McAlister’s Crossroads 1807-1826

McAlister’s Crossroads 1807-1826 is a Tennessee historical marker in Montgomery County.

Montgomery Co., Intersection of Gray’s Chapel Rd. and Old Hwy. 48 from Clarksville to Charlotte

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McAlister's Crossroads is located on what was a 12000-acre Revolutionary War land grant purchased by John McAlister in 1807 from the estate of General Francis Nash, for whom Nashville was named. The Crossroads was the site of a U.S. Post Office and near Cabin Row Plantation, the home of McAlister. In 1828, thirty-seven years before the Emancipation Proclamation, he gave his sixty-two slaves their freedom and 1000 acres.

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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)
1812 · Kentucky. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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McAlister’s Crossroads 1807-1826

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