Aaron Venable Brown

Historical marker location:

Elkton, Tennessee

( Marker is on Elkton Highway (U.S. 31) near Rose Road, on the right when traveling south.)

1795-1859.

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.