Gabriel McKissack - Pulaski TN
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Don.Morfe
N 35° 12.384 W 087° 01.518
16S E 497697 N 3895932
Gabriel Moses McKissack (1840-1923) laid the foundation in Giles County for a family building tradition that included the first black architectural firm in the United States, Nashville's McKissack and McKissack.
Waymark Code: WM17EEZ
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/06/2023
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TEXT ON THE TENNESSEE HISTORICAL MARKER
Gabriel McKissack
During the years following the Civil War, Gabriel Moses McKissack (1840-1923) laid the foundation in Giles County for a family building tradition that included the first black architectural firm in the United States, Nashville's McKissack and McKissack. Numerous building throughout Tennessee were designed by the McKissack firm. A carpenter and a son of a master craftsman and freedman Moses I. Gabriel fathered six sons with whom many Giles County buildings are associated.
Erected by Tennessee Historical Commission. (Marker Number 3F 40.)
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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