Abbo's Alley

All Saints' Chapel

Army of Tennessee, July 4, 1863

“Here, and extending 2 miles S.W., occurred the last battle of the Middle Tennessee Campaign. Protecting Bragg’s withdrawal, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, with Texas Rangers and the 4th Tenn. Cav., repulsed an attack by the 5th & 6th Ky. Cav., under Col. Lewis Watkins, screening advance of Rosecrans’ Union forces.”
Beersheba Inn Historical Marker | Beersheba Springs

Beersheba Springs Historic District

Coalmont Bank Building

Convocation Hall
Convocation Hall (1886) was originally planned for convocations of the University and for meetings of the senate and board of trustees. It served as a library from 1901 to 1965.
Breslin Tower, donated by Thomas and Elizabeth Breslin, houses a Seth Thomas clock and chimes given by The Rev. George William Douglas. The tower also houses Sewanee’s Bentley Bells, which were made possible by a gift from Mrs. Donne Bentley Wright of Chattanooga. These English change-ringing bells were cast at Whitechapel Bell Foundry of London, England, which was also responsible for Big Ben and our Liberty Bell.
Cowan Railroad Museum

Cumberland Mountain Tunnel

Construction began in 1849 and was completed in 1852. Track was laid in 1853. The railroad was fully functional in 1855. It was part of the McMinnville-Chattanooga stagecoach line. It was important for coal transportation, logging transportation and a strategic location for both Union and Confederate troops during the Civil War.
Desegregation Marker

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The Sewanee community raised funds to add four new classrooms to the Sewanee Public School, located at this site, thus eliminating the argument that there was insufficient space to educate all of the community’s children together. Additionally, during the summer of 1964, Sewanee residents offered tutoring across the street at Otey Parish. This effort countered a second argument that African-American children would not be adequately prepared to join their white classmates.”
Fall Mills

Fiery Gizzard

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in Tennessee and the South, and to the development of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (now a division of United Sates Steel) into the South’s largest steel producer. The parent organization of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company was the Sewanee Mining Company, whose president, Samuel Tracy, donated five thousand acres of land, one million board feet of lumber, twenty thousand tons of free transportation, and two thousand tons of coal to the founding of The University of the South at Sewanee.”
Forrest’s Murfreesboro Raid

Gager Lime Manufacturing Company Mine Building

Goshen Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Gruetli Historical Marker | Gruetli-Laager

Grundy County

Highlander Folk School

Highlander provided training and education for the labor movement in Appalachia and throughout the Southern United States. During the 1950s, it played a critical role in the American Civil Rights Movement. It trained civil rights leader Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as well as providing training for many other movement activists including the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Septima Clark, Anne Braden, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Rosa Parks, Hollis Watkins, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis in the mid- and-late 1950s. Backlash against the school’s involvement with the Civil Rights Movement led to the school’s closure by the state of Tennessee in 1961. It reorganized and moved to Knoxville, Tenn., where it reopened. It later became the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. Photo by Grundy County Historical Society
Hundred Oaks Castle

Construction on Hundred Oaks Castle began in 1830, though it was not so-named at the time. Benjamin Decherd, the railroad tycoon for whom the town of Decherd, Tennessee, is named, originally built it as a plantation farmhouse. The property was purchased in the 1860’s by Albert Marks, the 21st governor of Tennessee and a relative to Thomas Jefferson. It is said that Albert’s son Arthur counted the gracious oak trees that dotted the plantation land and came to the sum of 100, hence the name “Hundred Oaks.” After year’s of neglect and a fire, the Kent Bramlett Foundation has renovated the Hundred Oaks Castle. Photo from http://hundredoakscastle.com
Lone Rock Coke Ovens

Marugg Stagecoach Inn

Mary Noailles Murfree

Melchior Thoni Jr.

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

Rebel's Rest

Ryan Mabee House

Saints Rest

Shapard Tower
“Shapard Tower, standing 134 feet tall, is found to the south side of the chapel. It was designed after the tower at Saint Mary the Virgin, the university church of Oxford, England. It houses the 56-bell Leonidas Polk Memorial Carillon. It was donated by W. Dudley Gale III, a descendant of Bishop Polk, bishop of Louisiana, lieutenant-general in the Confederate Army and a key figure in the founding of the University of the South.”
Shook House

National Historical Register. Photo by Grundy County Historical Society.
Trail of Tears Historic Route
University of the South
