Fort McCook

Historical marker location:

South Pittsburg, Tennessee

( Marker is on Jaycee Drive/Rivers Landing Road, 0.2 miles south of Cedar Avenue (U.S. 72), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2008

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail.

The first self-made female millionaire in the United States was Sarah Breedlove, also known as Madam C.J. Walker. She was born on a plantation near Delta, Tennessee, in 1867.