Blountsville Court Square Timeline

1813: Colonel John Coffee and 800 Tennessee Volunteers see Bear Meat Cabin Cherokee Settlement near Blountsville

1816: Town settles around square

1820: Newly named Blountsville becomes county seat

1827: Town incorporated with Trustee System

1833: First courthouse built

1853: Town incorporated with new system; immediately ...

Construction in the 1840's

Construction in the 1840's, the two-story Greek Revival structure overlooking the Paducah riverfront was originally the location of the Branch Bank of Louisville, one of the community's first banks. After the Civil War, the building was used for many years ...

Original Lane

Used by first settlers:

Yaple and Dumond, near State St: Hennepaw on Casadilla Creek

Marker is on East. Buffalo Road, on the left when traveling east.

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The Doctor's House

The Doctor's House was owned consecutively by doctors Samuel Oglesby, William Daisey, Bache Gill, and Charles Gladstone. Dr. Gladstone never lived there, but boarded next door in the Sidney Crockett House.

Dr. Gladstone's former office still faces the back yard of ...

First Mobile Home

The former Noble Dise Store was replaced with the island's first mobile home in 1959.

Manufactured homes remain popular today, but require a community-wide effort to move one into place after being delivered to the island by barge.

Marker is at the ...

Methodist Parsonage

The Methodist Parsonage, the home of the resident Reverend and his family, was erected in 1887. It is the only house on the island with a basement and the first to have an indoor bathroom.

It was the first house ...

Cavalry Scout Stable Site

During the Revolutionary War

a Cavalry Scout Stable

was located

on this site accommodating

as many as forty mounts.

These stones were secured

from the ruins

of the old homestead

of Ezekiel Ball

brother of Timothy Ball who lived

in Tuscan Hall on Tuscan Road

near Springfield Avenue

in South Orange Township.

Marker ...

Van Hise Rock

The material of this rock was once sand on the sea bottom, and has since hardened into quartzite. It was tilted to the present position by a slow earth movement, and then separated from the adjacent cliff by erosion. The ...

Visitors Coming to Paducah

Visitors coming to Paducah by boat in the early part of the twentieth~century would have been greeted by the hustle and bustle of a riverfront lined with hotels, warehouses, packet boat offices, lumber yards, supply houses, iron foundries, maritime industries ...

Battle of Fort Recovery

Anthony Wayne Parkway

In 1793, Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne led a third expedition against the Indians. On this site where St. Clair met defeat, he built a post significantly named Fort Recovery, Dec. 23-26, 1793. Here was won the Battle of ...