Welcome to Wickliffe Mounds

State Historic Site

Nearly one thousand years ago, this village was home for Native Americans of the prehistoric Mississippian culture. Peaceful farmers, these mound building Indians lived throughout the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. Exhibits at Wicklffe Mounds museum interpret the ...

Ceremonial Mound

Excavations have shown that building stood on several earlier levels of this mound.

We do not know how big those buildings were.

This structure is approximately the size of the posthole pattern in the architecture building (Mound B)

Marker can be reached ...

West College

Built 1804 on this site by

Union College before move

to uptown campus in 1814.

It became first city hall,

then Union Classical School.

Union College

Bicentennial

1795-1995

Marker is on Union Street, on the right when traveling west.

Burial Mound

(Mound C)

Native American Indian of the Mississippian culture were buried in this cemetery mound sometime in the A.D. 1200s. First excavated in 1932 by owner Col. Fain King, the mound was referred to as “Mound C”. A building was constructed ...

Mountain Cliffs - Cherokee Geology

[Left-Side of Text]: Mountain Cliffs

As you walk along this path, you see piles of rock (sandstone) built up in layers. It is a hard rock that forms the cap of Lookout Mountain and the other ranges of the Cumberland Plateau. ...

Hazel Plain

In 1860, Benjamin Chinn and his family lived here in a two-and-a-half story frame farmhouse. Known as "Hazel Plain," the modest plantation comprised several hundred acres. The property was typical of those in Prince William County, yielding wheat, corn, oats, ...

Knoxville Academy

Incorporated 1837 Chartered

Regents 1842-1869 Faced

Military Training Ground 1776

Marker is on Berne Altamont Road (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lookout Valley

You are looking across Lookout Valley and the flat-topped ridges of the Cumberland Plateau. The morning of November 24, Union Gen. Hooker's troops crossed Lookout Creek opposite the present railroad yard in the valley. Then, in a long column, they ...

"The Very Vortex of Hell"

Second Battle of Manassas

From their position atop this ridge, the soldiers of the 5th New York Infantry listened to the crash of battle. It appeared the regiment had escaped combat that day. Most of the fighting raged one mile to ...

Birthplace of Allan Shivers

Governor of Texas (1949-1957)

Born here, in now-razed house, Oct. 5,1907, to Robert and Easter C. Shivers, pioneer East Texas family. As youth, worked at odd jobs to earn own pocket money. Was State Senator 12 years; Lieutenant Governor for two. ...