Thomas Hart Benton

Historical marker location:

4338 Old Hillsboro Rd, Leiper's Fork, Tennessee

( Marker is on Old Hillsboro Road (State Highway 46) 0.1 miles east of Wilkins Branch Road, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2010

(1782-1858).

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.