David Glasgow Farragut

1801-1870

A native of Stony Point (Low's Ferry) David Farragut moved to New Orleans at the age of three. At the age of ten, he began a career with the U.S. Navy; ca. 1827, pioneered a school for seamen; 1841, improved ...

Auction Site / First Train Depot

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Auction Site

At this site on May 15th 1905, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad auctioned off lots for the creation of the new city of Las Vegas. With 110 degree temperatures ...

McBee's Ferry

1/2 mile NW, near the present railway bridge, this ferry was established by William McBee in the last decade of the 18th century. Many early travelers have, in their diaries, mentioned using it.

Marker is on Tennessee Route 11E, on the ...

Old Revolutionary Fort

In December 1776 General Roche De Fernoy and General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) had their headquarters here at a "hip-roof" house known as The Old Fort. Before the Battle of Trenton, Coryell's Ferry became a military camp. Stockade entrenchments were ...

Filoli

Fight – Love – Live

This country estate was begun in 1915 for Mr. and Mrs. William B. Bourn, II. Architect Willis J. Polk designed a modified Georgian Style country house. Subsequently the carriage house and garden pavilion were executed by ...

8th Iowa Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

(front):Iowa

In memory of her

8th Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brigade,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division,

Army of the Tennessee

(back):

Iowa

8th Regiment Infantry Volunteers,

Commanded by Col. James L. Geddes.

The regiment held this position from about 11 a.m., April 6, 1862, until about ...

White - Force Cottage

This Italianate style cottage was built in 1859 by C. B. and Martha Todd White. Mrs. White, half sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, was an outspoken Southern patriot, who subjected the Lincolns to severe criticism, when the Northern press accused ...

Hickman Bluff Stabilization Project

1996 - 2000

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Memphis District

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell

Congressional Sponsor

Mayors of Hickman

Judy C. Powell

John P. Shuff

Richard H. White, M.D.

Project Design: D'Appolonia, Inc.

Prime Contractor: Schunbel Foundation Co.

Subcontractor: Coffey Construction Co.

After a century of instability, erosion of Hickman Bluff caused ...

Middleport Medal of Honor Recipients

Edward A. Bennett, PFC, Co. B., 358th. Inf. Regt., 90th Inf. Div. Honored for bravery during combat in Germany, Feb., 1945. Award presented by President Truman in October. Bennett retired from service with the rank of Major on Feb. 1, ...

The Madden Branch Massacre: Anti-Confederate activity in North G

North of here on Madden Branch in Polk County, Tennessee, on November 29, 1864, during the American Civil War, six Georgians trying to enlist in the U.S. Army -- Thomas Bell, Harvey Brewster, James T. Hughes, James B. Nelson, Elijah ...