Champ Ferguson (1821–1865) was born in Kentucky, the oldest of ten children. He moved to White County, Tennessee, in the 1850s. During the Civil War, he showed passionate loyalty to the Southern cause and extreme hatred for the Union. The alleged . . . — — Map (db m157780) HM
Burt-Stark House When Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled south, trying to reach and rally the remnants of his army. On May 2, he spent the night at the home of Col. Armistead . . . — — Map (db m10564) HM
This tablet was placed here to commemorate the last meeting of the Confederate States Cabinet which was held in the Burt House near by directly in front of this stone.
The following cabinet members were present:
Jefferson Davis, President . . . — — Map (db m73949) HM
Champ Ferguson born here in 1821. Guerrilla leader with Confederate leaning, but attacked supporters of both sides thruout Civil War in southern Ky., Tenn. Over 100 murders ascribed to Ferguson alone. Hunted by both CSA and USA. Taken after end of . . . — — Map (db m136581) HM
When the war began, the residents of the Upper Cumberland Plateau were divided in their loyalties. In Cumberland County, for instance, the numbers of Confederate and Union enlistments were about equal.
Some Confederate supporters joined Co. B, . . . — — Map (db m107097) HM
White County, named for Revolutionary War veteran John White, is balanced in the Cumberland Plateau and the Eastern Highland Rim. Karst, a limestone topography pitted by caves, sinkholes, and underground drainage, covers most of the county. It . . . — — Map (db m201281) HM
William Earl Webb was born in White County, Tennessee, on September 17, 1897. His family moved to Bon Air and then Ravenscroft, where Earl worked in the coal mines and played baseball for local teams. He began in the minor leagues in 1921, and . . . — — Map (db m48664) HM
This historical monument honors Joseph Kerr hero of the battle of Kings Mountain who lived and died in White County and those soldiers who fought in the American Revolution and who also made their home in White County *** Erected with deep pride and . . . — — Map (db m107641) WM
The Double Eagle celebrates our Country’s founding. One eagle looks proudly back on a glorious past, the other eagle gazes confidently to an unlimited future---Proudly presented to the people of White County by the members of the White County . . . — — Map (db m107644) WM
Ridge and Valley
The Ridge and Valley physiographic province is an area between the Cumberland Plateau on the west and the Mountains on the east. This 9,000 square mile great valley extends diagonally across east Tennessee from Virginia to . . . — — Map (db m206495) HM
Established 1837; named in honor of Baron Johann De Kalb, the Bavarian officer who accompanied Lafayette to America in 1777. Appointed a Major General in the Continental Army, he was killed at the Battle of Camden in 1780 while commanding Delaware . . . — — Map (db m129993) HM WM
Eastern Highland Rim
The Eastern Highland Rims coupled with the Western Rim is the upland surrounding the Central Basin of Tennessee. It is separated from the Western Rim on the north by the passage of the Cumberland River into Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m206497) HM
Putnam County was a divided land during the Civil War as local residents enlisted in either Federal or Confederate units. It also was a crossroads, as both armies passed through the county numerous times over such important historic roads as the . . . — — Map (db m159208) HM
“Brother against brother” sums up the divided loyalties families faced in White County during the Civil War. In 1862, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s troops marched through the Sparta town square en route north to invade Kentucky. . . . — — Map (db m83165) HM
Samuel "Champ" Ferguson was the most notorious Confederate guerilla leader in the Upper Cumberland mountains. In 1861, he formed a company and began attacking Unionist partisans. Such irregular forces were common on both sides during the war, . . . — — Map (db m270278) HM
Major Richard Fielding Cooke was one of the most prominent pioneer citizens of Putnam County. As a member of the General Assembly in its 1853-54 session he was untiring in his efforts to secure the re-establishment of Putnam County. On February 11, . . . — — Map (db m182566) HM
The Nacoochee slave cabin is one of only a few slave dwellings to survive in Georgia. Built on a stacked stone foundation and framed with hand-hewn timbers and lumber bearing the telltale marks of a sash saw, it saw for more than 150 years on the . . . — — Map (db m173152) HM
Hannah Boone was the youngest child born to Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan Boone.
The Boones were members of the Friends Society (Quakers) and Squire served as first a trustee and then an overseer of the Oley Meeting. The Boones moved to the Yadkin . . . — — Map (db m184060) HM
The circa 1910 Webb Hotel served early commercial lodging in Rock Island, Tennessee. Great Falls Dam, which opened in 1917, resulted in making the community one of Tennessee's premier resort towns. Sunday dinners, the floating Collins River swimming . . . — — Map (db m184522) HM
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