Historical Marker
Wait Field
Historical marker location:
Knoxville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Phillip Fulmer Way south of Cumberland Avenue (U.S. 70), on the right when traveling south.)
(1908-1920). The Hill.
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.