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Jonesborough City Historical Markers

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

Jonesborough City Historical Markers

Jonesborough Churches
Cherokee Church ~ Holston Baptist Association
Cherokee Church
Holston Baptist Association

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This Baptist church was organized th... [click for more]

Providence Church
4 mi. S.W., this Presbyterian church was organized, 1780, by Rev. Samuel Doak. Hanover Presbytery met here Aug. 20, 1783, with Samuel Doak, Charles Cu... [click for more]

Jonesborough Historic Homes & Houses
Christopher Taylor House
About one mile southwest of this location, this log house was built in 1777 by this officer who was a veteran of the French and Indian War and a major... [click for more]

Old Dutch Meeting House
1 1/4 mi. is the site of the Immanuel Lutheran Church and Cemetery. Organized about 1807; reported in 1811 to the North Carolina Synod. and became cha... [click for more]

Jonesborough General Interest
Alfred Eugene Jackson
Born January 1807, this native Tennessean became one of the area's most successful businessmen, achieving prominence as a financial agent for the East... [click for more]

Alfred Martin Ray Buffalo Solder ~ Circa 1849 - 1917
On July 1, 1898, Lt. Ray planted the United States flag on San Juan Hill, Cuba, amid a hail of enemy bullets during the Spanish American War. For his ... [click for more]

Chester Inn
Dr. William P. Chester, a native of York County Pennsylvania and an excellent Jonesborough physician, opened the Chester Inn in 1797 on the Gre... [click for more]

Clarksville Iron Furnace
1.7 miles south from here are the ruins of the Clarksville Iron Furnace. The stone stack was built in 1833 by Montgomery Stuart, Elijah Embree and Edw... [click for more]

First Abolition Publications
On this site, in 1819-1820, were published The Manumission Intelligencer and The Emancipator. Edited and published by Elihu Embree a... [click for more]

Jacob Brown
About one mile S.W., this pioneer from S.C. settled on Nolichucky River in 1771. Brown's purchase of 2 tracts of land from the Cherokee on March 25, 1... [click for more]

Jonesboro: Oldest Town in Tennessee
Formally established in 1779, by the General Assembly of North Carolina, as county seat of Washington County, first county west of the mountains. In 1... [click for more]

Keystone Pottery
Eighty yards south. German immigrant Charles F. Decker opened the Keystone Pottery in 1872. Kitchen and household ware were produced in large quantite... [click for more]

State Seal
One-quarter mile SW on the main street of Jonesboro stood the silversmith shop of William and Matthew Atkinson, designers of the Great Seal of the Sta... [click for more]

Sulphur Springs Camp Meeting Grounds
Sulphur Springs Camp Meeting Grounds - The Methodist church as conducted camp meetings here since 1820. Camp meetings are religious revivals at which ... [click for more]

The Tester Brothers
The Volunteer State of Tennessee and this small community of New Victory proudly recognize brothers Robert D. Glenn W., and James E. Tester who bravel... [click for more]