Historical Marker
Confederate Park
Historical marker location:
Fayetteville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Elk Avenue South and College Street East (Business U.S. 64), on the left when traveling north on Elk Avenue South.)
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.