Pigeon

The name of this town recalls the now-extinct passenger pigeon, which in vast flights nested in the beech groves of this area. The nestlings were taken as food each spring by the Seneca Indians.

Marker is at the intersection of Pennsylvania ...

Pigeon Key Historic District

Located at U.S. Highway 1 at Mile Marker 45, the district consists of seven frame vernacular structures built between 1909 and 1920 as a railroad construction work camp for laborers on Henry Flagler's overseas railroad. The camp includes a 1912 ...

Passenger Pigeon Monument

Dedicated to the last Wisconsin Passenger Pigeon shot at Babcock, Sept. 1899. This species became extinct through the avarice and the thoughtlessness of man.

Marker can be reached from Long Valley Road ½ mile west of State Park Lane.

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Battle of Pigeon's Roost

Near a hill south of town on May 17, 1862, Confederate troops led by Maj. Peter Otey surprised and routed a Union regiment commanded by Colonel Louis von Blessing. Federal losses were 18 killed, 56 wounded and 14 captured. Confederate ...

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 ...

Pigeon Forge

About 3/4 mile ooutheast, Isaac Love

operated a forge on the site of

the flour mill on Pigeon River

in 1820, making bar iron. One came

from an orebank about 3 miles

east, later, pig-iron came from

Sweden Furnace, 5 miles east. Forge

hammer and fittings are ...

Forks of the Little Pigeon Cemetery

This churchyard is one of the oldest Baptist churchyards in Tennessee, (Established in 1789). It is the final resting place for many prominent pioneers. Deeded to the City of Sevierville by The First Baptist Church of Sevierville in 1975. It ...

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 ...

Passenger Pigeon

Across Lake Marburg on the northern horizon lie the Pigeon Hills, once inhabited by thousands of passenger pigeons. The monument at the top of the knoll replaces the original Boy Scout Memorial erected in the Pigeon Hills in 1947. The ...

Tribute to Combat Pigeons

A Memorial

to

Homing Pigeons

In Combat

Courage • Loyalty • Endurance

Marker is on Gosselin Ave near Murray Drive.

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