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Seven miles west are buried soldiers who took part in every war beginning with the Revolution. Among these is Capt. Robert Bean, credited with significant action at the Battle of King's Mountain. — — Map (db m189082) HM
Born November 21, 1899, Jobyna L. Raulston became a silent movie actress, appearing in more than 90 films during her career. She made her stage-acting debut at Wilson Theatre (opera house) in South Pittsburg at age nine. Raulston later studied . . . — — Map (db m16126) HM
Born in Virginia
A Captain in the Indian Wars
A Companion of Daniel Boone
A Tennessee Volunteer
A Hero of King's Mountain
An intrepid Pioneer - Patriot
1750 - 1824
Captain Robert Bean
Born 3 May 1764
Died 17 Nov 1824
Placed by . . . — — Map (db m235124) HM
In 1873, a group of English industrialists, known as the Southern States Coal, Iron and Land Company, purchased large tracts of land, and set out to develop a town, South Pittsburg. From England they brought with them a desire to worship in their . . . — — Map (db m194441) HM
Side A In January 1927, H. Wetter Manufacturing Company, South Pittsburg's largest employer, a unionized company, closed its stove factory. When Wetter tried to reopen with non~union labor, the unions established picket lines. The strike . . . — — Map (db m99022) HM
Jane Simmons Roulston
Born March 27, 1783 Charleston, SC
Died May 12, 1870 Marion Co., Tenn.
Wife of
Colonel James Roulston
Born June 16, 1772 Augusta Co, VA
Died August 7, 1844 Marion Co., Tenn.
Representative from . . . — — Map (db m235125) HM
After the Shiloh Campaign in the spring of 1862, Confederate forces under General Braxton Bragg concentrated in the Chattanooga area. The Federal Army, under General Don Carlos Buell occupied north Alabama. Fearful of a Confederate attack, General . . . — — Map (db m82250) HM
(side 1)
Born July 13, 1920 in South Pittsburg, James “Jim” Thomas Fitz-Gerald, Jr. was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1940. Interested in aviation since childhood, he graduated in the first . . . — — Map (db m82251) HM
has been listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
American Legion clubhouse
built in 1926 — — Map (db m194433) HM
In 1917 no high school for African Americans existed in Marion County. That year Brown McReynolds led a committee to establish an African American high school. The following year a school for African American students opened in a rented space. In . . . — — Map (db m184066) HM
The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join. The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives . . . — — Map (db m47487) HM
