Elizabethton City Historical Markers

Map of Tennessee State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Elizabethton

Elizabethton City Historical Markers

Elizabethton Schools

Duffield Academy

These stones are from the foundation of the academy established Sept. 13, 1806, with Maj. George Duffield, Chairman, Nathaniel Taylor, George Williams... [click for more]

Elizabethton General Interest

Alfred Alexander Taylor

Born in this house, Aug. 7, 1848, he was representative in Congress in 1870, and again for three terms in 1889. He had comaigned unsuccessfully agains... [click for more]

Andrew Johnson

About .1 mile S.W. at the home of the daughter, Mary Johnson Stover, Andrew Johnson died in 1875. He had been a senator from Tennessee: governor of Te... [click for more]

Carter County’s Train History

Carter County's railroad history is the story of three trains ? the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, better known as Tweetsie (1881-1951); t... [click for more]

Cedar Grove Cemetery

Cedar Grove Cemetery was originally established as a colored cemetery in the early nineteenth century on a tract of land adjacent to a trail that beca... [click for more]

Covered Bridge

This bridge over Doe River was built early in 1882 at a cost to the county of $3000 for the bridge and $300 for the approaches. The site was chosen by... [click for more]

Elizabethton Historic District

Elizabethton Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Green Hill Cemetery

The Tipton family cemetery, it stood near the homesite of Samuel Tipton (1752-1833) and Susannah Reneau (1767-1853). Col. John Tipton, father of Samue... [click for more]

Renfro-Allen Farm

Renfro-Allen Farm is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Robert Love Taylor

Born in Happy Valley, Carter county, 1850: attorney; U.S. Congressman, 1879-1881; newspaper publisher; federa pension agent; Governor of Tennessee, 18... [click for more]

Rueben Brooks Farmstead

Rueben Brooks Farmstead is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Sabine Hill

Built about 1818 by Mary (?Polly?) Patton Taylor, widow of Gen. Nathaniel Taylor, of the War of 1812. Both are buried in the cemetery nearby. Among th... [click for more]

Samuel Powhatan Carter (Aug 6, 1819 ? May 26, 1891)

Samuel Powhatan Carter
Aug 6, 1819 ? May 26, 1891

Born in this house. After attending Washington C... [click for more]

Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga

In this neighborhood, on Sept. 26, 1780, Rev. Samuel Doak conducted religious services for the frontiersmen from Virginia and North Carolina, includin... [click for more]

Sycamore Shoals

Sycamore Shoals is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

The Mansion

?The Mansion? was built before 1780 by John Carter and his son Landon. John Carter was chairman of the Watauga Association, a court of five men elect... [click for more]

Transylvania Purchase

In this valley, March 17, 1775, the Transylvania Company, led by Richard Henderson, John Williams and Nathaniel Hart, bought from the Cherokee, led by... [click for more]

U.S. Post Office

U.S. Post Office is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Watauga Fort

400 yards northward and � mile northeast of the mouth of Gap Creek, stood Watauga Fort. Here, July 21, 1776, the settlers under Captain James Robertso... [click for more]

Watauga Purchase

Here, March 19, 1775, at the Sycamore Shoals, the Watauga Association, Charles Robertson, Trustee, bought from the Cherokee, with Oconostota as chief,... [click for more]