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The Historic City of Loudon, Tennessee. This Delightful Riverfront Village Is Brimming with History and Hospitality LOUDON HISTORY Welcome to the historic city of Loudon, Tennessee. This delightful riverfront village is brimming with history and hospitality. Here you can wander the picturesque streets, stop for Huffs Ferry Historic Railroad Bridge Site of Longstreet Crossing ice cream, or indulge your appetite with a hearty dinner. Hot coffee and cool conversation, a gourmet lunch with a side of history, friendly residents, and gracious Southern charm Site of Civil War Encampments are just a few of Loudon’s amenities. With its feet firmly rooted in the past and its eyes steadfastly focused on the future, the town has much to offer. Historic Train Depot 1764 1828 April 12, 1861 November 24, 1883 n 1790, families began settling on the northern Cherokee Chief Pathkiller born The Atlas was the first steamboat to Civil War begins at 4:30 a.m. when Andy Taylor is hanged on the Lyric Theater sail up the Tennessee River the Confederates open fire on Ft. courthouse lawn for the murder of bank of the Tennessee River in what is present day 1780 Long before white settlers made their way to East Sumter in Charleston Harbor Hamilton County Sheriff W. T. Cale John Hudson Carmichael born Tennessee, the area was Cherokee country. The 1829 and Deputy J. J. Conway in Original Site of Historic Wharf Street word Tennessee comes from the Cherokee town Richard T. Wilson is June 1861 Philadelphia, Tennessee. This is the Loudon, Tennessee. The Tunnells, Carmichaels, Tanasi, which along with its neighbor town Chota 1790 born in Georgia The railroad brought new opportunities for growth Tennessee is the last state last public hanging in Loudon County Proposed Pedestrian Walkway was one of the most important Cherokee towns and to Loudon. With the completion of the railroad White settlers began to settle on the often referred to as the capital city of the Overhill to secede from the Union Cumberland and Blairs were among those early settlers. At that bridge in 1855, goods could be transported more Cherokee. The meaning of the word “tanasi” has Presbyterian northern bank of the Tennessee River 1832 easily through an overland route. August 3, 1896 where Loudon bridge is today been lost over the years. James H. Carmichael born November 9, 1861 Grace Graham Wilson, daughter of Church Original Site of Carmichael Inn time, this area was still part of North Carolina and A group of Unionist East Tennesseans R. T. Wilson, marries Cornelius You are here. 1791 1834 choose to get drunk instead of Vanderbilt III it would be six years - June 1, 1796 - before Tennessee became the 16th state. Margaret Gardenhire The Blair family wins the suit brought burning the Loudon railroad bridge Carmichael born against them by Chief Pathkiller for 1898 A steamboat called the Atlas made its way up river in 1828, but it wasn’t until the A vital component in Loudon’s early property rights at Blair’s Ferry November 10, 1861 James H. Carmichael dies 1796 development, steamships churned up and down The Sixteenth Alabama Infantry set Tennessee admitted to the Tennessee River transporting goods and 1835 up camp at both ends of the Loudon 1908 people to and from this historic riverfront town. Site of Blairs Ferry mid 1830s that steamboats made regular stops in the area. By the Union as the 16th State By this time, steamboats are stopping bridge for constant surveillance Melissa Clementine Johnston regularly at Blair’s Ferry Wilson dies in New York City then, James, John and Wiley Blair had established a 1801 June 19, 1863 Roane County was created by an act February 21, 1836 Union Colonel William P. Sanders 1910 Loudon Fire and Police Station steamboat landing, store and several houses in the little settlement, which they of the Tennessee State Legislature. The Tennessee General Assembly raids Lenoir Station, later known as R. T. Wilson dies in New York City (Loudon County was originally part of grants permission to the Hiwassee Lenoir City, and strikes the railroad Roane County) Railroad Company to build a road April 14/15, 1912 Proposed River House dubbed Blair’s Ferry. As in many towns and cities The Loudon Bridge was of vital importance to 1865 I from Blair’s Ferry to the across Tennessee, the Civil War September 6, 1863 soldiers on both sides of the Tennessee River and Titanic sinks. John Jacob Astor IV Senior Apartments The Mason Place was built in Loudon 1810 Georgia-Tennessee line left Loudon in disarray as both After CSA General Simon Bolivar both sides of the Civil War. Twice in 1863 it was perishes. His sister, Carrie Astor, is by Thomas Jefferson Mason, a Although members of the community did business together and Carmichael Inn completed by Union and Confederate Troops Buckner evacuates Knoxville and burned only to be rebuilt again in 1864. The the wife of R.T. Wilson’s son, made their way through