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Area 3
3B55 This community and church received its name from the Rev. James Parker, the first pastor. In 1906, Parker's Chapel Church hosted the East Fork Missionary Baptist Association. Parker's Chapel School was built in 1923 with assistance from the Rosenwald Fund. The school closed in 1960. Until 1965, when the Portland schools were desegregated, African-American children were bused to Gallatin. In the mid 1940s, the Flower and Garden and Community Improvement clubs of Parker's Chapel were organized. This marker is located at the corner of TN 52 and Airport Road, approximately 2.1 miles east of TN 109.
3B66 One and one-half miles northeast of here, prior to the War, Heath had established his blacksmith shop at Heath Springs beside Sulphur Fork Creek. Here he established his reputation as a rifle maker. Heath's wife Martha Johnson (1848-1926), lost her father, 1st Lt. Richard E. Johnson (1821-1862) of the 20th Tennessee Infantry, Co. F, on January 19, 1862, at the Battle of Fishing Creek, Kentucky, where he, like his commander, Gen. Felix Zollicoffer, fell to Union fire. This marker is located on TN 52 approximately 6.6 miles east of TN 109. The marker is on the north side of the road.
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