Tennessee History 4 College Students: Ramsey House
My first installment of Tennessee History 4 College Students! I went to the Ramsey House in Knoxville, Tennessee for a Tennessee History Project.
Haunted Tennessee: The Ramsey House
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Ramsey House Plantation in Knoxville, TN
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Official Trailer: Historic Hauntings ~ A Paranormal Study of Ramsey House
Historic Hauntings ~ A Paranormal Study of Ramsey House | Released February 28th 2015
Knoxville Holstons v. Mountain City, Ramsey House (April 9, 2016)
Knoxville Holstons played the Mountain City Club of Chattanooga in a match game of base ball at Colonel Ramsey's Plantation. The visiting club bested the home club 11-3 on opening day of the Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball's 2016 season.
Ramsey Paranormal Research A109
This is the third unit of an apartment complex we investigated. It was a real learning experience for all of us.
Inside the Ramsey House Plantation
Ramsey House Executive Director Sherrie Shuler talks about the historic house and its importance to Knoxville.
Historic Homes of Knoxville Tennessee
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To learn more about the Historic Homes of Knoxville go to hhknoxville.org.
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Music- Vine Street Rag Tennessee Chocolate Drops (1930) courtesy of TAMIS (Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound)
Voiceover- David Dwyer
Places to see in ( Knoxville - USA )
Places to see in ( Knoxville - USA )
Knoxville is a city on the Tennessee River in eastern Tennessee. Downtown, the Market Square district has 19th-century buildings with shops and restaurants. The Museum of East Tennessee History has interactive exhibits plus regional art, textiles and Civil War artifacts. James White’s Fort, built by the Revolutionary War captain, includes the reconstructed 1786 log cabin that was Knoxville’s first permanent building.
Knoxville is in Eastern Tennessee, United States. It is the third-largest city in the state. It is the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus (UTK) and site of the 1982 World's Fair. Knoxville is on the Tennessee River about an hour from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Once called the 'scruffy little city', the downtown is undergoing a rapid renaissance as young people move into the lofts and apartments created from the factories and warehouses of another era. On any evening of the week, throngs of residents and visitors can be seen at the sidewalk cafes, theaters, restaurants and night clubs along Gay Street and Market Square. The University of Tennessee, with its 27,000 students, is within walking distance of the downtown, separated only by the World's Fair Park.
One can still see remnants of the 1982 World's Fair in the Sunsphere, a rising structure topped with a gold sphere which dots Knoxville's skyline, however, most of the other structures from the Fair were removed to create a large city park which attracts families, students, and artists on weekends and sunny days. The World's Fair brought a lot of attention and development to the city, including high-rise office structures, and the four-star Hilton, Crowne Plaza and Marriott hotels.
Knoxville is home to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, but the city seems dominated by the University of Tennessee Volunteers (men only) and Lady Volunteers athletics. The basketball teams play in the 21,000+ seat Thompson Boling Arena, and the nationally recognized football team plays in Neyland Stadium, one of the largest on-campus stadiums in the world at 103,000 seating capacity. During the fall you will find plenty of orange in the foliage, but you will see Big Orange year round with the people of Knoxville.
Dubbed a 'scruffy little city' by the Wall Street Journal before the 1982 World's Fair, Knoxville is strutting its stuff these days as an increasingly prominent and well-polished destination for outdoor, gastronomy and craft-beer enthusiasts. Knoxville is also home to the University of Tennessee and its rabid college-football fan base. On game days the whole town is painted orange as fans pack Neyland Stadium to watch the beloved Volunteers. But there's more to Knoxville than football. No longer content to play second fiddle to nearby Chattanooga and Asheville, the city – a former textiles production center – now touts itself as a base camp for visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sugarlands Visitor Center is just 29 miles away, and Knoxville is a far more enticing spot to eat and drink than other cities near the park. For hikers and mountain bikers, the city's ever-expanding Urban Wilderness is becoming its own reason to visit.
A lot to see in Knoxville TN such as :
Ijams Nature Center
Little River
Zoo Knoxville
Sunsphere
Downtown Knoxville
Market Square
World's Fair Park
Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum
Frank H. McClung Museum
Seven Islands State Birding Park
Fountain City
House Mountain
Knoxville Museum of Art
The Muse Knoxville
Mead's Quarry Lake
Legacy Parks Foundation
Dogwood Arts
Forks of the River Wildlife Management Area
Old City, Knoxville
East Tennessee Historical Society and Museum
Gay Street
Concord Cove Park
Lakeshore Park
Concord Park
Victor Ashe Park
UT Gardens
Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
Historic Cherokee Caverns
Fort Sanders, Knoxville
Sequoyah Hills, Knoxville
JumpJam Trampoline Park
Three Rivers Rambler
Baker Creek Preserve - Parking Lot
Blount Mansion
Navitat Knoxville
Historic Ramsey House
Fort Dickerson Park
Chilhowee Park & Exposition Center
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park
Fort Dickerson Quarry
James White Fort
House Mountain State Natural Area
Volunteer Landing Lane
High Ground Park
Tyson Park
Emporium Center / Arts & Culture Alliance
Crescent Bend House & Garden
PetSafe Village
Sequoyah Park
( Knoxville - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Knoxville . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Knoxville - USA
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Austin Cook Franklin TN Paranormal Activity
My feature with Austin Cook. A franklin TN native that hosts his own show on SYFY Channel about paranormal activity
Episode 2435.3 | Bleak House | Tennessee Crossroads
Virtually every town in Tennessee became a battleground during the Civil War and Knoxville, TN was no exception. Tennessee Crossroads' Gretchen Bates take us to a Knoxville Mansion that was right in the middle of the fight. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more about Bleak House.
