Paris City Historical Markers

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

Paris City Historical Markers

Paris Schools

E. W. Grove Henry County High School

E. W. Grove Henry County High School is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Robert E. Lee School

Robert E. Lee School is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

Paris Courthouse

Henry County Courthouse ~ Henry County

Henry County Courthouse

This Courthouse was designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga and built by ... [click for more]

Paris Historic Homes & Houses

Charles M. White House

Charles M. White House is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

E.K. Jernigan House

E.K. Jernigan House is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

Gov. James D. Porter Home

The home of James D. Porter, Tennessee Governor 1875-79, was designed by and built for Thomas Wall Crawford in 1848, later owned by the Dunlap family,... [click for more]

H.L. Bruce House

H.L. Bruce House is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

Hartwell B. Jernigan House

Hartwell B. Jernigan House is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

Judge John C. Sweeney House

Judge John C. Sweeney House is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

Porter House

Porter House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Paris General Interest

Battle of Paris

On this ridge on March 11, 1862, 450 Confederate troops under the command of Major H. Clay King, 1st Kentucky Battalion, Cavalry, and Stack's and McCu... [click for more]

Forrest at Paris Landing

On October 28, 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, C.S.A., began his famous Johnsonville Raid by placing masked batteries on the banks of the Tennes... [click for more]

James Davis Porter

Born near here Dec. 17,1828. Member, General Assembly of 1859, later served the Confederacy as Chief of Staff to Gen. B.P. Cheatham. Member, Constitut... [click for more]

John De Witt Clinton Atkins (1825-1908)

John De Witt Clinton Atkins
(1825-1908)

Born in Henry County, J.D.C. Atkins was a member, Tenn. G... [click for more]

North Poplar Historic District

North Poplar Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

Paris Commercial Historic District

Paris Commercial Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]

West Paris Historic District

West Paris Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesParis MRA... [click for more]