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by AB-Wikibot on April 19th, 2007
In 1785, Revolutionary War veteran John Craig founded a wooden palisade known as Fort Craig at what is now Maryville in order to defend settlers against attacks from Native American tribes. Craig donated 50 acres (200,000 m sq) next to his fort for the founding of a new town. Maryville was incorporated as a city on July 11 1795 and named in honor of Mary Grainger Blount, wife of territorial governor William Blount, for whom Blount County is named.
The family of Sam Houston moved to Maryville in 1808, when Houston was 15. He taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in Maryville before he began his military and political career.
During the American Civil War, Maryville was occupied by Union troops in May 1864. In August 1864, a Confederate cavalry raid, under the command of General Joseph Wheeler, attacked the courthouse where the Union troops had barricaded themselves. The Rebels set fire to several buildings in the attempt to dislodge the Northern soldiers, including a store where the city's records were being kept. Polly Tool, an African-American slaveryslave rescued most of the records and is now honored by a statue in the Blount County courthouse.
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander was born in Maryville in 1940 and announced his eventually unsuccessful bids for the Republican Party (United States)Republican nomination for President in 1996 and 2000 from Maryville.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryville%2C_Tennessee
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