Historical Marker
Cave Johnson
Historical marker location:
916 Madison Street, Clarksville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Madison Street (Alternate U.S. 41) 0.1 miles east of Greenwood Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)
1793 - 1866.
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.