In 1844, James K. Polk was elected U. S. President. During his term of office, territorial gains from the Mexican War extended the western border of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. — — Map (db m215514) HM
The French Broad River feeds far reaching Douglas Lake, dominant feature of the county named for scholar, statesman, and President Thomas Jefferson. Dandridge, located on this lake covering much of southern half of the county, is named for Martha . . . — — Map (db m201307) HM
Johnson County is entirely within the Cherokee National Park. In this eastern most area of the state, the Appalachian Trail enters Tennessee and, following the geologic design of East Tennessee, proceeds with the a southwestern sweep of Stone and . . . — — Map (db m201318) HM
In spring, dogwood blossoms grace a countryside laden with marble. Within Knox County, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, the Holston and a French Broad rivers converge, forming the Tennessee River. This fortunate geography shaped an industrial . . . — — Map (db m201297) HM
Lake County, in the state’s most northwest corner is named for Reelfoot Lake. The lake was created by a series of earthquakes in 1811-1812 that changed the flow of the Mississippi River here along the active New Madrid Fault Zone. The lake harbors . . . — — Map (db m199689) HM
At Fort Pillow, a Union garrison of black and white Tennessee soldiers was overcome by Confederates. Nearby is Henning, the boyhood home of Pulitzer winner Alex Haley, who sparked a national understanding of African-Americans with his book Roots. . . . — — Map (db m199686) HM
Lawrence County and it’s county seat honor U.S. Navy Captain
James Lawrence who, when mortally wounded in the War of
1812, issued the famous order “Tell the men not to give
up the ship.” David Crockett State Park interprets a grist mill,
the . . . — — Map (db m200226) HM
Let this scarlet oak represent the strength and resilience of the people of African descent, and commemorate Africans who died in the Middle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic Triangle in which upwards of 100 million Africans were transported as . . . — — Map (db m131238) HM
Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Pacific Northwest Expedition, either committed suicide or was murdered here in 1809 at Grinder’s Inn on the Natchez Trace. The Trace traverses the county named for this explorer, office, and statesman. . . . — — Map (db m200225) HM
The Elk River flows across the center of this county named
for Revolutionary "War Major General Benjamin Lincoln. This
territory obtained by an 1806 treaty with Cherokee negotiated
by Secretary of War Henry Dearborn, included land south
the Duck . . . — — Map (db m201121) HM
In 1885 at Knoxville, feminist rights advocate Lizzie Crozier French founded the Ossoli Circle, Tennessee's first women's club. — — Map (db m216083) HM
Loudon County commemorates Fort Loudon, named for the Earl of Loudon, commander in chief of British and American forces in the southern colonies during the French and Indian War. The Tennessee and Little Tennessee rivers divide the arable ground . . . — — Map (db m201298) HM
Macon County has many mineral springs, most famous of which is Red Boiling Springs, named for its red sediment. Noted for medicinal qualities of their waters, these springs were “visited during the hot season by invalids and pleasure seekers. “. . . . — — Map (db m201162) HM
Madison honors President James Madison. By 1840 Jackson was a regional cotton depot and it now serves as a railroad hub for West Tennessee. Pinson Mounds is a prehistoric ceremonial site with the second highest mound in the country. Native James Lee . . . — — Map (db m199696) HM
“The Swamp Fox,” Revolutionary General Francis Marion, is honored by this county, which falls between the Cumberland Plateau and Walden’s Ridge at the southern end of the Sequatchie River Valley. Cherokee Betsy Peck donated the land for the county . . . — — Map (db m201289) HM
Marshall County honors John Marshall, United States Chief Justice from 1801 to 1835. The Duck River and Elk Ridge cross the county in the north and south, respectively cotton growing have way to fine horses, cattle, hogs and sheep that were shipped . . . — — Map (db m200239) HM
In Chattanooga, African-American Mary Morrison protested Jim Crow laws in 1905 by refusing a back seat in a public streetcar and initiating a streetcar boycott. Other African Americans held similar protests in Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, and . . . — — Map (db m216163) HM
Early settlers purchased land here for $3.00 per acre. Agricultural wealth built antebellum plantations such as Clifton Place, its ornate neighbor Rattle and Snap, and Hamilton Place. Columbia, home of President James K. Polk, has drawn more than . . . — — Map (db m200230) HM
