McNair’s Stand
McNair’s Stand is a Tennessee historical marker in Polk County.
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The Tennessee Historical Commission's records list this marker as not standing. Note from the marker program.
Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.
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Historical maps covering this location
- 1794 · Map of the Tennessee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1794 · Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
For example, one family's tree showed the Articles of Confederation marker in Pennsylvania standing under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s.
What that marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years there.
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Marker text and location from the Tennessee Historical Commission, as the Commission publishes them on its marker map.
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