Historical Marker
Old Deery Inn
Historical marker location:
3397 Bristol Highway, Blountville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Bristol Highway (Tennessee Route 126) west of Anderson Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Refuge from the Storm.
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.