the state. East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad rebuilt it riverboat captain and Union John Hudson Carmichael 1840 crosses over the Loudon bridge Marshall Orme Wilson Historic Pathkiller Storehouse yet again in 1867. At 1,700 feet long and 85 feet sympathizer intermarried, the settlement wasn’t without its share of strife. In accordance John Hudson Carmichael dies headed for Chattanooga, the high, it was a testament to the great engineering 1817 Confederates burn the bridge feats of its day. 1927 April 9, 1865 Triangle James Blair and family begin 1848 Loudon toll bridge is started with certain provisions laid out in the Hiwassee Confederate General Robert E. Lee Park Carmichael Inn Orme Wilson controlling traffic across the The East Tennessee and October 20, 1863 Public Boat Ramp surrenders to Union General Ulysses Building Tennessee River. They dubbed the Georgia Railroad is established The Battle of Philadelphia is fought 1947 S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse Purchase of 1819, a Cherokee chief named Pathkiller community Blair’s Ferry, which would at Philadelphia, Tennessee The Loudon bridge comes a free road in Virginia signaling the end of the BURNSIDE eventually become the town of 1851 Historic Civil War laid claim to the property on which James Blair had Loudon Blair’s Ferry renamed Blairsville November 14-15, 1863 Following the Battle of Chickamauga on 1987 Courthouse CSA General James Longstreet September 19-20, 1863, CSA General James Carmichael Inn purchased by Loudon The locomotive would drastically change the face July 24, 1866 Longstreet moved from Chattanooga to 1819 of travel in the United States linking 1852 marches his troops through County Heritage Association and established his home and business. Blair was ordered off the land but filed suit in the Tennessee readmitted to the Union Knoxville in an attempt to recapture Due to certain provisions in the East and West like never before. Unfortunately, The Orme-Wilson Loudon to cross the Tennessee River Sherman Longstreet Knoxville. During this time, General moved across the river to present site TVA Park Hiwassee Purchase, Cherokee Chief the country would be torn asunder from North to Storehouse was built at Huff’s Ferry Burnside sent a detachment of men to the Tennessee Supreme Court. A fifteen year battle ensued with Blair’s heirs winning South as the Civil War loomed on the horizon. Headed toward Knoxville, Union General June 2, 1870 Loudon area. They set up headquarters in Pathkiller claimed land on which 1991 William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops arrive in Christiana County is formed the Wiley Blair Home which was located Blair’s Ferry was established. James 1852 December 3, 1863 Loudon on December 4, 1863 where they between Loudon and Lenoir City. The Loudon County Museum the lands back from the heirs of Pathkiller about 1834. Blair files suit to regain ownership The first newspaper in Confederate troops again burn the skirmished with the retreating Confederates who at the Carmichael Inn opens Loudon County July 7, 1870 Loudon County, the Loudon Loudon bridge to prevent it falling had burned the bridge and ran trains into the Senior Center river to keep them out of the Union’s hands. Christiana County November 6, 1826 Free Press, is published into enemy hands 2006 renamed Loudon County James Blair dies During November 14-15, 1863, CSA General Carmichael Inn December 23, 1852 December 4, 1863 James Longstreet’s men built a pontoon bridge re-opened Lakeside Village With the establishment of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad in With both a railroad terminus and a steamboat port, Blair’s Ferry September 5, 1870 January 1827 R. T. Wilson married Loudon resident Union General William Tecumseh across the Tennessee River at Huff’s Ferry. Union as upscale and Confederate forces engaged one another in The first County Court was organized 1848, this small community experienced rapid growth. In 1851, sensing an prospered. It became a popular site for transferring merchandise and Chief Pathkiller dies Melissa Clementine Johnston Sherman’s troops arrive in Loudon restaurant Legion minor skirmishes before clashing again at in the Baptist Church in Loudon Field opportunity for profit, Wiley Blair laid out a town and dubbed it travelers from the river to the railroad. In 1858, the name of the town was Campbell’s Station and Knoxville. 1852-1854 March 1864 1871 Blairsville. Unfortunately, he failed to sell any lots and the next year he was changed to Loudon in honor of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, a The railroad bridge in Harper’s Bizarre ran this rendering of the Loudon Union troops complete a Margaret Gardenhire Carmichael dies Loudon is under construction Bridge with the caption, “The railroad bridge over temporary bridge at Loudon 2006 forced to sell the land to S.
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