David Hall Cabin

The two-story log cabin is said to date from about 1799, though accounts differ on who built it: one names George Walker, building for Isaac Brazelton, while Hall is remembered as the Revolutionary veteran who ran a tavern and inn beside it on Emory Road. He also grew peaches and apples and made and sold brandy. Upstairs, a chest turned up a note and Confederate money from an officer whose soldiers had lodged there, with a list of everything they took. Harry and Libby Bumgardner own it, with a historic association formed to restore it.

What the plaque says

David Hall Cabin Circa 1800 David Hall, a revolutionary War veteran, purchased a plantation near here in 1803. Seven years later he opened a tavern and inn on the property. Granville Arnold purchased the site in 1854, operating the inn for the remainder of the 19th century. Located on Emory Road between Nashville and Knoxville, it served many travelers, including Civil War soldiers and stagecoach passengers. Among Anderson County's oldest surviving structures, the two-story building stands a half-mile south and features hewn logs with v-notches.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 4.9 mi
  The 1935 school in Clinton that sent twelve Black students down Foley Hill to desegregate Clinton High School in August 1956, now a museum with bronze statues of the Clinton 12.
• American Museum of Science and Energy — 6.3 mi
  The Oak Ridge museum that opened in 1949, when the Manhattan Project city's gates opened, in a town whose Black workers were housed in the Gamble Valley hutments.
• Museum of Appalachia — 11 mi
  John Rice Irwin's 65-acre collection of moved log cabins and mountain objects north of Knoxville, opened in 1969, with a cabin believed to be Mark Twain's father's.
• Blount Mansion — 14 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.

More markers nearby

• The Scarboro Community — 2.0 mi
• First Integrated Public Schools in the Southeast — 3.3 mi
• The Elza Gate — 3.8 mi
• Clinton High School — 4.8 mi