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Pigeon Forge City Historical Markers

Map of Tennessee State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Pigeon Forge
 

Pigeon Forge City Historical Markers

Pigeon Forge Historical Marker

4010 Parkway, Pigeon Forge, TN, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 35° 46' 33.78", -83° 32' 37.619988"

About 3/4 mile southeast, Issac Love operated a forge on the site of the flour mill on Pigeon River in 1820, making bar iron. Ore came from an orebank about 3 miles east, later, pig iron came from Sweden Furnace, 5 miles east. Forge hammer and fittings are nearby.

Erected by Tennessee Historical Commission.

4010 Parkway
Pigeon Forge Churches
Shiloh Church
In 1802 Methodist Bishop Frnacis Asbery preached in the home of Mitchell Porter, Revolutionary veteran, who lived two miles north of here. In 1808 Asb... [click for more]

Pigeon Forge Historic Homes & Houses
Unionists Within the Confederacy ~ Sevier County Home Guard
When the Civil War began, Sevier County Unionists at first operated quietly in secessionist Tennessee. In 1861, they set up a secret garment factory i... [click for more]

Pigeon Forge General Interest
Pigeon Forge Mill
Pigeon Forge Mill is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Pigeon Forge City Historical Marker
About 3/4 mile southeast, Issac Love operated a forge on the site of the flour mill on Pigeon River in 1820, making bar iron. Ore came from an orebank... [click for more]

Wear’s Fort
Col. Samuel Wear settled near the mouth of Walden's Creek in 1783. He fought at King's Mountain and later in Indian Wars, was first county clerk of Se... [click for more]