knoxville. Burnside confronted Longstreet below Knoxville, then withdrew on November 12. . . . — — Map (db m100512) HM
Linking with other hills south of the river, this Union position was a major factor in the defense of Knoxville. Occupied on Nov. 1, 1863, by the 2nd Brig. (Col. Daniel Cameron), 3rd Div. XXIII corps, its gunfire broke up an attempt on Nov. 15-16 . . . — — Map (db m84480) HM
This Federal work was a major factor in the defense of Knoxville against Lt. Gen. Longstreet's assault in November, 1863. The fort and neighboring hills were manned by the 2nd Brigade(Cameron), 3rd Div., XXIII Corps, which repulsed by fire Wheeler's . . . — — Map (db m62514) HM
Fort Dickerson was one of the sixteen Federal forts and battery emplacements constructed around Knoxville during the Civil War. Temporary earthworks were thrown up here in November 1863. Designed by Capt. Orlando M. Poe, Chief Engineer of the Army . . . — — Map (db m4315) HM
(Preface) On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's garrison in Knoxville. Burnside . . . — — Map (db m167268) HM
(preface)
On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s garrison in Knoxville. Burnside confronted . . . — — Map (db m82209) HM
Fort Sanders, a bastioned earthwork on the ridge two blocks north of here, was the scene of Gen. James Longstreet's unsuccessful assault upon the Federal defenses of Knoxville at dawn, Nov. 29, 1863. — — Map (db m69491) HM
To the memory of the Confederate soldiers
Who fell in the assault on Fort Sanders
November 29, 1863.
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your glorious . . . — — Map (db m76504) WM
Fort Dickerson to the west and Fort Stanley to the east were the center two of four fortified heights held by the Federals south of the river during the siege of Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. Maj. Gen. Jos. Wheeler C.S.A., made a vain effort to . . . — — Map (db m62515) HM
Fountain City United Methodist Church Founded in 1825In 1824, E.F. Sevier, grandson of Gov. John Sevier, came to this area as a Methodist circuit rider. By 1825, a plot of ground was secured and Fountain Head became a "preaching place." A log . . . — — Map (db m32350) HM
Near this spot in 1869 was the early Knoxville home of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the English-born author of The Secret Garden, Sarah Crewe, and Little Lord Fauntleroy, who moved to Knoxville with her family when she was 15. When Frances . . . — — Map (db m134855) HM
For six months in 1982, the world visited Knoxville's Second Creek valley. The World's Fair attracted more than 11 million visitors to the city. An amusement park was near the mouth of Second Creek and international pavilions filled 70 acres between . . . — — Map (db m166888) HM
July 4, 1793, was a gala day in the tiny Territorial Capital. The Gazette ecstatically reported that, at 2 p.m., the newly arrived Federal troops paraded, and fired a cannon to salute; at 4 o'clock, all the citizens partook of an elegant . . . — — Map (db m118451) HM
Gay Street and The Civil Rights Movement In late 1959 Knoxville College Students initiated the efforts to desegregate the city’s lunch counters and movie theaters in downtown Knoxville. They held sit-ins at the lunch counters and stand-ins at . . . — — Map (db m177969) HM
Side A Born in Cates Landing, Tennessee, on August 31, 1893, Clifton B. Cates attended school in Tiptonville and the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri. While excelling in varsity football and baseball, he received his law degree . . . — — Map (db m101786) HM
John Sevier, ”Nolichucky Jack,” Sept. 23, 1744, Sept. 24, 1815.
Pioneer, Soldier, Statesman and one of the founders of the Republic.
