The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-16
STATE TO MARK
NOTABLE POINTS
IN THIS COUNTY
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Maury County Historical Markers. ~
| Site of home Col, Joseph Brown,
2 Site where first county court as.
sembled and county formed. sb4
3 Grave of Col, Joseph Brown lin
Giles county,.
4 Western boundary of the Gen
Nathaniel Green grant of 25,O0O acres.
8 East boundary of the above.
6 Site of the first Presbyterian
church at Zion.
st. Johns Episcopal church
erected by Gen. Leonidas Polk and
where are buried Bishop Otey and
four Confederate genehal killed at
Franklin.
3 Site of the Pisgah Methodist
church, first Methodist church in the
county.
Farm of Maj Sam Polk six miles
on Nashville pike where President
Polk spent boyhood days. y
10 Jackson spring Riverside, where
tradition says that Jackson troops had
barbecue and soldiers mustered out
after Creek war.
IL Home Of James Knox Polk. Coz
umbia. sf
I IL James D. Folks law Office
where Bethel now stands.
13 Graves of Major Sam Polk and
wife, mother and father of President
Polk, in old cemetery.
IA House where Antionette Polk
started on her famous ride said to be
where Academy now stands.
10 Davis ford on Duck river, two
and a half miles East of Columbia
where Hoods army crossed Nov. "a.
16 Old Inn East of court house
where reception was given Polk at
which there We're present three presi
dents, Jackson, Van Buren, and Polk
II Place on Culleoka pike six viles
from Columbia where Gen Feliz Zol-
iicoffer was born.
Is Old Duck river ford below pres.
ent bridge where federal soldiers help
ed to carry the body of Sam Davis up
the bank.
10 Bluffs of Duck river near the
bridge where Hoods army fired on re,
treating federals.
20 House where. Gen. Van Dorm
was killed by Dr. Peters fBranham &
Hughes school, Spring HILL
county, where Forrest captured Gems.
Coburn and Shafter.
% Cheairs house. now owned by
Mr.. Whitfield, about ten miles on the
Nashville pike, where five Confederate
generals had their last breakfast on
the morning of Nov. 80, 1864
% Site of store in Columbia where
Gen. Forest was shot by Lieut. Guild.
"a Porter House (old Bartlett
House) w. 9th street in which Gen.
Forrest recouperated from his wounds
given by Lieut. Guild.
% Mt Pernasus where Hoods ar
tillery fired on federals
26 Warield home, Pulaski pike,
where federal Gen Cox made head
quarters on night Nov. 81, 1864, and
Gen. Hood made headquarters the fol
| lowing night.
q Rutherford Hill where federal
batteries were established, first
2S First toll gate beyond Spring
Hill, where FORESTS brother was kill
ed
20 Residence of Senator Edward
Ward Carmack.
Mercer Hall, residence of Bishop
0tey.
Ravenscroft Male School, just oppo-
site Mercer Hall. ..-........
Residence of Major and Mrs. Sam
Polk, parents of President Polk, south.
west corner of His. and West Sew
enth.
Tombs of father and mother in
Greenwood cemetery.
The A. o. P. Nicholson home, Unit
ed States senator and chief justice of
supreme court of Tennesnee CThe old
Barrow home w. Seventh.
Grave of Gen. Carter, Rose Hill.
Burned from home of Col. F. c.. Dun
ningtOn.
The county historical committee is
composed of the following: Judge
William s Fleming, John w. Fry, Mrs.
c. w. Mitchell. Miss Charlotte Hen
derson, Seth w. Warfeld, Thomas H.
Williams. Walter, T. Woodbridge. Mrs.
E. II. Hatcher. Mrs. John T. Wooten,
Mrs. Jesse Tomlinson, Mrs, Augustus
E. Sheldon
j. |. Finney is the member from this
county of the state historical commit.
tee
, Gen. Lawrence D. Tyson. member of
the state historical commission. has
given $500 in gold open to all of the