State Seal

Historical marker location:

Jonesborough, Tennessee

( Marker is on East Jackson Boulevard (U.S. 11E) 0.1 miles east of Boone Street, in the median.)

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.