(west side) The typical pioneer who conquered the wilderness and fashioned the State. . . . — — Map (db m134861) HM WM
Herbert Hoover was born and lived in the Homberg area until he graduated from UT in 1934. He became the chief test pilot for MACA and soon after Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, Hoover became the . . . — — Map (db m165902) HM
The Hubris Building is in the National register's Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District. This area flourished during the shipping and migration boom of the late 1700's and early 1800's, due to its proximity to the railroads. The building . . . — — Map (db m134892) HM
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
Moonlight Seashore, 1923, Oil on Canvas
Hugh Tyler who studied art at the Pratt Institute and in Europe, worked form a studio in the Fort Sanders neighborhood and is best remembered for his . . . — — Map (db m223867) HM
Upon this spot stood the house of Alexander Cavett who was murdered together with two men and the Cavett family of twelve, September 25th, 1793, after heroic resistance against a combined Creek and Cherokee force numbering one thousand warriors, . . . — — Map (db m109336) HM
They turned aside into a darker street, where the fewer faces looked more secret, and came into the odd, shaky light of Market Square. It was almost empty at this hour, but here and there, along the pavement streaked with horse urine, a wagon . . . — — Map (db m134190) HM
The Foundation for this house was laid by Governor John Sevier on a block bought from Knoxville founder James White in 1797. James Park, pioneer merchant and Knoxville's second mayor, completed the main house in 1812. His son, Dr. James Park . . . — — Map (db m118398) HM
Born in Knoxville November 27, 1909, Agee was well-known and respected in the fields of journalism, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and film. He won a Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1957 for A Death in the Family, a novel based on his youth in . . . — — Map (db m101785) HM
Erected the city's first dwelling in this block in 1786. White's Fort was later constructed to surround the house.
Knoxville was named for Henry Knox, Washington's Secretary of War, and was chosen by Governor William Blount as capital of the . . . — — Map (db m82210) HM
Marble Springs was the farmstead of John Sevier. Tennessee’s first governor (1796–1801 and 1803–1809). While Sevier used the farm as a retreat where he entertained guests, it was originally a frontier station used by immigrants on the . . . — — Map (db m62516) HM
Journal Arcade Building Knoxville Tennessee This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Built 1924 — — Map (db m177957) HM
Died in Russellville, Ala. October 7, 1836
(south side)Historical Katherine Sherrill Sevier, Bonny Kate, came when a girl with her parents, to Tennessee from North Carolina; married John Sevier August 14, 1780 when she was 26 years . . . — — Map (db m134862) HM
This monument erected by veterans of the war with Spain and members of their auxiliary as a memorial to their departed comrades of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps – every one of them a volunteer – who served from 1898 to 1902 in Cuba, . . . — — Map (db m134880) WM
(north side) Knoxville, previously the capital of the Southwest Territory, 1792-1796, was designated as the first capital of the State of Tennessee by the Constitutional Convention of 1796. Near this site the first General Assembly of the . . . — — Map (db m134871) HM
Mountain Dew was born right here in Knoxville at 1921 East Magnolia Avenue. This area is the former home of Hartman Beverage, owned and operated by Barney and Ally Hartman. Here in 1948 the brothers created and trademarked the soft drink Mountain . . . — — Map (db m178113) HM
This liberal arts institution was opened in Knoxville by the United Presbyterian Church in 1875. It crowns the ridge from which the main batteries of Lt. James Longstreet's attacking force shelled the Federal Fort Sanders about 1800 yards to the . . . — — Map (db m107952) HM
Civil War Knoxville
In an 1861 referendum, 81 percent of East Tennessee voters rejected secession. Many in Knoxville, the region's largest city, supported the Union. During the Civil War, 30,000 East Tennesseans joined the U.S. Army. When . . . — — Map (db m100498) WM
In April 1861, before Tennessee seceded, Knoxville was deeply divided. Excited residents gathered in the streets and held rallies to sway public opinion. These divisions were never more visible then than during simultaneous Union and Confederate . . . — — Map (db m100524) HM
Knoxville's first Market House, opened on Main Avenue between Walnut and Market Streets in 1816, and the second and third on this square in 1854 and 1897, long served for the sale of farm products and as a colorful center of civic life. In 1863-64 . . . — — Map (db m160850) HM
Knoxville's Old Custom House
You are standing in front of Knoxville's first federal building, the Old Custom House (1874). The Custom House originally housed the federal court, excise offices, post office, and later, Tennessee Valley . . . — — Map (db m118517) HM
Krutch Park is the legacy of Charles Krutch, the last survivor of an eccentric and talented family. When they first arrived in Knoxville in the 1850's the proud German clan spelled their name Krütsch (the name is pronounced Krootch). Several of the . . . — — Map (db m118446) HM
In 1867, by resolution of the U.S. Congress, Tennessee became eligible to designate an institution to teach areas of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts and to receive the proceeds from the sale of federal land as prescribed by the . . . — — Map (db m118354) HM
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