Tipton-Haynes Historic Site

The 1788 fight here began with property. North Carolina sent Sheriff Jonathan Pugh to seize John Sevier's holdings over disputed taxes, and the enslaved people he took were held at Colonel Tipton's house. Sevier arrived on February 27 with more than a hundred men. Two days later, in a snowstorm, Colonel George Maxwell reinforced Tipton, and about ten minutes of skirmishing sent Sevier back to Jonesborough, with three men killed. Sevier then sought Spanish help for his failing state, and by 1790 the region was the Southwest Territory.

What the plaque says

Tipton-Haynes Historic Site Site of the home occupied by John Tipton, a Revolutionary War officer, legislator, and opponent of the State of Franklin. A skirmish between supporters and opponents of Franklin was fought here February 27-29, 1788. The house was later owned by John Tipton, Jr., a soldier and legislator, and Landon Carter Haynes, a lawyer, legislator, and Confederate senator.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park — 5.5 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.
• Rocky Mount Museum — 7.6 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.
• Jonesborough Historic District — 7.7 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 — 9.5 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.

More markers nearby

• Andre Michaux — steps away
• Tipton-Haynes Cemetery — 0.3 mi
• East Tennessee & Western North Carolina (ET & WNC) Depot — 1.8 mi
• Johnson City Sessions — 1.8 mi