National Register Listing
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Davis Bridge Battlefield
a.k.a. 40HM106;Hatchie Bridge Battlefield
Roughly along Ripley-Pocahontas and Essary Spring Rds, Pocahontas, TN Local significance of the site: Military; Historic - Non-aboriginal
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
About National Register Listings
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.
Tennessee was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist organization that terrorized African Americans and other minority groups throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.