giles

Abernathy Field Airport

626 Bethel Rd
Pulaski, TN
Longest Runway: 5,000 Ft
Runway Lights: Yes
Radio Communications: Unicom

Giles County Limit Sign

Ardmore City Limit Sign

Brick Church City Limit Sign

Bryson City Limit Sign

Campbellsville City Limit Sign

Frankewing City Limit Sign

Pigeon Roost City Limit Sign

Prospect City Limit Sign

Tarpley City Limit Sign

Waco City Limit Sign

Wheelerton City Limit Sign

Bethel F & AM Lodge #194

Building erected 1941

Bunker Hill Grocery

Downtown Frankewing

Downtown Prospect

Old Store Building

Martin Methodist College		433 W Madison St Founded 1870 Junior College-2year Private, United Methodist Enrollment: 300 Dr Harold Andrew’s Science Building Grace G Grissom Natorium Johnson Center Kermit Smith Athletic Field Martin Administration Building
Tennessee Technology Center at Pulaski		1233 East College Area Technical School Enrollment: 400+

U S Highways:	State Highways:
I-65, 31, 31A, 64	7, 11, 15, 110, 129, 166, 209, 273, 245

Established November 13, 1809
Organized February 19, 1810

Civil War Sites in Giles County

Coleman’s Scouts (1)

Main Headquarters
Located near Campbellsville

Mars Chapel

Built by Lady of the Mars Family
(Ethel, Frank Mars 2nd wife, built it in his honor)
Bought out by a church
Bought out by the Trail of Tears
To house Trail of Tears Interpretive Center
Originally located on 31 Hwy

Sam Davis Monument

Marks place where Sam Davis was captured on November 27, 1863
Located south of Minor Hill in south west part of county

Sam Davis Execution (3)

Is now site of Sam Davis Monument and Museum
Event occurred, November 27, 1863

Sam Davis Memorial Museum

Located on Sam Davis Ave in Pulaski
Museum stands on the spot where he was executed
Museum contains Civil War memorabilia including leg iron worn by Sam Davis
No admission charge

Maplewood Cemetery (4)	Temporary resting place for Sam Davis body after hanging Located in Pulaski
Sam Davis Statue (5)	Located in Pulaski’s Public Square

Forrest’s Raid (6)	At Tarpley Shop, south west of Pulaski Event occurred 1864
Battle of Campbellsville (7)	North of Pulaski at Campbellsville Event occurred 1864

Hood’s Retreat Through Giles County (8)

Battle of Anthony Hill (9)	Located near Goodspring, south west of Pulaski
Confederate’s Last Stand in Tennessee (00)	At the Alabama border in south west Giles County In Minor Hill at Sugar Creek
Schofield’s Withdrawal Historic Sign		Civil War battle site, November 24, 1864
Diana Singing Shed		Hymnal Museum Singings held second Friday & Saturday, June & September

Monument to Bishop Robert Paine

Born Person Councy, NC on November 12, 1799
Bishop Paine’s father, James Paine moved to Giles County, 1814
Settled ten miles southeast of Pulaski
Paine was converted at a camp meeting at Mount Pisgah on October 9, 1917
He was licensed to preach at Rehoboth (Cross Water) January 1818
Elected as a delegate to the General Conference of 1844
Elected a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1846
Died and was buried in Aberdeen MS, 1882

William B Giles		County named after Served in the Virginia Senate Was a staunch advocate for Tennessee's admission to the Union
Aaron Venable Brown Historic Sign			Born 1795 Was a native of North Carolina Studied law in Nashville and moved to Pulaski to practice Served four terns in State Legislature Elected to three terms in Congress Served one term as Governor, 1845-’47 Died in Nashville, 1859

Sam Davis		Was a young Confederate soldier from Smyrna, TN He was serving as a scout under a Capt Coleman, alias Dr H B Shaw Davis had gathered information about Union troop movements He spent night at Campbellsville on November 19, 1863 The next day he was about 15 miles south of Pulaski on Lamb’s Ferry Rd, below Minor Hill Two Union soldiers captured Davis He was imprisoned in a jail on the northwest corner of the Square The location was where today’s Hunter-Smith Furniture store is located The jail was later burned He was tried and sentenced to hang Davis was hanged on a hill in east Pulaski on November 27, 1863 Four sites in Giles County honor Sam Davis A monument was erected at the site of his capture by citizens of Minor Hill in 1926 A second monument placed at the site of his hanging A museum was built at this site in 1950 The third site is the location of the resting place of Davis body at Maplewood Cemetery His remains were later moved to his home in Smyrna A fourth site is a Statue of Sam Davis on Pulaski’s Square
Colonel Thomas Kennedy Gordon Historic Sign			Served as captain under General Andrew Jackson War of 1812 Was a pioneer settler of Brick Church Attained rank of colonel in the Tennessee Militia Was a member of 18^th and 21^st Tennessee General Assemblies

Edmundson-Trimbel Home

Cake Box

Cameldon Farm

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