Historical Markers in
Hardin County, Tennessee

11th Illinois Infantry 11th Illinois Infantry 11th Iowa Infantry 11th Iowa Infantry 11th Iowa Infantry 11th Iowa Infantry 11th Kentucky Infantry 11th Louisiana, 22nd Tennessee 12th Illinois Infantry 12th Illinois Infantry 12th Illinois Infantry - 13th Missouri Infantry 12th Iowa Infantry 12th Iowa Infantry 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment 12th Michigan Infantry 12th Michigan Infantry 12th Michigan Infantry 12th Tennessee Infantry 12th Tennessee Infantry 13th Arkansas Infantry 13th Iowa Infantry 13th Iowa Infantry 13th Iowa Infantry 13th Iowa Infantry 13th Iowa Infantry 13th Iowa Infantry 13th Kentucky Infantry 13th Missouri Infantry 13th Missouri Infantry 13th Ohio Infantry 13th Tennessee Infantry 13th Tennessee Infantry 14th Illinois - 25th Indiana 14th Illinois - 25th Indiana 14th Illinois Infantry 14th Illinois Infantry 14th Illinois Infantry 14th Iowa Infantry 14th Iowa Infantry 14th Iowa Infantry Regiment 14th Missouri Infantry 14th Ohio Battery 14th Wisconsin Infantry 14th Wisconsin Infantry 154th Tennessee Infantry 15th Illinois - 25th Indiana 15th Illinois Infantry 15th Indiana Infantry 15th Iowa Infantry 15th Iowa Infantry 15th Michigan Infantry 15th Michigan Infantry 15th Michigan Infantry 15th Michigan Infantry 15th Ohio Infantry 16th Alabama, 55th Tennessee 16th Iowa Infantry 16th Wisconsin Infantry 16th Wisconsin Infantry 16th Wisconsin Infantry 16th Wisconsin Infantry 17th Illinois Infantry 17th Illinois Infantry 17th Illinois Infantry 17th Illinois Infantry - 49th Illinois Infantry 17th Illinois Infantry - 49th Illinois Infantry 17th Indiana Infantry 17th Kentucky Infantry 18th Illinois Infantry 18th Illinois Infantry 18th Lousiana - Orleans Guard - 16th Louisiana 18th Missouri Infantry 18th Missouri Infantry 18th Missouri Infantry 18th Wisconsin Infantry 18th Wisconsin Infantry 19th Alabama - 2nd Texas 19th Alabama Monument 19th Louisiana Infantry 19th Ohio Infantry 1st Mississippi Cavalry 1st Ohio Infantry 1st Tennessee Infantry Battalion and 9th Tennessee Infantry Regiment 21st Missouri and Pickets 21st Missouri and pickets 21st Missouri Infantry 21st Missouri Infantry 21st Missouri Infantry 22nd Alabama Infantry - 1st Louisiana Infantry 22nd Tennessee Infantry 22nd Tennessee, 11th Louisiana 23rd Missouri Infantry 23rd Missouri Infantry 23rd Missouri Infantry 24th Kentucky Infantry 24th Ohio Infantry 25th Indiana - 14th Illinois 25th Indiana Infantry Regiment 25th Kentucky Infantry 25th Missouri Infantry 25th Missouri Infantry 25th Missouri Infantry 26th Alabama - 21st Alabama 28th Ill., 32nd Ill., 41st Ill. 28th Illinois Infantry 28th Illinois Infantry 29th Illinois Infantry 29th Illinois Infantry 29th Indiana Infantry 2d Iowa Infantry 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 4th Illinois Cavalry 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment 2nd Iowa Infantry 2nd Iowa Infantry 30th Indiana Infantry 30th Indiana Infantry 31st Indiana Infantry 32d Illinois Infantry 32nd Illinois Infantry 32nd Illinois Infantry 32nd Indiana Infantry 33d Tennessee Infantry 33rd Tennessee Infantry 36th Indiana Infantry 38th Tennessee Infantry 38th Tennessee Infantry 38th Tennessee Infantry 38th TN, 18th LA, Orleans Guard, 16th LA 3rd Confederate Infantry 3rd Iowa Infantry 3rd Iowa Infantry 3rd Iowa Infantry 3rd Mississippi Infantry Battalion 40th Illinois - 6th Iowa Infantry Regiments 40th Illinois Infantry 40th Indiana Infantry 41st Ohio Infantry 43rd Illinois Infantry 43rd Illinois Infantry 43rd Illinois Infantry 43rd Illinois Infantry 44th Indiana Infantry 45th Illinois Infantry 45th Illinois Infantry 45th Illinois Infantry 46th Illinois Infantry 46th Illinois Infantry 46th Illinois Infantry 46th Illinois Infantry 46th Illinois Infantry 46th Ohio Infantry 49th Illinois Infantry 49th Illinois Infantry 49th Illinois Infantry 49th Ohio Infantry 4th Tennessee Infantry 4th Tennessee Infantry 4th Tennessee Infantry 4th Tennessee Infantry 50th Illinois Infantry 50th Illinois Infantry 51st Indiana Infantry 52nd Illinois Infantry 52nd Illinois Infantry 53rd Ohio Infantry 53rd Ohio Infantry 53rd Ohio Infantry 53rd Ohio Infantry 54th Ohio Infantry 