Home of Robert Allen from 1804, Congressman (1819-27) until his death in 1844.
08/23/1830 - Andrew Jackson confronts a Chickasaw Indian delegation ... in Franklin, TN which is also the home of Secretary of War John Eaton, and gives them an ultimatum to move to new territories across the Mississippi. (Source: Remini, Jackson, vol 2, p270)
Location of the John Allen estate, Allenwood, where Sam Houston married Allen's daughter Eliza on 1/22/29. (Source: Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto, p97)
About 30 miles south of Nashville, and equal distance from Murfreesboro. Sam Houston had his first law office there -- "in a small log building just off the main square" in 1819. (Source: Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto, p63,64)
About 10 miles north of where Sam Houston's mother and sons settled (about 1808), on Bakers Creek. On the Tennessee River, in a mountainous area just west of the NC border.
At the very southwestern corner of the state - the largest Tennessee city on the Mississippi. Home of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
For a time was the state capitol -- some time around 1820, at least; also the headquarters of the militioa. (Source: Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto, p64)
The community established by Frances Wright in 1826 (promoted and land purchased late in 1825) to try to reeducate slaves for freedom, after which they would be colonized to Haiti.
On the Wolf River (whose Chickasaw name was Nashoba), 15 miles east of Memphis.
(This entry is not meant to imply that the site continued as any sort of community after Wright abandoned the effort).
Home of Andrew Jackson (who lived on the outskirts at a plantation called the Hermitage). On the Cumberland R., just west of the center line of the state.
Runs just below the northern border of the state, like a smaller concentric arc enclosed within that of the Tennessee R. It begins in KY, entering KY at about the middle of its northern border, flows mostly west, past Carthage, Gallatin and Nashville, and back into KY, where it roughly parallels the Tenn. R. until it empties into the Mississippi.
Western boundary of TN. Memphis, TN is on it, in the southwestern corner of the state.
Starts out in east TN, about Knoxville; runs to the southwest where it dips down into Alabama. It recrosses the border back into TN, about 100 miles west of where it enters Alabama, and runs more or less straight north across the state.