Elijah Wood

The regiment Elijah Wood joined was raised in East Tennessee. The 1st United States Colored Heavy Artillery was organized at Knoxville on February 20, 1864, from men drawn mostly from Tennessee and North Carolina, and it served on garrison duty at Knoxville until January 1865. It then moved to Greeneville and the District of East Tennessee and stayed for nearly a year after the fighting ended, mustering out on March 31, 1866. Some of its veterans built public lives at home: Sgt. Moses Smith became a Knoxville policeman and city alderman.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• American Museum of Science and Energy — 1.6 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.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 7.6 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.
• Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary — 13 mi
  The coal-mining prison opened in 1896 after the Coal Creek War ended convict leasing, where James Earl Ray escaped in 1977, now a tourist site and distillery.
• Frozen Head State Park — 14 mi
  A 24,000-acre Cumberland Mountains park around a 3,324-foot peak, made from Brushy Mountain prison lands and the CCC, and home to the Barkley Marathons.

More markers nearby

• The Elza Gate — 2.4 mi
• Oak Ridge — 3.2 mi
• The Rose Terrace House — 5.2 mi
• First Integrated Public Schools in the Southeast — 5.4 mi