Colonel Gilbert Christian

Historical marker location:

Kingsport, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Netherland Inn Road and Lilac Street, on the left when traveling east on Netherland Inn Road.)

Marker installed: 1976

1734 - 1793. First Permanent Settler in Kingsport.

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.