Historic Homes of Knoxville • 2011 Founders Day Luncheon • Knoxville, TN
The Historic House Museums of Knoxville are pleased to invite the public to a luncheon to celebrate the founding of the City of Knoxville 220 years ago. First Lady of Tennessee Crissy Haslam will be the featured speaker. Knoxville's key leaders will come together to celebrate and promote the city and its most precious properties, including Blount Mansion, Crescent Bend House & Gardens, James White's Fort, Mabry-Hazen House, Marble Springs State Historic Site and Ramsey House Plantation.
The luncheon will be held at The Foundry, 747 World's Fair Park Drive. WBIR's Robin Whilhoit perform the duties of Mistress of Ceremonies. Tickets are $50 per person or ($400 for a table of eight).
For information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or info@knoxalliance.com.
Historic Ramsey House to host classic cars on Oct. 20
The Rockin' The Classics II Car show to benefit the Historic Ramsey House is from 9am to 2pm on Saturday, Oct. 20. Free Admission ($25 classic car entry). Rain or shine.
The Ramsey House is located at 2614 Thorngrove Pike.
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Haunted Tennessee: Rugby, 'the most haunted town in America'
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Episode 2414.4 | Ames Plantation | Tennessee Crossroads
Tennessee Crossroads' Al Voecks explores the history of this West Tennessee plantation at the Annual Heritage Festival held on a day in October. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more about Ames Plantation.
Lynnhurst Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee
Tennessee Paranormal Group Episode 1
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Sightseeing around Knoxville with Megan
Chris takes Ranger Doug (his sister Megan) around Knoxville and on a hike at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Haunted Tennessee: Eerie history of the Blount Mansion
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A Day At The Fort 2015 / Ft. Hollingsworth
Fort Hollingsworth was first shown on a map of the Defensive Plan for the Western Frontier, for Franklin County in 1793.
Colonial Era
Georgia’s boundaries in the 1700’s can best be described as the wild frontier. Between 1782 and 1797 various treaties were made with the Indians to define Georgia’s boundaries. Forts were built to protect the settlers who lived on the frontier from local indigenous Indians who were likely to be incited by misunderstandings. Horses and farm animals were often stolen and families had to be protected in fortress-type buildings surrounded by wooden fences.
The lands of the first settlers of Franklin County, whose lands were granted by the State of Georgia between 1783 and 1788, lay north of the Indian Boundary fixed by the treaty of 1785. These lands were granted under the impression that they lay south of the agreed boundary line. When this line was surveyed it was found that these lands lay north of the boundary line in the Cherokee Nation. The Indians demanded their immediate removal.
Fort Hollingsworth, otherwise known as the White House, was in the Cherokee Nation. When the boundary lines were redrawn, it was in Franklin County, then in Habersham County and finally in Banks County (1858).
William Wofford and Jacob Hollingsworth moved from North Carolina to Franklin County, Georgia in 1792. The area where they settled was known as Wofford’s Settlement.
When the line was surveyed and Col. Wofford learned that their settlement was considered to be in Indian territory, he along with other settlers in the area, petitioned Georgia Governor James Jackson to have the line re-drawn, or to take such action to protect them and their possessions from Indian raids.
Some sources claim that he mounted his horse and rode to Washington to talk with the authorities about his land holdings in Georgia. The result was the “Four Mile Purchase” of 1804. The Indians ceded a strip of land four miles wide (from the Habersham – Banks County line on Baldwin Mountain, to Line Baptist Church on old Hwy. 441) and 23 miles long (extending from Currahee Mountain to the head waters of the South Oconee River) which included the Wofford Settlement. A line of felled trees some twenty-feet wide originally marked the line, which became a “no man’s land.” The United States agreed to pay the Cherokees $5,000 and $1,000 per annum for the property rights.
By about 1796, conflicts with local Indian tribes were no longer a concern and the string of frontier forts were no longer necessary. The forts soon became log farmhouses.
The Wofford’s and Hollingsworth’s traveled together to new frontiers in the West using passports to travel through Indian territory. Genealogy records show, as the years passed, that many of their descendants packed up their belongings and moved farther west. Fort Hollingsworth was left on vacant lands.
In Habersham County Inferior Court, setting as a land court, May term 1855, William B. Wofford, son of Nathaniel Wofford, grandson of Col. William Wofford, petitioned the court for a head rights warrant for vacant lands. He received the grant from the state on Oct. 2, 1855. He sold Fort Hollingsworth to Robert McMillian on April 18, 1857. McMillan soon after sold the property to John Lane.
John Lane Obtains Fort Hollingsworth
Lane owned the property for a little over a month when the Civil War started. He then went to war, serving in Company D of the 43rd Regiment of Georgia (CSA). He also served in the Volunteer Infantry in the Army of Tennessee (CSA), otherwise known as the “Middle River Volunteers.” Lane would not return from his service in the Confederate States Army. He was killed in Tennessee while he was returning from getting water from a spring in a friendly fire incident. His men mistook him for the enemy and shot him.
The White House
Joshua White and Katharine Lane White (John’s sister) obtained the fort and made it their home. They built the addition to the two story single pen that had been the fort and made it look like any other farmhouse of the mid 1800’s. The addition was linked to the original structure by a covered walkway, known as a dogtrot.
In 1903 the fort was passed to the children of Joshua and Katharine Lane White. Lafayette (Fate) and Emma Payne White raised their family there. In 1936 Beacher White, grandson of Josh and Katy White, acquired the property. In 1980 it passed to Beacher and Mellie Segars White’s children.
Fort Hollingsworth-White House looks very much today as it did in the 1860’s. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fort Hollingsworth-White House is operated by the non-profit organization, Friends of the Fort. forthollingswort-whitehouse.com