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Thomas and Melinda Benton House in 2012. In 1866, a group of emancipated African Americans settled along Turkey Creek on about 320 acres (130 hectares) formerly owned by Arkansas Lumber Company. [1] Freed slaves, Thomas and Melinda Benton, acquired enough land so that their holdings comprised 50 percent of the community.
Mayor Abby Norton said she believes she has found out who owns the land where a monument stands at 271 NW U.S. 25-70 in Hot Springs. A Robert E. Lee Dixie Highway Marker plaque was stolen from the ...
Location of Benton County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
U.S. Route 70 (US 70) enters the state of Tennessee from Arkansas via the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, and runs west to east across 21 counties in all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee, with a total length of 478.48 miles (770.04 km), to end at the North Carolina state line in eastern Cocke County.
On April 30, 1891, Jim Taylor, another African-American man, was lynched on Murfreesboro Road in Franklin by another mob, accused of killing a White man. A memorial to Confederate soldiers was erected in 1899 by fourteen women of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to honor Confederate soldiers, including the 6,125 casualties of the Battle ...
Murfreesboro officials plan to build a traffic signal in the fast-growing westside at Blackman Road and Manson Pike/Burnt Knob Road.
Michael Jackson left more than an extensive musical legacy and his former estate of Neverland Ranch behind when he died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009 — the King of Pop also had three children.
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