Brown's Ferry 2A14
About 1 1/4 mi. S.W., where the Great War and Trading Path crossed Tennessee River, John Brown, a Cherokee half-breed, established a ferry and tavern in 1800. It was much used by drovers going to and from markets. Legends say that some were robbed and murdered here.

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Double Springs 1A97
The large spring to the northwest was a landmark to early settlers. In his campaign against the Cherokees, Col. William Christian established his first camp here on October 1-4, 1776. The Double Springs Church, to the South, was founded in 1786by Jonathan Mulkey and pastored for 40 years by Jesse Riggs. Nearby lived John Jones, one of the commissioners of the Watauga Association.

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Bean Station 1B59
One of Tennessee's earliest settlements. This valley was a warpath for the Cherokees, was followed by Daniel Boone to Cumberland Gap, and was traveled by Davy Crockett. To the right of Highway 11W stood Bean Fort, built by William Bean, one of the first permanent white settlers in Tennessee. In front of the fort was Bean Station Tavern, largest tavern between Washington, D.C., and New Orleans. It lodged Presidents Polk, Johnson, and Jackson. During the Civil War, battles were fought around this site.

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Watauga Fort 1A8
1/4 mile southwest and 1/2 mile northeast of the mouth of Gap Creek, stood Watauga Fort. Here, July 21, 1776, the settlers under Captain James Robertson repulsed the Cherokees under Old Abraham of Chilowee, and Lt. John Sevier rescued "Bonny Kate" Sherrill.

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Transylvania Purchase 1A52
In this valley, March 17, 1775, the Transylvania Company, led by Richard Henderson, John Williams, Thomas and Nathaniel Hart, bought from the Cherokee, led by Chief Oconostota, all lands between the Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers. Over 20 million acres sold for 2000 pounds sterling and goods worth 8000 pounds.

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Watauga Purchase 1A53
Here, on March 19, 1775, at the Sycamore Shoals, the Watauga Association, Charles Robertson, Trustee, bought from the Cherokee, with Oconostosta as chief, lands along the Watauga, Holston, and Great Canaway (now New) Rivers. The consideration for the purchase was 2000 pounds sterling.

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Rice's Mill TN20
On the site of this mill, Henry Rice built and fortified a mill in 1775. Here, in 1776, the settlers took refuge from warring Cherokee. In April, 1777, Capt. James Robertson and eight other pioneers had a fight with 30 or 40 Cherokee here, in which Frederick Calvatt was scalped.

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Patterson's Mill TN19
On the site of this mill, Robert Patterson built a fort about 1775, shortly thereafter a mill. It was one of the two stations at which the settlers took refuge during the Cherokee raid under The Raven in 1776.

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Gov. McMinn's Home TN10
Near here was the site of "New Market," home of Joseph McMinn, Revolutionary veteran, Governor of Tennessee, 1815- 1821, and Indian agent for the Cherokee from 1823 to his death near Calhoun, on the Hiwassee River, in 1824. He is buried there.

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Island Road TN12
Oldest Wagon Road in Tennessee
America's First Road to the Southwest

This military road from Chilhowee, Virginia, to Kingsport, Tennessee, was completed September 1761 by Major Andrew Lewis under the command of Col. Adam Stephen. Upon reaching the Long Island of the Holston, the militia erected Fort Robinson to treaty for peace with the Cherokees.

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