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Location of Stewart County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Stewart County, Tennessee.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Stewart County, Tennessee, United States.
Union forces took control of the state, occupying several strategic areas. In August 1862 their forces partially burned the county seat, Dover, to prevent its re-capture by Confederate Lt. Col. Thomas G. Woodward. [5] A second battle in the area, commonly called the Battle of Dover, took place in February 1863.
The Samuel Stacker House, near Dover, Tennessee, is a historic Greek Revival-style house built in 1856. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included five contributing buildings and one contributing object. [1] It includes a limestone, hipped roof-springhouse. [2]
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Dover is a city in and the county seat of Stewart County, Tennessee, [5] 67 miles (108 km) west-northwest of Nashville on the Cumberland River. Fort Donelson National Cemetery is in Dover. The population was 1,442 at the 2000 census and the 2010 census showed a population of 1,417.
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The fort, which was intended to house troops and protect the water batteries from sorties, had a few acres of log huts. Like Fort Henry, which fell to Union troops on February 6, Fort Donelson would not be able to defeat a large-scale assault, but officers wanted to be able hold the position as long as possible.