The poem, printed in the Nashville Tennessean, recounts a dramatized version of Sergeant York's taking of the German machine gun position. The poem makes numerous biblical references as well as listing other prominent Tennessee military figures,...
"An act for the establishment of Washington College in honor to the Illustrious President of the United States at Salem in Washington County." The act is handwritten and is five pages in length. The resolution passed at Knoxville on July 10,...
Scrapbook kept by B.R. Strong about the visit of Judge John H. Regan, Postmaster General of the Confederacy, to Sevier County, Tennessee. Photographs and newspaper clippings included.
Governor John Sevier's address to the Tennessee General Assembly as transcribed by Daniel Smith. Sevier debriefs members about the outcome of Tennessee's appeal for admission. At this time, he also summons the members to attend the first session...
Corn husking contest at Old Timer's Day, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. Two men are kneeling on the floor and shucking corn with people watching them in the background.
This constitution is the "Houston Constitution," rejected by Franklin's Second Constitutional Convention of 1785 in Greeneville. Constitutional committee member and major contributor Rev. Samuel Houston had these pamphlets printed to argue the...
Elmear Kear, a broom maker, of Route 1, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. He is standing in his shop making a broom. There are brooms hanging on the wall along with other broom-making materials.
