Cageville in the Civil War

Cageville took its name from trade. Merchants Isaac M. Johnson and Lycurgus Cage opened a trading post at this crossroads in 1846. Farmers in the outlying corners of Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and Madison counties, far from any courthouse, petitioned for a county of their own in 1832 and again in 1845 and were turned down both times. When the legislature at last created the county in November 1871, it named it for Davy Crockett and required that the seat be called Alamo, after the Texas mission where he died in 1836. The town itself was not incorporated until 1911.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School — 18 mi
  The one-room Black school Tina Turner attended in Nutbush, moved to Brownsville in 2012 and opened as a museum in 2014 beside Sleepy John Estes's house.
• Davy Crockett Cabin — 25 mi
  A restored cabin and museum in Rutherford for the last Tennessee home of David Crockett, who broke with Andrew Jackson over Indian removal.
• Alex Haley House Museum — 27 mi
  The 1919 bungalow in Henning where Alex Haley heard the family stories behind Roots, now a state historic site and museum with his grave in the front yard.
• Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park — 31 mi
  The largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States, about two thousand years old, with the second tallest mound in the country, a museum and paved trails.

More markers nearby

• Coxville Church and Cemetery Winfield Scott (Scotty) Moore — 6.3 mi
• Samuel Cole Williams — 12 mi
• Elbert Williams — 15 mi
• The Brownsville Raids — 16 mi