Florida Hammock Trail

This trail leads through hammock land. The word hammock was an Indian term. This is the way the land looked when it was the free domain of the Indians, the home of wildlife and birds.

The land had to be cleared ...

Forks of Little Pigeon Church

100 yds, N. E. this Baptist Church, established 1789, was reportedly the first of any denomination in Sevier County. Spencer Clack, Revolutionary veteran was first church clerk; Richard Wood; first pastor until his death in 1831. The Church moved to ...

Sgt. Ronald M. Randazzo

Desert Storm

So we do not forget to honor Sgt. Ronald M. Randazzo and the men and women of Desert Storm 1991.

Give not one inch of our most sacred land to the enemies of freedom, but give all of lifes precious ...

Solomon Blatt, Sr.

Erected to honor

Solomon Blatt Sr.

who was born in Blackville February 27, 1825

The son of Nathan and Mollie Blatt

A courageous gentleman and statesman who loves Blackville

and all its citizens.

No other Blackville citizen has been honored as has Mr. Blatt

and ...

Morning Star Church

Organized by German

Lutherans about 1825;

Methodist since 1866.

Is 2½ miles south.

Marker is at the intersection of Park Street and Academy Street on Park Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Destruction of Dunlawton Plantation

In January 1836, during the second Indian War, the Indians burned Dunlawton Plantation. Only the brick walls, the chimneys and the heavy iron machinery were left. The Plantation was not rebuilt until the 1840's.

The war cost the United States ...

Chester Station Fight

At this station, two miles west, the Union army of the James, turning toward Richmond, fought an action on May 10, 1864 and tore up the railroad.

Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) 0.1 miles south of West Hundred ...

The Little River Lumber Company

This is the former site of the Little River Lumber Company mill complex. Founded in 1901 by Col. W.B. Townsend for whom this community is named, the company was one of the largest commercial lumber operations in the Smokies. From ...

God’s Acre Healing Springs

Deeded

To Almighty God

To Be Used By The Sick

And Afflicted

By

L.P. Lute Boylston

July 21, 1944

"The most precious piece of earth

I have ever owned"

Marker is on Springs Court (South Carolina Route S-6-358).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Maryville College

Founded in 1819 by the Synod of Tennessee, Presbyterian Church in the USA, as The Southern and Western Theological Seminary, its first president was Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D. Its original buildings were on Broadway at College Street. Receiving its present ...