John W. Thomas

Historical marker location:

2600 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on 27th Avenue North, 0.3 miles north of West End Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1907

1830 - 1906.

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.