54th Ohio Infantry 54th Ohio Infantry - 55th Illinois Infantry 55th Illinois Infantry 55th Illinois Infantry 55th Illinois Infantry 56th Ohio Infantry 57th Illinois Infantry 57th Illinois Infantry 57th Illinois Infantry 57th Illinois Monument 57th Indiana Infantry 58th Illinois Infantry 58th Illinois Infantry 58th Indiana Infantry Regiment 59th Ohio Infantry 5th Kentucky Infantry 5th Ohio Cavalry 5th Tennessee Infantry 5th Tennessee, 24th Tennessee, 15th Arkansas 61st Illinois Infantry 61st Illinois Infantry 61st Illinois Infantry 61st Illinois Infantry 64th Ohio Infantry 65th Ohio Infantry 68th Ohio Infantry 6th and 9th Tennessee Infantry 6th Indiana Infantry 6th Iowa Infantry 6th Iowa Infantry 6th Kentucky Infantry 6th Mississippi and 23d Tennessee 6th Ohio Infantry 6th Ohio Infantry 70th Ohio Infantry 71st Ohio Infantry 71st Ohio Infantry 77th Pennsylvania Infantry 77th Pennsylvania Infantry 7th Arkansas and 2d Arkansas 7th Arkansas and 2d Arkansas 7th Illinois Infantry 7th Illinois Infantry 7th Illinois Infantry 7th Illinois Infantry 7th Iowa Infantry 7th Iowa Infantry 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment 81st Ohio Infantry 81st Ohio Infantry 81st Ohio Infantry 81st Ohio Infantry 8th and 18th Illinois Infantry 8th and 9th Arkansas Battalions 8th Illinois Infantry 8th Illinois Infantry 8th Illinois, 18th Illinois, 13th Iowa 8th Iowa Infantry 8th Iowa Infantry 8th Iowa Infantry 8th Iowa Infantry 9th Arkansas Battalion - 8th Arkansas - 27th Tennessee - 44th Tennessee 9th Illinois Infantry 9th Illinois Infantry 9th Illinois Infantry 9th Illinois Infantry 9th Indiana Infantry 9th Kentucky Infantry Alabama State Memorial Anderson's Brigade Anderson's Brigade Anderson's Brigade Anderson's Brigade Anderson's Brigade Anderson's Brigade Approach to Shiloh Approach to Shiloh Arkansas Memorial Army of the Mississippi Army of the Mississippi Army of the Ohio Army of the Ohio Army of the Tennessee Army of the Tennessee Bankhead's Tennessee Battery Bankhead's Tennessee Battery Bankhead's Tennessee Battery, 11th Louisiana Infantry Bartlett's Battery Bate's 2nd Tennessee Infantry Batteries H and M, 4th U.S. Artillery / Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery Battery A, 1st Illinois Artillery Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Battle Reaches Duncan's Farm Battle Returns to Duncan's Farm Battlefield Preserved Beauregard's Last Stand Bloody Pond Bouton's Battery Bowen's Brigade Bowen's Brigade Bowen's Brigade Boyle's Brigade Boyle's Brigade Brewer's Battalion Brig. Gen. Adley H. Gladden Bruce's Brigade Bruce's Brigade Buckland's Brigade Buckland's Brigade Buckland's Brigade Burrow's Battery Byrne's Mississippi Battery Byrne's Mississippi Battery Camp of 11th Illinois Infantry Camp of 13th Iowa Infantry Camp of 15th Illinois Infantry Camp of 16th Wisconsin Infantry Camp of 18th Illinois Infantry Camp of 18th Missouri Infantry Camp of 18th Wisconsin Infantry Camp of 1st and 2nd Battalions, 11th Illinois Cavalry Camp of 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th Ohio Cavalry Camp of 1st Battalion, 4th Illinois Cavalry Camp of 20th Illinois Infantry Camp of 25th Missouri Infantry Camp of 28th Illinois Infantry Camp of 32nd Illinois Infantry Camp of 3d Iowa Infantry Camp of 41st Illinois Infantry Camp of 43rd Illinois Infantry Camp of 45th Illinois Infantry Camp of 48th Illinois Infantry Camp of 48th Ohio Infantry Camp of 49th Illinois Infantry Camp of 53rd Ohio Infantry Camp of 61st Illinois Infantry Camp of 72nd Ohio Infantry Camp of 77th Ohio Infantry Camp of 8th Illinois Infantry Camp of 9th Illinois Infantry Camp of Burrow's Battery Camp of Dresser's Battery Camp of McAllister's Battery Camp of Munch's Battery Camp of Powell's Battery Camp of Richardson's Battery Camp of Schwartz's Battery Camp of Waterhouse's Battery Chalmers' Brigade Chalmers' Brigade Chalmers' Brigade Chalmers' Brigade Chalmers' Brigade Chalmers' Brigade Changing Size and Color Cherry Mansion Civilian Conservation Corps Clanton's Alabama Cavalry Cleburne's (2d) Brigade Cleburne's Brigade Cleburne's Brigade Cobb's Kentucky Battery Colonel Everett Peabody Colonel Julius Raith Confederate Attack Confederate Burial