Marking Time: East Tennessee Historical Markers and the Stories behind Them by Fred Brown

Marking Time: East Tennessee Historical Markers and the Stories behind Them

Fred Brown
375 pages
Univ Tennessee Press; 1 edition
Sep 2005
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The roadside historical markers of East Tennessee highlight the fascinating personalities and significant events of a culturally and historically rich region. Forthree years, Knoxville News Sentinel columnist Fred Brown presented the storiesbehind the local markers placed by the Tennessee Historical Commission. He searchedthe highways and back roads of East Tennessee, tracking down markers with directionsthat were sometimes no more specific than ?Highway 11, Greene County.?Arranged by county, the entries link East Tennessee?s past and present and highlightthe enormous diversity of the state?s history from its prehistoric past through its involvement in World War II. The markers detail bitter struggles with Native Americans in the eighteenth century, but also explain the unique contribution of Cherokee culture and civilization, such as Sequoyah?s development of the Cherokee syllabary.
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Pages 375
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Published 2005
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