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Dr. Robert A. Broady, a practicing Sevier County physician from 1937 to 1983, began a dairy at this site around the 1940s with one half-breed Jersey cow. A family whose child was suffering from diphtheria needed money for treatment in Knoxville . . . — — Map (db m72720) HM
This cabin is a replica of the Parton home place where Lee and Avie Lee Parton raised Dolly and her 10 brothers and sisters. The replica cabin was constructed by Dolly's brother Bobby, and the interior was reproduced by her mother Avie Lee. Most . . . — — Map (db m14634) HM
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Pigeon Forge was a busy farming community. Merchants, millers, blacksmiths, and other businesses clustered around the Pigeon Forge Mills to support local agriculture. J.A. Householder and Son advertised in . . . — — Map (db m95993) HM
Memories of First Baptist Church Pigeon Forge bring to mind a congregation whose fellowship was warm and rich, like an old homecoming and so much at ease, recalled one former pastor, Dr. William W. Cope. Baptists began meeting on River Road at a . . . — — Map (db m95995) HM
First United Methodist Church of Pigeon Forge was initially part of the Pigeon Forge circuit in the Knoxville District of Holston Conference. Circuit riding preachers served this church, Huskey’s Grove, Pleasant Hill, Walden’s Creek and Wear’s . . . — — Map (db m134046) HM
Col. Samuel Wear built Fort Wear in this vicinity about 1781, the year that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Fort Wear was one of nearly a dozen forts built in the 1780s in Sevier County. Its blockhouse was made from sturdy hand-hewn logs and was . . . — — Map (db m65923) HM
Henderson’s Spring, as listed in early post office records, was a place name in the Pigeon Forge area as early as 1858, just before the Civil War. Elijah Henderson, son of William H. and Mary Catherine Cannon Henderson, and his family developed a . . . — — Map (db m74835) HM
The Church
By 1787, Methodist Circuit Riding Preachers were traveling throughout this vast wilderness region with a Bible and a saddlebag, ministering in frontier settlements. At Middle Creek, open-air revivals known as camp meetings were . . . — — Map (db m134045) HM
Did you know…*Our National bird is of the order falconiformes and first appeared 25 million years ago. It is the only native American eagle & the only eagle species living strictly in North America.
*This regal-looking bird is a superb hunter. . . . — — Map (db m99829) HM
About 3/4 mile southeast, Isaac Love
operated a forge on the site of
the flour mill on Pigeon River
in 1820, making bar iron. Ore came
from an orebank about 3 miles
east, later, pig-iron came from
Sweden Furnace, 5 miles east. Forge
hammer . . . — — Map (db m82600) HM
When Pigeon Forge began transforming itself from a quiet farming community into one focused on tourism, the town adopted the slogan “Action-Packed.” It’s an appropriate description evidenced by the diversity and sheer number of . . . — — Map (db m134050) HM
The Sevier County School Board purchased a piece of land on the old James L. Gobble farm for a brand new Pigeon Forge schoolhouse on September 1, 1917 and paid five hundred dollars. It was located on a knoll northeast of this marker between Middle . . . — — Map (db m74838) HM
Before white settlers arrived, Native Americans called this river “Pigeon” or “woyi.”
Countless numbers of wild passenger pigeons gathered at this natural habitat of abundant beech and oak trees. Their sheer numbers . . . — — Map (db m66133) HM
Pictured is locomotive # 20. It ran along Smoky Mountain Railroad tracks and possibly traveled into Pigeon Forge on the Pigeon River Railroad line just before the line was abandoned about 1929. The Pigeon River Railroad was incorporated in August . . . — — Map (db m65919) HM
If the American Eagle Foundation has an elder statesman, it is indeed Pilgrim. The facility's oldest Bald Eagle, Pilgrim celebrates his 40th birthday in 2008.
Pilgrim's life story begins in New England, where he was born into the wild in 1968. . . . — — Map (db m179299) HM
Pine Grove was once a rural community of sprawling farmlands before it was enveloped by the rapidly expanding vacation city of Pigeon Forge in the early 1980s. The frontier settlement first became known as Fort Wear in the 1780s when Revolutionary . . . — — Map (db m123730) HM
This memorial
is dedicated to
the memory of
the veterans of Sevier County
who gave their lives
to defend our country
World War I
United States Army
Allen, Lavator L. ∙ Atchley, Amos ∙ Blazer, Victor ∙ Cate, Ashley J. . . . — — Map (db m82939) HM
in 1802 Methodist Bishop Francis
Asbury preached in the home
of Mitchel Porter, Revolutionary
Veteran, who lived 2 miles north
of Sevier County and preached
in the newly built log chapel,
400 yards west of here. Shiloh
Cemetery grew up around . . . — — Map (db m17197) HM
in 1802 Methodist Bishop Francis
Asbury preached in the home
of Mitchel Porter, Revolutionary
Veteran, who lived 2 miles north
of Sevier County and preached
in the newly built log chapel,
400 yards west of here. Shiloh
Cemetery grew up around . . . — — Map (db m17199) HM
Was the first full-fledged production mine that helped spawn the settlement of this region in the early 1800's. But the legendary Tennessee tornado came through and uprooted the mining railway system and carried off every bit of coal to West . . . — — Map (db m179298) HM
The center anchor weighed 16.8 US tons, almost twice the weight of the standard port and starboard anchors which weighed 8.84 US tons each. The replica of this anchor will give you an idea how massive the center anchor was on the Titanic. — — Map (db m58478) HM
When the Civil War began, Sevier County Unionists at first operated quietly in secessionist Tennessee. In 1861, they set up a secret garment factory in the second floor of this mill and made cloth for uniforms. They also made shoes for Federal . . . — — Map (db m65704) HM
Col. Samuel Wear settled near the Mouth of Waldens Creek in 1783. He fought at Kings Mountain and later in Indian Wars, was first county court clerk of Sevier County. State of Franklin, and held the same office later under the territorial government . . . — — Map (db m17201) HM
