The place takes its name from the highway ford on the Holston, seven miles west of Royal Oak. The land here belonged to General William Campbell, hero of Kings Mountain, 1780. It descended to the wife of John M. Preston. The town originated as a railroad station, it was occupied in Stoneman’s Raid of December, 1864.

Marker is at the intersection of Lee Highway (U.S. 11) and Shamrock Lane, on the left when traveling west on Lee Highway.

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