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Roads of Tennessee in 1795. European settlers began arriving in the Watauga, Nolichucky, and Holston river valleys in the late 1760s and early 1770s, most migrating from Virginia via the Great Valley, although a few were believed to have been Regulators fleeing North Carolina after their defeat at the Battle of Alamance.
Avery's Trace was the principal road used by settlers travelling from the Knoxville area in East Tennessee to the Nashville area from 1788 to the mid-1830s.. In an effort to encourage settlers to move west into the new territory of Tennessee, in 1787 North Carolina ordered a road to be cut to lead settlers into the Cumberland Settlements — from the south end of Clinch mountain (in East ...
Settlers typically traveled down from southwest Virginia through Rogersville, Tennessee on the Knoxville Road before arriving at Knoxville. By 1795, what is now Kingston Pike went from James White's Fort to the western end of the county. Beyond the western end of the county, this route became known as the Nashville Road. By 1807, the Knoxville ...
North Carolina Maps: State Highway Maps – State transportation maps from 1916 to 2000, hosted at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries. 1941 General Drafting (Esso) map of North Carolina and South Carolina – TwinsMetsFan (talk · contribs) 2005 State Transportation Map – Rschen7754 (talk · contribs)
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilson County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
A map of the Unicoi Turnpike. The Unicoi Turnpike was a 150-mile (240km) trail through north Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee used by Native Americans before the footpath was converted into a toll road in the early 19th century.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
December 21 – George S Patton, General (born 1885) December 13 – Benjamin Gratz Brown, politician (born 1826) December 15 – Robert Toombs, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1853 to 1861 (born 1810) December 29 – James E. Bailey, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (born 1821)