. Historic towns of the Southern States. eby water around the long, winding circuit ofthe Holston, the Tennessee, the Ohio and theCumberland up to the Cumberland Bluffs wasmore than a thousand miles. Captain Donel-sons interesting journal, kept during the four-months journey and still preserved amongthe treasures of the Tennessee Historical Soci-ety, recounts in plain and modest words astory of heroism, of thrilling adventures, ofsingular pathos, scarcely equaled in the annalsof our American frontier. It was a midwinterjourney. The voyagers were attacked bythe savage Chickamauga Indians. Their
. Historic towns of the Southern States. eby water around the long, winding circuit ofthe Holston, the Tennessee, the Ohio and theCumberland up to the Cumberland Bluffs wasmore than a thousand miles. Captain Donel-sons interesting journal, kept during the four-months journey and still preserved amongthe treasures of the Tennessee Historical Soci-ety, recounts in plain and modest words astory of heroism, of thrilling adventures, ofsingular pathos, scarcely equaled in the annalsof our American frontier. It was a midwinterjourney. The voyagers were attacked bythe savage Chickamauga Indians. Their frailboats were swept through unknown rapidsand floods. They had to force their way upthe Ohio and Cumberland rivers. Many of theparty perished, some were shot down by theIndians, others were wounded and ill; but Nashville 483 with thankful hearts the survivors finallyreached their anxious friends at the BigSalt Lick on the Cumberland, April 24,1780. It was a joyful meeting, a reunionof happy families, long remembered in THE FIRST RESIDENCE OF ANDREW JACKSON. The commanding bluff on the south side ofthe river seemed an ideal home for the newcolony, united, hopeful and enthusiastic. Therich valley and the winding river addedbeauty to the landscape. Ranges of nobleand picturesque hills, not far distant, sur-rounded the site. The land was of pure water abounded, and here in 4^4 Nashville the far western wilderness was planted the newgerm of civilization, which in after years was togrow and blossom into rich fruition. In honorof General Nash, of North Carolina, a dis-tinguished officer of the Revolution, the vil-lage was christened Nashboroueh. And now the cheery sound of the woodmansaxe rancr out in the forest. Cabins were land was cleared and crops were forts were erected, planned after the goodmodel of the fort at Watauo^a that had savedthe precious lives of the little parent colonyfrom the assaults of the Cherokees. A regim
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