Great Chain Battery

Chain

Battery

1778

Marker can be reached from Pitcher Road.

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Transylvania University

Pioneer in higher education in Kentucky and west. Founded by The Commonwealth of Virginia, 1780. Located in Lexington since 1789

Marker is on West 3rd. Street 0.1 miles west of Market Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Victory Fire Bell

1889

This bell was rung

at the end of

these wars.

Marker is on Russell Avenue near 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Trego County Veterans Memorial

Dedicated in memory

of valiant service

to our country

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Russell Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

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RCA Studio B

RCA Records established a recording studio in this building in Novemeber 1957, with local offices run by quitarist-producer Chet Atkins. Its success led to a larger studio, known as Studio A, built next door in 1964. Studio B recorded numerous ...

Headquarters Row

Generals and Ghosts

Beginning in 1862, Confederate Gens. Braxton Bragg, Daniel Ledbetter, and Joseph E. Johnston, followed by Union Gens. William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas, occupied the Greek Revival-style Richardson house, which stood nearby at 320 Walnut Street. When ...

Thomas Green Ryman

1841 - 1904

A prominent riverboat captain and Nashville businessman, Thomas Ryman was known for his generous contributions of time and money to the construction of the Union Gospel Tavernacle. In 1904, the Tabernacle was renamed the Ryman Auditorium in his ...

Historic Cemeteries

Flint Hill & Oakton Church of the Brethren

Before you is Flint Hill Cemetery, the resting place of many of this area's most prominent Civil War-era civilian and military figures. Twenty-four veterans, including four who served in Confederate Col. John S. ...

Tennessee Ornithological Society

On October 7, 1915, Dr. George Curtis, Albert F. Ganier, Judge H.Y. Hughes, Dr. George R. Mayfield, Dixon Merritt, and A.C. Webb met at Faucon's Restaurant, 419 Union Street, approximately 50 feet east of here, to found the Tennessee Ornithological ...

Site of First Store

Lardner Clark came from Philadelphia in the early 1780's with ten horses packed with piece goods, needles and pins. He established Nashville's first drygoods store by 1786, on a site 30 yards east. The building, which served as store, tavern ...