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There is no reliable historical or archaeological evidence for Native American presence in the Nashville area from 1500 through the late 1600s. The region between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers was a hunting ground for many tribes, and while the Shawnee occupied the area in the later part of the 17th century, by 1700 they were being challenged ...
The Natchez Trace: a pictorial history. Nashville, TN. Rutledge Hill Press, 1985. (7th print edition in 2000 published by Thomas Nelson). ISBN 0-934395-03-9, ISBN 978-0-934395-03-8; Goodpasture, Henry. Old Town. Nashville, TN. 1950. Jones, Joseph. Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee. Smithsonian Institution Contributions to ...
Gates P. Thrustons 1890 manuscript, which started as a piece on a stone box grave cemetery found in Nashville, was the first comprehensive analysis of artifacts for the state of Tennessee. Thruston's conclusions about the builders of the local mounds and box graves added to the 19th-century myth of the " Moundbuilders ", who were believed to be ...
Like many other sites in central Tennessee during the Mississippian period the Brick Church Pike Mounds Site was a multi-mound village with an encircling defensive palisade. [2] The site had a large platform mound (Mound A) 23 feet (7.0 m) high and 155 feet (47 m) on the north–south axis by 147 feet (45 m)on the east–west axis and several ...
The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly 440 miles (710 km) from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers. Native Americans created and used the trail for centuries. Early European and American ...
On July 13, 2017 a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the site of the newly renovated Fort Nashborough History Center, where families from Nashville and around the world can learn about Nashville's story. The new History Center is a more inclusive representation of the past, and includes a plaza dedicated to Native American history. [13]
The attack on Buchanan's Station, successfully repelled by its defenders, was the final major Native attack on American settlements in the Cumberland, although smaller raids would continue. [5] In The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century , historian J. G. M. Ramsey called the actions of the fifteen gunmen "a feat of bravery ...
James Robertson (June 28, 1742 – September 1, 1814) was an American explorer, soldier and Indian agent, and one of the founding fathers of what became the State of Tennessee. An early companion of explorer Daniel Boone , Robertson helped establish the Watauga Association in the early 1770s, and to defend Fort Watauga from an attack by ...
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