In 1922, Moses McKissack was joined in Nashville by his brother Calvin to form McKissack & McKissack. It became the nation's oldest. continually operating, African American-owned architectural firm. — — Map (db m218426) HM
McMinn County Established 1819 430 square miles County Seat Athens
A dozen Cherokee chiefs ceded the Hiwassee District to the
United States by treaty in 1819. McMinn County was named
for Joseph McMinn governor at that time. The treaty . . . — — Map (db m201301) HM
McNairy recalls Judge John McNairy, who was first appointed to the bench by President George Washington, and was finally Judge of the District Court of the United States for Tennessee for more than three decades. This rural area, especially the . . . — — Map (db m199707) HM
Meigs County is long and narrow, wedged between No Pone Ridge on the east and the undulations of the Tennessee River on the west. The Tennessee is joined by the Hiwassee River that cuts across the southern portion of the county. Known for its . . . — — Map (db m201300) HM
In 1929, the Memphis Merchants Clearing Association began to flash commodities quotations on cottonseed
and cottonseed meal throughout the world. — — Map (db m218437) HM
During the Great Depression, many migrated from rural areas to cities in search of work, bringing their beloved "hillbilly" music with them. Some found employment on the Tennessee Valley Authority dams and in other New Deal programs. In West . . . — — Map (db m218431) HM
For thousands of years, this lowland area north of the Tennessee State Capitol was one of the most important sources of mineral water in southeastern North America. Located on the southern border of the Great Eastern Salt Basin, an area that . . . — — Map (db m173818) HM
Construction began on modern airports for Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Knoxville, and the Tri-Cities area in the mid-1930s. — — Map (db m218446) HM
Monroe County is named for President James Monroe. The Cherokee town of Tanasi is the name source for the Tennessee River and the state. Sequoyah, inventor of thenCherokee syllabary, was born in this region that also included Cherokee towns of Chota . . . — — Map (db m201304) HM
Colonel John Montgomery l, believed to have accompanied John Donelson on the River voyage to Fort Nashborough, founded Clarksville in 1784 at the confluence of the Red and Cumberland rivers. Clarksville is named after General George Rogers Clark, . . . — — Map (db m200222) HM
Jasper “Jack” Newton Daniel started in the whiskey business here
at age twelve, and came to own his namesake distillery, the oldest
national registered distillery, shortly after the Civil War. By the
1880s Moore County had fifteen registered . . . — — Map (db m201119) HM
Morgan County, on the Cumberland Plateau, was a place of extreme isolation before the railroad replaced subsistence farming with lumbering and mining in the 1880s. German, Swiss, Polish, and Norwegian peoples have successfully settled in the county . . . — — Map (db m201286) HM
This marker is erected by the Tennessee Historical Commission to honor the memory of these women whose foresight, diligence, generosity and sense of public responsibility assured that all of Capitol Hill was retained for the people of Tennessee as a . . . — — Map (db m174703) HM
The Nashville Convention of 1850 discussed secession of the Southern states, foreshadowing divisions that would violently erupt with the onset of the Civil War. — — Map (db m215550) HM
In 1878, the Nashville Medical College became the
Medical Department of the University of Tennessee. It moved to Memphis in 1911 and became, as the University of Tennessee at Memphis, one of the foremost, comprehensive medical centers in the nation. — — Map (db m215812) HM
A new constitution in 1834 provided for fairer taxation and more opportunities for representation, but continued to deny suffrage for women and took away free African-American male voting rights. — — Map (db m215477) HM
The new voices of labor and women, reflecting a national shift, were heard statewide, even above the din of firmly resurging cities. The three-mile-long, cantilevered, steel bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis was a fitting symbol for Tennessee's . . . — — Map (db m216085) HM
Norris, first dam in TVA's system, began
producing hydroelectric power in 1936. Gradual electrification
of all the rural areas of the state followed. — — Map (db m218451) HM
Enlistment of women and men, training maneuvers, and manufacturing were only a part of Tennessee's war effort, culminating with the "secret city' construction of Oak Ridge. Originally one of three "Manhattan Project" sites, scientists and workers at . . . — — Map (db m218450) HM
Water figures prominently in this “Land of Green Pastures”. The county that takes it’s name from the Obion River has the eastern and northern waters of 25,000 - acre Reelfoot Lake (10,000 acres of open water and 15,000 acres of swamp). Timber and . . . — — Map (db m199690) HM
Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!
