Christopher Taylor House

Taylor built the cabin when the road was the town's lifeline, and it served travelers as a stage-road stop in the late 1700s. Its builder had soldiered in the French and Indian War, then served in the Revolution and fought alongside John Sevier at King's Mountain. The log house now stands on West Main Street beside the Chester Inn, moved there from its first site, so a walk along the street runs from a frontier soldier's cabin to the best hotel on the Tennessee frontier within a few steps.

What the plaque says

Christopher Taylor House About one mile southwest of this location, this log house was built in 1777 by this officer who was a veteran of the French and Indian War and a major in the American Revolutionary War. He is buried in the family cemetery nearby. Andrew Jackson live here in 1788-89 while practicing law in Jonesborough. The house was moved intact to this site in 1974 to preserve it from demolition.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jonesborough Historic District — 0.3 mi
  Tennessee's oldest town, chartered in 1779, where Elihu Embree printed The Emancipator in 1820 and a hay wagon by the courthouse started the National Storytelling Festival in 1973.
• Unicoi County Heritage Museum and the Erwin Rail Yard — 10 mi
  A museum in the old fish hatchery superintendent's house in Erwin, a Clinchfield railroad town where the elephant Mary was hanged in 1916 and Black residents were driven out in 1918.
• Rocky Mount Museum — 11 mi
  William Cobb's log house at Piney Flats, where Governor William Blount ran the Southwest Territory from 1790 to 1792, now a living-history museum set in 1791 with a reconstructed cabin for the enslaved.
• Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park — 13 mi
  A shoal on the Watauga River where the Transylvania Company bought about 20 million acres from the Cherokee in March 1775, Dragging Canoe refused, and the Overmountain Men mustered in 1780.

More markers nearby

• Chester Inn — steps away
• First Abolition Publications — steps away
• Alfred Martin Ray, Buffalo Soldier — steps away
• DeVault Tavern — 0.3 mi