Fort Adair
1E 24FORT ADAIREstablished in 1788, this fort wasused as a depot of supplies forthe Cumberland Guard, the militiaorganization which supplied armedprotection for parties of emigrantsto...
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- fountain city
- knoxville
- tennessee
- nashville
- nashborough
Ball Camp
1E 32BALL CAMPAbout 3 miles NW, on Plumb Creek,Nicholas Ball, trapper and LongHunter, established a camp which wasused by westbound emigrants.Several years after founding thiscamp he was killed by...
- nicholas ball
- plumb creek
- 1793
- wells station
- knoxville
- tennessee
Loveville
1E 37LOVEVILLERobertus Love, a companion of Gen.James White, who founded Knoxville,established the village in thisarea in 1797 where he had built afulling mill in 1792. Several ofthe...
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- knoxville
- tennessee
- 1797
- james white
David Glasgow Farragut
1E 97DAVID GLASGOWFARRAGUT1801-1870A native of Stony Point (Low's Ferry) DavidFarragut moved to New Orleans at the age ofthree. At the age of ten, he began a careerwith the U.S. Navy; ca....
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- admiral
- navy
- knoxville
- tennessee
- new orleans
- civil war
Fort Dickerson 1E 79
1E 79FORT DICKERSONThis Federal work was a majorfactor in the defense of Knoxvilleagainst Lt. Gen. Longstreet's assaultin November, 1863. The fort andneighboring hills were manned bythe...
- fort dickerson
- civil war
- 1863
- knoxville
- tennessee
- longstreet
Battle of Campbell's Station
1E 73BATTLE OF CAMPBELL'S STATIONThe Federal Gen. Ambrose Burnside,pursued by Gen. James Longstreetfrom Lenoir's Station via Concord,eluded an attempt by Gen. LafayetteMcLaws, C.S.A., coming from...
- civil war
- burnside
- campbell's station
- longstreet
- mclaws
- tennessee
- concord
- knoxville
- 1863
Longstreet's Headquarters
1E 66LONGSTREET'SHEADQUARTERS"Bleak House," the home of RobertHouston Armstrong, was used asthe headquarters of Lt. Gen. JamesLongstreet and Maj. Gen. LafayetteMcLaws, C.S.A., during the...
- civil war
- bleak house
- knoxville
- tennessee
- longstreet
- 1863
- mclaws
Battery Wiltsie
1E 83BATTERY WILTSIEA large Federal earthwork was located backof Vine Avenue between Gay and Walnut Streetswhen General James Longstreet besiegedKnoxville, Nov. 17- Dec. 4, 1863....
- civil war
- 1863
- knoxville
- tennessee
- longstreet
- fort sanders
- fort hill
First Presbyterian Church
1E 38FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFounded in 1792, with James White,John Adair and George McNuttfounding elders. White, who gavethe ground for the Church, isburied here, as are Samuel Carrick,first...
- presbyterian
- church
- samuel carrick
- william blount
- james white
- knoxville
- tennessee
- john adair
- george mcnutt
- blount college
- university o...
John Sevier Farmstead
1E 80JOHN SEVIER FARMSTEADMarble Springs was the farmsteadof John Sevier, Tennessee's firstgovernor (1796-1801 and 1803-1809).While Sevier used the farm as aretreat where he entertained...
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- tennessee
- governor
- knoxville
- marble springs
James Rufus Agee
1E 101JAMES RUFUS AGEEBorn in Knoxville November 27, 1909,Agee was well-known and respectedin the fields of journalism, poetry,fiction, non-fiction and film. Hewon a Pulitzer Prize...
- james agee
- pulitzer prize
- author
- fort sanders
- knoxville
- tennessee
Spectacular Way Bandstand
SPECTACULAR WAY BANDSTAND DEDICATED BY FRIENDS IN MEMORY OF LOU ALEXANDER MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR ALAMEDA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION 1955 - 1982 16 JUNE 1983 Submitted by Sheila Paske
- pleasanton
- california
- bay area
- barn
- fairground
- bandstand
Blue Star Memorial Highway
Submitted by Jenny Heard
- cle elum
- washington
- garden club
- blue star
Edward A. Brakenridge House
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1992 Edward A. Brakenridge House Ira A. Boynton, Designer & Builder (attributed), 1892 Arriving in Berkeley from Massachusetts, Edward Brakenridge bought...
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- california
- bay area
- mental health care
- massachusetts
- carpenter esthetic
Rock Hill Time Capsule
TIME CAPSULE Placed here on the Centennial of The City of Rock Hill December 24, 1992 To be opened on the Bicentennial.
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- south carolina
- centennial
- time capsule
John Balshaw River Walk Bridge
CITY OF PETALUMA RIVERWALK PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE DEDICATED DURING THE 1989 RIVER FESTIVAL IN RECOGNITION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TURNING BASIN TO THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF PETALUMA ...
- petaluma
- california
- first place
- turning basin
- light vehicular
Bowen's Inn/Higgins Grocery
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1985 BOWEN’S INN/HIGGINS GROCERY Circa 1854 This building, thought to be Berkeley’s oldest remaining structure, originally stood on the Contra Costa Road,...
Spenger's Fish Grotto
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 2001 SPENGER’S FISH GROTTO c. 1890 Clam chowder, baked beans and 10¢ beer—these and fish dinners drew crowds to fabled Spenger’s. It all began in the 1860s...
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- california
- bay area
- spenger
- hemingway
- fish
- grotto
- chowder
Forts Dickerson and Stanley
1E 74FORTS DICKERSON AND STANLEYFort Dickerson to the west andFort Stanley to the east were thecenter two of four fortifiedheights held by the Federals southof the river during the...
- fort dickerson
- civil war
- 1863
- knoxville
- tennessee
- wheeler
- fort stanley
Fort Sanders
1E 69FORT SANDERSFort Sanders, a bastionedearthwork on the ridge twoblocks north of here, wasthe scene of Gen. JamesLongstreet's unsuccessfulassault upon the Federaldefenses of Knoxville atdawn,...
- fort sanders
- longstreet
- civil war
- 1863
- knoxville
- tennessee