Whitesburg City Historical Markers

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

Whitesburg City Historical Markers

Whitesburg Churches

Bent Creek Church

This Baptist church is successor to the church established about one mile southwest, by Elder Tidence Lane and Elder William Murphy in 1785. A cemeter... [click for more]

Whitesburg General Interest

Hamblen - Hawkins County Line

Hamblen County
Established 1870; named in honor of

Hezekiah Hamblen

Hawkins - Hamblen County Line

Hawkins County

Established 1886; named in honor of
Benjamin Hawkins.

Mem... [click for more]

Tidence Lane (1724-1806)

Tidence Lane was pastor of the first church in Tennessee, Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church in Washington County, in 1778. He also organized Bent Creek, no... [click for more]