Preserving the President’s Legacy

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

“ . . . I believe that my Father was the greatest man this country ever produced!”

Martha Johnson Patterson

Three generations of Andrew Johnson’s family devoted time and effort to preserve his memory and legacy. In ...

The Heart of the Household

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

“At four in the morning I had to be up. I went up and made the fire in [Johnson’s] room, shined his boots, and then made a fire in the kitchen stove. I stood by ...

The Metropolitan Branch and Takoma Park

Geology

This section of the trail is on the border of two physiographic provinces, the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Region, display traces of two different times on Earth.

The Coastal Plain stretches south and east from where you are standing ...

Greenville Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Founded 1841

The original log church on Irish Street served until 1860 when the present structure was begun on land purchased from Andrew Johnson.

The War Between the States saw the church used as a hospital and stable.

The cannon ball in the ...

A Summary of the Life of Davy Crockett

• Raised in frontier poverty without any education until he is a teenager, David is often hired out to others for additional income while still a child; once held against his will until he escapes under the cover of ...

Welcome to Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park

David Crockett: 1786 – 1836

When David Crockett was born on this site on August 17, 1786 he entered a new world surrounded by extreme poverty, danger, and uncertainty – the birthright of almost every frontier family in the late eighteenth ...

The Unknown Embattled Defenders of Fort Harrison

Here

unknown but not forgotten

lie the Embattled Defenders

of

Fort Harrison

September 3, - 5, 1812

Marker is on McCullough Avenue (becomes 4th Street) north of Fort Harrison Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burial Ground Fort William Harrison

Dedicated to the memory of the courageous pioneers who so successfully defended Fort Harrison in the activities which served as a Prologue to The War of 1812

Marker can be reached from McCullough Avenue (becomes 4th Street) north of Fort Harrison ...

The Old Tollhouse

Alte Mauth

[Marker text in German:]

Hier stand die

Alte Mauth

Zerstört durch

Kriegseinwirkung

1944 - 1945

[Marker text translated into English:]

Here stood the Old Tollhouse. Destroyed by the effects of war, 1944-1945.

Marker can be reached from Mauthgasse just from Gruener Markt.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as “Signal Hill,” which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of ...