-Walt Whitman
Baseball in America has a storied past. Though its modern origins are linked to amateur social clubs in New York and New Jersey in the . . . — — Map (db m175208) HM
At 7:55 on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 - "a date that will live in infamy," in the words of President Frankin D. Roosevelt - a Japanese aircraft bombed American bases at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii, forcing the United States into . . . — — Map (db m206459) HM WM
Between 1935 and 1937, over 200,000 tenant farmers were evicted as a result of government payments to land owners to reduce cropland. — — Map (db m218447) HM
Standing Stone State Park and Forest occupies 11,000 acres of Overton County, named after State Supreme Court Justice John Overton. He was an intimate friend of Andrew Jackson and one of three founders of Memphis. “Standing Stone” refers to a . . . — — Map (db m201282) HM
Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville
constructed major buildings. "Never
uninteresting” was Memphis and Shelby
County's Pyramid of Cheops, situated to
the right of the Parthenon as viewed across
the artificial Lake Watauga. Within . . . — — Map (db m206485) HM
“We have met the enemy and they are ours” is the famous message of Commander Oliver Hazard Perry when he met a British fleet in battle on Lake Erie in 1813. Fossils of shell animals that recall Tennessee’s marine millennium in the Silurian era have . . . — — Map (db m199816) HM
One of the last counties formed, Pickett was named for Howell L. Pickett, state representative from Wilson County in 1879. This remote Highland Rim and Cumberland Plateau area has uncommon rock formations and natural bridges. Pickett State Park land . . . — — Map (db m201284) HM
On the west bank of the Cumberland River, beneath the nearby Jefferson Street Bridge, a large, flat-topped earthen mound once stood as the platform that supported significant ceremonial and domestic buildings associated with the Mississippian . . . — — Map (db m173824) HM
Most of this county lies in the Chilhowee and Unaka Mountains. It is endowed with copper and the Conasauga, Hiwassee, and Ocoee rivers. The county and its seat are named for President James K. Polk and Thomas Hart Benton. At Columbus, resident . . . — — Map (db m201303) HM
Aided by infusion of northern capital, Tennesseans worked hard to recapture economic and cultural momentum lost during the war. African Americans continued gaining ground in the postwar period. Yellow fever epidemics pointed to the need for stronger . . . — — Map (db m215725) HM
With the re-election of President Lincoln in 1864, Tennessee's governor,
Andrew Johnson, was elected Vice-President on November 4. — — Map (db m215627) HM
Tennessee began to recover slowly from the Civil War that had interrupted its arc of material and social progress. During the Reconstruction era African-Americans made overt political gains which would be eroded by the turn of the century. — — Map (db m215714) HM
In 1835, the Cherokee owned prosperous farms, thousands of livestock, many sawmills, blacksmith shops, and cotton gins.
They also had numerous slaves. — — Map (db m215451) HM
Public schools were first established by law in 1823, but were inadequately funded until the direct taxation school support legislation in 1854
The Civil War interrupted this growth. — — Map (db m215283) HM
Named for Israel Putnam, French and Indian And Revolutionary War veteran, Putnam County is located in the Eastern Highland Rin and the Cumberland Plateau. The county was created in 1842, but when an injunction prevented officers from performing . . . — — Map (db m201165) HM
In 1817 or 1818, Ralph E.W. Earl's collection of relics was on display at his Nashville museum. Earl's artifacts were eventually incorporated into collections of the Tennessee Historical Society and later the Tennessee State Museum. — — Map (db m215298) HM
In 1908, after an attorney for timber developers was murdered, the state militia stopped Reelfoot Lake “Night Riders," vigilantes who organized to keep the lake accessible for commercial fishing. — — Map (db m216166) HM
The attack on Pearly Harbor and the rising threat of the Axis powers united the nation in total mobilization for war. Tennessee provided facilities to train almost two million military personnel, with major Army posts at Camp Forrest near Tullahoma, . . . — — Map (db m206461) HM
Rhea County has an especially curvaceous boundary created by man-made Watts Bar Lake and the Tennessee River. The area honors Revolutionary War Battle of King’s Mountain veteran John Rhea, who was also a higher education advocate. The Cherokee, who . . . — — Map (db m201291) HM
Expansive Watts Bar, one of TVA’s six mainstream lakes , extends across Roane, named for Judge Archibald Roane, Tennessee’s second governor. By 1800, Kingston was an important destination at the eastern end of the Walton Road. In 1807, it was the . . . — — Map (db m201292) HM
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