SMITH'S CROSSROADS 2B 28
Posted by: Better Half
N 35° 29.241 W 085° 01.169
16S E 679659 N 3928893
Smith's Crossroads in Dayton, TN
Waymark Code: WM23YT
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 08/30/2007
Views: 58
SMITH'S CROSSROADS
Named for pioneer settler William Smith, a New England teacher and merchant, who settled here in 1820., it was the junction of the Kiuka War Trace (later Black Fox Trail) to the Cumberland and the main north-south Indian trail to the Great Lakes. Here in 1838 the Trail of Tears crossed the Tennessee Valley from Blythes Ferry. Named Sequatchie with the coming of the railroad in the late 1870s, it was soon renamed Dayton. Scottish industrialists developed coal and iron resources in the 1880s.
Marker Name: SMITH'S CROSSROADS
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Person
Marker Number: 2B 28
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: Tennessee Historical Commission
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