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Rock Castle State Historic Site, located in Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee, is the former home of Daniel Smith. Construction began in 1784; its completion was delayed by conflicts with area Native Americans and the house was completed in 1796.
January 12, 1965 (Knoxville: Knox: The home of William Blount from 1792 to his death in 1800. A Continental Congressman of the Congress of the Confederation and the Constitutional Convention where he represented North Carolina, Blount then became governor of the Southwest Territory, led Tennessee to statehood, and later served in the US Senate.
Bacon's Castle, 2014, in Surry County, Virginia Beacon Towers in Sands Point, New York Belvedere Castle, a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City Berkeley Castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove, Illinois Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina Boldt Castle on Heart Island, Thousand Islands, New York The Camelback Castle/Copenhaver Castle in ...
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]
Rock Castle (Hendersonville, Tennessee) Hendersonville: 1784-1791 Residence earliest known version of Federal Style architecture in Tennessee. Dixona: Dixon Springs: 1787-88 Residence Bowen–Campbell House: Goodlettsville: 1789 Residence Log Cabin at The Tanglewood House: Clarksville: 1790s Residence Purportedly the oldest log cabin in TN ...
A few years later in the summer of 1971 a local youth discovered a unique set of ceramic figurines at the site. John Dowd, a respected avocational archaeologist from Nashville, was contacted and after visiting the location started the first photographically recorded excavations at the site.
The fund raising effort for this purpose was headed by local attorney Warner Bass, grandson and great-nephew of park namesakes Edwin and Percy Warner, respectively, and coordinated through the parks' charitable support group, Friends of Warner Parks.
In the late 1950s, an effort arose, spearheaded by a number of local historians, to preserve the land of the Red Clay Council Grounds, then private land, and turn it into a state park. [20] Local historian James F. Corn purchased 150 acres of the property on June 15, 1964, and six months later, the Cherokee-Red Clay Association was incorporated ...