Scattersville Community

Historical marker location:

1011 TN 52, Portland, Tennessee

( Marker is on State Highway 52, 0.1 miles west of New Deal Potts Road, on the right when traveling west.)

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.