Swaggerty Blockhouse
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swaggerty-blockhouse-252-11306142
title:
Swaggerty Blockhouse
text:
The Swaggerty Blockhouse is a historic structure near Parrottsville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The structure was originally believed to have been a frontier blockhouse built by early settler James Swaggerty in 1787. Recent archaeological evidence suggests, however, that the structure was actually a cantilever barn built by a farmer named Jacob Stephens around 1860. In the late 18th-century, blockhouses dotted East Tennessee and the Trans-Appalachian frontier, as attacks from hostile Cherok
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
United States historic place
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaggerty_Blockhouse
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date modified:
2023-11-16T18:47:36Z
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image:
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13
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