Cover depicts Lady Liberty standing boldly in a harbor with her left foot on wrapped coils of gunpowder encased around an axe. The American Eagle is shown to her right rear and tall ships can be seen in the harbor. Color.
Eight-page promotional pamphlet advertising ten five-thousand-acre tracts of land for sale in 1881 known as the Manning Lands. The parcels of land were located in Overton, Fentress, and Morgan counties. A fold-out map is included showing the...
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
Four-page letter from Beck Wallace to her cousin, Samuel R. Latta, of the 13th Tennessee Infantry, conveys her sorrow at his leaving home to fight for the Confederacy. She is deeply concerned for his wife and children. Beck, a teacher in Fayette...
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front view of Old Holt Residence shows Greek Revival and Italianate features. The two-story brick house has a front porch supported by pilasters and tall columns.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Group of unidentified individuals scattering straw on a hillside. Written in ink on the back of the photograph, it says: "Scattering straw on hillside to improve land. Retards wash."
This volume comprises the first land grant book created for the area which became Tennessee. Located at the front is the contract or treaty formalizing the land purchase between the Watauga Association and the Cherokee chiefs. It is followed by...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Interior view of Mt. Pisgah School. The original rough pine desks are shown with a potbelly stove in the center of the room. One window for light can be seen in the background.
Letter from Assistant Adjutant General W. T. Clarke from the War Department, Office of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land, concerning the terms of returning the home of J. E. Bailey to its owner after the army used it as a hospital.
Letter from Commissioner J. B. Killebrew to H. C. Collier of Charlotte, Tennessee, deals with encouraging immigration to Tennessee in the 1880s and the accompanying sale of farm land across the state. Killebrew assures Collier that immigration is...
Letter from G. R. Rutledge to Robert Rutledge commenting on the prices of provisions in the region, the lack of certain goods, and his need to purchase a horse. He expresses concern for Robert's health and provisions and is worried about Gam...
Letter from John Wesley Teague to his father. Teague discusses whether or not he should purchase land. He states that if his father wants to buy the land he will furnish him sixty dollars. Teague served as a messenger with the 9th Tenn. Vol. Cav....
Letter from Robert Rutledge describing a Union cavalry raid on his camp in which several men were wounded or captured and also a fight beween Harry Henry and an artilleryman in the camp. He asks about the condition of Mr. Runion, who has small pox;...
Letter from Robert Rutledge expressing concern for his sick son, correcting an earlier assertion that a member of his company was killed, and describing plans to buy land in Texas. He asks his wife to buy needed provisions without concern for...
Letter from Robert Rutledge to his father, G. R. Rutledge, explaining the strategic value of East Tennessee and the likelihood of a Union invasion. He implores his father to leave Cleveland, Tennessee, and flee south to Georgia before such a raid...
Map of Haywood County (Tenn.) showing the original land grants and entries formerly of Haywood County but now a part of Crockett County (Tenn.). Names of grant holders are given. Prepared from Haywood County records by J. D. Anthony.
Maps; Rivers; Cities & towns; Streams; Surveying; Land grants
Map showing ranges, counties, streams, some roads, and county seats of the First Surveyor's District of Tennessee in the early 1800s. The Tennessee River appears at the western edge of the map. The counties of Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner,...
