Haston Station

Haston Station is a Tennessee historical marker in Sparta, Van Buren County.

894 Cane Creek/Cumminsville Road, Sparta, TN

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In 1802, Daniel Haston, a Middle Tennessee pioneer, and Revolutionary War Veteran, came to this valley by oxcart from Western North Carolina to settle on Cherokee land. He cleared the valley's massive cane breaks and built a fortified farm to protect his family from Cherokee raids and to defend the station's water source at the base of the hill. The spring flows from an underground stream that originates in one of the largest cave rooms in the Southeastern United States located in Dry Fork Gulf a part of Fall Creek Falls State Park.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1794 · Map of the Tennessee Government. (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)
1809 · United States of America, southern part. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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