Historical Marker
Webb Hotel
Historical marker location:
281 Great Falls Rd, Rock Island, Tennessee
( Marker is on Great Falls Road (Tennessee Route 287) south of H G Hill Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Ca. 1910.
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.