"Little Lord Fauntleroy"

Frances Hodgson Burnett arrived as a teenager. After her father's death in England the family had fallen on hard times, and in 1865 they joined her uncle William Boond, whose Knoxville dry-goods business had been hurt by the war's end and who could do little for them. They spent their first winter in a log cabin at New Market, then moved to a Knoxville house she called Noah's Ark. She began writing stories to support the family, long before the 1886 book that made her famous.

What the plaque says

"Little Lord Fauntleroy" The author of this book, probably the most famous of her several works, spent her first winter in the United States in a small house which stood about 250 yards south. Besides this juvenile work, she was the author of numerous popular adult books and dramas. Born in England in 1849, she died on Long Island in 1924.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 21 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.
• Blount Mansion — 23 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

• Carson-Newman College — 3.4 mi
• Nelson Merry School — 3.9 mi
• New Market Train Wreck — 4.2 mi
• Battle of Mossy Creek — 4.4 mi