Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site consists of four units: the Visitor Center Complex, which includes a museum and the Tailor Shop; an early Johnson home; the Andrew Johnson Homestead; and the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery. Together they represent ...

Home of Andrew Johnson

Home of

Andrew Johnson

17th President of the

United States

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Erected by

Nolachuckey Chapter D.A.R.

1926

Marker is on S Main Street (U.S. 321), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as “Signal Hill,” which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of ...

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Three miles west is the central unit of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site which includes the 17th president’s small tailor shop, the home in which he lived from 1838 to 1851, a museum, and administrative offices. Other units are ...

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president, was born in Raleigh but moved to Tennessee at age sixteen.

Record of Johnson's early life is anecdotal at best, as the poverty his family endured precluded written records. It is known, however, that Johnson ...

John Andrew

1758 – 1830

Just west of this marker is the grave of John Andrew who was a Revolutionary War soldier who fought in Georgia and South Carolina and served in the Georgia House of Assembly in 1783. He was a very ...

John Andrews, Master Craftsman

John Andrews, architect and craftsman, came to Claytown (Osgood) in 1854 with William McMurphy - stone and brick mason, John Lindsay - a sawyer, and Bluford Peyton - Laborer. Andrews built these three large homes and a mill as well ...

Andrew Johnson

Champion of Public Education in Tennessee

“Can there be nothing done to advance the great cause of education?”

Governor Andrew Johnson, 1853

----------Throughout his legislative and gubernatorial careers, Andrew Johnson advocated appropriation of public money for common schools for both boys and ...

Andrew Johnson Homestead

The Andrew Johnson Homestead was the last home of Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), 17th President of the United States (1865-1869). Congressman Andrew Johnson purchased the house and half-acre lot from James Brannan in September 1851. Built directly upon the street in ...

Andrew Johnson Office Plaza

Site of original Andrew Johnson Hotel constructed in 1927

Restoration by Aetna Casualty & Surety Company 1985.

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Dept. of Interior

Marker is at the intersection of South Gay ...