Trench Confederate Burial Trench Confederate Burial Trench #2 Confederate Memorial Confederate Offense Stalls Confederate Repulse Confederate Retreat Conquer or Perish Crescent (La.) Regiment Crescent (La.) Regiment Crescent (La.) Regiment Crescent Regiment Cross Roads Death of General Johnston Defeated Victory Dresser's Battery Dresser's Battery Dresser's Battery End of a Long, Hard Day End of a Long, Hard Day Field Hospital Fifth Division Fifth Division, Army of the Tennessee Fighting Consumes Bell's Farm First Division, Army of the Tennessee First Engagement on Shiloh Battlefield First Minnesota Light Artillery Follow, Not Go! Forest, Farms, and Creeks Forrest's Tennessee Cavalry Fourth Division Gage's Alabama Battery General Albert Sidney Johnston General Albert Sidney Johnston Gibson's Brigade Gibson's Brigade Gibson's Brigade Girardey's Georgia Battery Girardey's Georgia Battery Gladden's Brigade Gladden's Brigade Gladden's Brigade Grant at Cherry Mansion Grant Hammers the Confederates Grant's Last Line Gunboats on the River Gunboats Tyler and Lexington Hardin County Confederate Memorial Hare's Brigade Harper's Mississippi Battery Harper's Mississippi Battery Harper's Mississippi Battery Hazen's Brigade Hazen's Brigade Headquarters General U. S. Grant Hickenlooper's Battery Hickenlooper's Battery Hickenlooper's Battery Hill's (5th) Tennessee - 23rd Tennessee - 24th Tennessee Historic Crossing Hubbard's Arkansas Battery Hungry Soldiers and Souvenirs Illinois Cavalry Illinois Cavalry Camp Illinois Memorial Impenetrable Thicket Invasion of the Union Camps Iowa Memorial Jackson's Brigade Jackson's Brigade Jackson's Brigade Johnson's Brigade Johnson's Brigade Johnson's Brigade Johnson's Brigade Johnston's Last Bivouac Joseph Hardin Kentucky Regiments at Battle of Shiloh Ketchum's Alabama Battery Ketchum's Alabama Battery Ketchum's Alabama Battery Ketchum's Alabama Battery Kirk's Brigade Lauman's Brigade Lauman's Brigade Lauman's Brigade Mann's Battery Mann's Battery Mann's Battery Marsh's Brigade Marsh's Brigade Marsh's Brigade McAllister's Battery McAllister's Battery McAllister's Battery McAllister's Battery McAllister's Battery McArthur McClernand's Headquarters McClung's Tennessee Battery Mendenhall's Battery Mendenhall's Battery Mississippi Monument Mississippian Indians Missouri Morgan's Cavalry Morton's Battery Munch's Battery Munch's Battery Myers' Battery Oglesby-Hare HQ Monument Ohio 48th Infantry Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery Order from Chaos Peabody's Hunch Pittsburg Landing Polk's Tennessee Battery Powell's Battery Powell's Battery Prentiss Surrender Site Putnam Stump Return to Bell's Farm Richardson's Battery Richardson's Battery Richardson's Battery Richardson's Battery Robertson's Alabama Battery Robertson's Alabama Battery Robertson's Alabama Battery Roberts' Arkansas Battery Ross Ross' Battery Ross' Battery Ross's Battery Camp Rousseau's Brigade Rousseau's Brigade Ruggles' Batteries Russell's Brigade Russell's Brigade Russell's Brigade Rutledge's Tennessee Battery Rutledge's Tennessee Battery Rutledge's Tennessee Battery Schwartz's Battery Schwartz's Battery Schwartz's Battery Schwartz's Battery Second Division Second Tennessee Regiment Shaver's Brigade Shaver's Brigade Shaver's Brigade Shaver's Brigade Shaver's Brigade Sherman's Headquarters Shiloh Church Shiloh Indian Mounds Shiloh Log Church Shiloh National Cemetery Shiloh School Shiloh United Methodist Church Shiloh’s Casualties Siege Guns Sifting the Evidence Sixth Division Smith's Brigade Smith's Brigade Smith's Brigade Smith's Brigade Smith's Mississippi Battery Smith's Mississippi Battery Stanford's Mississippi Battery Statham's Brigade Statham's Brigade Stephens' Brigade Stephens' Brigade Stephens' Brigade Stewart's Brigade Stewart's Brigade Stone's Battery Stone's Battery Strategic Location Stuart Surrender in the Thicket Surrender of the Hornets' Nest Swett's Mississippi Battery Swett's Mississippi Battery Swett's Mississippi Battery Taylor's Battery Tennessee Monument Terrill's Battery Terrill's Battery Texas Thayer's Brigade Thayer's Brigade The Battle Begins The Bloody Sixth The Cherry Mansion The Cost of Battle The