Historical Marker
Champ Ferguson
Historical marker location:
Crab Orchard, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Interstate 40, 2.8 miles Exit 329 (Interstate 40), on the right when traveling west.)
Confederate Partisan of the Cumberlands.
The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.