Civil War In Charlotte

The courthouse the Union major took for his headquarters was already a survivor. Charlotte, named for Charlotte Reeves Robertson, wife of the Nashville founder James Robertson, was nearly wiped away by a tornado on May 30, 1830. The storm flattened most of the homes and businesses along with the jail and the first courthouse, whose roof was found miles away, and most of the county's early records were lost for good. A new brick courthouse went up on the square, finished in 1832 or 1833 by differing accounts. It still stands, the oldest courthouse in Tennessee.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge — 33 mi
  An 8,862-acre refuge on the Cumberland River floodplain near Dover, made in 1962 to replace habitat Lake Barkley flooded, wintering tens of thousands of waterfowl.

More markers nearby

• Fighting for Freedom (Promise Land Civil War Heroes) — 2.3 mi
• Promise Land — 2.3 mi
• Theodore and Lizzie Vanleer Edmondson — 2.3 mi
• Cumberland Furnace Iron Plantation — 6.2 mi