Counterattack Buys Time The Hornets' Nest The Lost Petrified Forests of Savannah, Tennessee The Peach Orchard The Turbine Thompson's Battery Thompson's Battery Thousands of Wounded Thunder in the Thicket Thurber's Battery Thurber's Battery Trabue's Brigade Trabue's Brigade Trabue's Brigade Trabue's Kentucky Battery Trigg's Arkansas Battery Union Line of Defense US Regulars Infantry Monument Veatch Veatch's Brigade Veatch's Brigade Venable's Tenn. Infantry Veterans Marker Vibrant Community Violent Sabbath Vision for Victory W.S. "Fluke" Holland Walker's (2nd) Tennessee Infantry War Comes to Savannah War Memorial War on the River Washington (La.) Artillery Washington (La.) Artillery Washington (La.) Artillery Waterhouse's Battery Welcome Welker's Battery Welker's Battery Welker's Battery Welker's Battery Wharton's Texas Rangers Whittlesey's Brigade Whittlesey's Brigade WHL Wallace Mortuary Monument Willard's Battery Willard's Battery Willard's Battery Williams' Brigade Williams' Brigade Wisconsin State Monument Wood's Brigade Wood's Brigade Wood's Brigade Wood's Brigade Wood's Brigade "Hornets Nest"
The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, was originally built as a church in 1892. It later became one of the most famous music venues in the world and is often referred to as the "Mother Church of Country Music."
Tennessee random facts
Hardin County, Tennessee, located in the southwestern part of the state, has a rich and diverse history. The area was originally inhabited by various Native American tribes, including the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations. European exploration and settlement began in the late 18th century, with the establishment of the first permanent white settlement in the area around 1817.

During the early 19th century, Hardin County saw increased migration and settlement by European Americans. The county was officially established in 1819 and named after Joseph Hardin, a Revolutionary War veteran. Its location along the Tennessee River and proximity to the Mississippi River made it a significant transportation hub, leading to the development of trade, commerce, and agriculture.

A pivotal event in the county's history took place during the Civil War. Hardin County was heavily contested between Union and Confederate forces, as it straddled the Tennessee River. The Battle of Shiloh, fought in April 1862, was one of the bloodiest battles of the war and had a significant impact on the county. Following the war, the region faced numerous challenges, including rebuilding and recovering from the destruction.

In the 20th century, Hardin County developed into a popular tourist destination due to its natural beauty and outdoor recreational opportunities. The creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the construction of the Pickwick Landing Dam in the 1930s further boosted the local economy and provided a reliable source of electricity. Today, Hardin County continues to thrive, attracting visitors with its scenic landscapes, historical sites, and vibrant community.

This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Hardin County, Tennessee.

  • 1819 - Hardin County was established and named after Joseph Hardin, a Revolutionary War soldier
  • 1827 - Savannah was established as the county seat
  • 1862 - Battle of Shiloh took place on April 6-7 during the Civil War
  • 1864 - Savannah was occupied by Union forces during the Civil War
  • 1904 - Savannah was incorporated as a town
  • 1915 - Pickwick Landing Dam on the Tennessee River was completed, bringing economic development to the area
  • 1933 - Pickwick Landing State Park was established, becoming a popular recreational destination
  • 1950s - The construction of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams in the county led to the creation of Pickwick Lake and increased tourism
  • 1974 - Hardin County was designated a Certified Retirement Community by the State of Tennessee
  • 1984 - The Buford Pusser Home and Museum opened in Adamsville, honoring the former sheriff and local legend
  • 2008 - The Tennessee River Museum opened in Savannah, showcasing the history and importance of the river in the area