Original Circus Site / First Post Office / Country Stores

Original Circus Site

The Escalante Circus placed its tent here for its annual performance. The circus parade started here, moved east to Ward, north to Warner, west to Wintersberg (now in Huntington Beach) and returned.

First Post Office

In 1899 a Post Office ...

First City Hall / First School

First City Hall

In the early 1960's a new Elementary School was built and the old school was used as City Hall from 1962-1964. The old school was built in 1920

First School

The first school was started in Sycamore Hall during the ...

Transylvania University

Pioneer in higher education in Kentucky and west. Founded by The Commonwealth of Virginia, 1780. Located in Lexington since 1789

Marker is on West 3rd. Street 0.1 miles west of Market Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Victory Fire Bell

1889

This bell was rung

at the end of

these wars.

Marker is on Russell Avenue near 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Trego County Veterans Memorial

Dedicated in memory

of valiant service

to our country

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Russell Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

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Tennessee Ornithological Society

On October 7, 1915, Dr. George Curtis, Albert F. Ganier, Judge H.Y. Hughes, Dr. George R. Mayfield, Dixon Merritt, and A.C. Webb met at Faucon's Restaurant, 419 Union Street, approximately 50 feet east of here, to found the Tennessee Ornithological ...

Colonel Samuel Watson

Colonel Samuel Watson 1731-1810. Wife-Elizabeth McDowell 1738-1817. Near this spot was the home and commissary of Col. Watson, 1st. Liuet. of Rangers, Captain and Delegate to S.C. Prov. Congress 1776. Colonel of Militia New Aquisition. Elder in Bethel Church. In ...

Battle Bigger's Ferry 1780

Battle Bigger's Ferry 1780,

3 mi. east of this point on Catawba River between

Lord Rawdon's and Sumter's Forces. Whigs commanded by Cols. Hill and Lacey.

New Aquisition School attended by Pres. Andrew Jackson 1779 and the widow Howe's cottage where he boarded ...

More Enduring Than Marble

East Face of Monument:

More enduring than marble shall be the memory of the Confederate patriot in whose life fidelity to principle found loftiest expression.

West Face of Monument:

A tribute of love from the women of the south to the heroes of ...

Battle of Chattanooga, 3d Day, Nov. 25.

During the night of Nov. 24, 1863, Bragg's forces withdrew from the plain and Lookout and joined those on Missionary Ridge, occupying it from Rossville to Tunnel Hill, and a spur thence eastward to the Chickamauga. Sherman early on the ...