What to see in America . one graves of the long-vanishedmound building race. On Christmas Day, 1779, more thantwo hundred hardy pioneers from eastern Tennessee arrivedat the salt spring. Late in the same month their familiesstarted to join them in the good boat Adwnture/ whichcarried a sail, and in other boats and canoes. They camedown the Holston and Tennessee rivers, and up the Ohioand Cumberland, a winding journey of over a thousand miles,and arrived April 24, a good deal depleted by hostileIndians, accidents, and disease. One of the voyagers wasRachel Donelson, who afterward became mistres
What to see in America . one graves of the long-vanishedmound building race. On Christmas Day, 1779, more thantwo hundred hardy pioneers from eastern Tennessee arrivedat the salt spring. Late in the same month their familiesstarted to join them in the good boat Adwnture/ whichcarried a sail, and in other boats and canoes. They camedown the Holston and Tennessee rivers, and up the Ohioand Cumberland, a winding journey of over a thousand miles,and arrived April 24, a good deal depleted by hostileIndians, accidents, and disease. One of the voyagers wasRachel Donelson, who afterward became mistress of theWhite House as the wife of President Jackson. Cabins anda fort were built on the commanding bluff north of theriver, and for the time being the settlement was the advance guard of western civ-j^ ilization. One day J^ the savages made a ^S surprise attack, and forced their way al-most to the gates ofthe fort located nearthe present corner ofMarket and Churchstreets. At an op-State House, Nashville portune moment a. Tennessee 211 pack of powerful watch-dogs and hounds wasturned loose. With theirhelp the Battle of theBluffs was won, and thefort and settlement weresaved. Nashville became thecapital in 1843. It wascaptured by a Unionarmy in February, 1862,after desperate , Sherman, andGrant all held commandthere at different Southern soldierswho fell in the battlesaround the city areburied in the beautifulgrounds of the Confeder-ate Circle at Mt. Olivet,while the Federal deadsleep peacefully in theNational Cemetery not far away. Within the city limits are fully eighty schoolsand colleges, including the famous Fisk University for theeducation of negro teachers, which was founded in 1867,and which its Jubilee Singers sang into success. The statelyresidence of James K. Polk, eleventh President of theUnited States, still stands in the center of the miles east is the Hermitage, the hospitable mansionof President Andrew Jackson. In a corner of
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