Soon after the massacre of the garrison of Fort Loudon, ex- 

 plorers, hunters and adventurers began to cross the mountains 

 and spread themselves over what is now known as East Tennes- 

 see. Among the first of these were Daniel Boone, Walden, Scaggs 

 Cox, Calloway and others. Henry Scaggs, with a few daring 

 adventurers whose names are not known, explored the Cumber- 

 land country in 1766. Two years later James Smith and three 

 other white men and a negro slave explored the Cumberland as 

 far down as the mouth of Stone's River. 



The first permanent settlement by white men was on the banks 

 of the Holston in 1771. Captain William Bean built the first 

 cabin, and Russell Bean, his son, was the first white child to be 

 born in the State. From this date the tide of immigration began 

 to flow in a steady and ever-increasing stream. Scores of the 

 heroic men and women of that period deserve a volume each 

 but tew of them have a line, and the names of many of them 

 have been forgotten, and a large majority of them sleep in un- 

 marked graves. 



THE ROAD TO FT HENRY IN THE FEDERAL LINES AND BELOW 

 PORTERS BATTERY. TAKEN JULY 18. 1906 



