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Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall, which was only realised in part. The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]
1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed. [10] 1862 Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville. [3] June 6: First Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis. [3] 1864 August 21: Second Battle of Memphis. First National Bank of Memphis established. [7] 1866 May: Racial unrest.
The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left Inigo Jones' 1638 plan for a new palace at Whitehall, "one of the grandest architectural conceptions of the renaissance in England"; [30] the Banqueting House is incorporated to the near left of the central courtyard (for the most part, Jones's plan was ultimately never executed)
First built Use Notes Long Meadow: Surgoinsville: 1762-64 Residence Original log structure is within the walls of current home Carter Mansion at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area: Elizabethton: 1775-80 Residence Oldest frame house in Tennessee [1] Robert Young Cabin: Johnson City: 1776 Residence
Map of Whitehall in 1680, showing the Palace of Whitehall and Scotland Yard. To the west of Holbein Gate , the road was known as The Street. There has been a route connecting Charing Cross to Westminster since the Middle Ages ; the 12th-century historian William Fitzstephen described it as "a continued suburb, mingled with large and beautiful ...
1858 – City Workhouse and Church of St. Ann's built. [5] 1859 Tennessee State Capitol, draw-bridge, and Central Baptist Church built. [5] Louisville and Nashville Railroad begins operating. [3] 1860 - Population: 16,988. [11] 1862 City under Union control. [3] Fort Negley built. 1863 – St. Mary's Catholic Orphan Asylum founded. [5]
European exploration came years later, with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area as early as the 1540s. [10]By the 1680s, French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity, the first European settlement in what would become Memphis, predating Anglo-American settlement in East Tennessee by ...