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On Tennessee Route 64, on the right when traveling east.
Here, and extending 2 miles S.W., occurred the last battle of the Middle Tennessee Campaign. Protecting Bragg's withdrawal, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, with Texas Rangers and the 4th Tenn. Cav., repulsed an attack by the 5th & 6th Ky. Cav., under Col. . . . — — Map (db m24192) HM
On University Avenue, 0.1 miles north of Reed's Lane, on the right when traveling south.
Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education, eight local families initiated a lawsuit to compel Franklin County to desegregate the public school system. The plaintiffs included the Bates, Cameron, Camp, Goodstein, Hill, Sisk, Staten, and . . . — — Map (db m153772) HM
On University Ave., on the right when traveling west.
He was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg. . . . — — Map (db m25437) HM
On University Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Here, before the War Between the States, stood the frame residence of Bishop Leonidas Polk of Louisiana, a principal founder of the University of the South. Here were built in 1866 the first two log cabins of postwar Sewanee by Bishop Charles T. . . . — — Map (db m25430) HM
On Tennessee Avenue just west of University Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
At this site stands Saints Rest, among the three oldest remaining houses in Sewanee. Erected in 1870 by Charlotte Bull Barnwell Elliott, widow of a founding Episcopal bishop from Georgia, Stephen Elliott, it was part of the postwar revival of the . . . — — Map (db m153775) HM
On University Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Founded Jan. 6, 1858, under charter granting perpetual direction by the Episcopal Church in Ala., Ark., Ga., La., Miss., N. Car., S. Car., Tenn., and Texas. Nearby, Leonidas Polk, Bishop of La., later Lt. Gen., C.S.A., laid the cornerstone for the . . . — — Map (db m62036) HM