This one was tough to find. It is located in a spot in between two housing developments and to access the cemetery, I had to park on the street. I was probably trespassing as I walked the line between two homes to get to the cemetery fence.
Inside the cemetery I visited the settlers memorial stone. Tennessee's Cavett Blockhouse predated Texas' Alamo. On September 25, 1793, 1,000 Creek and Cherokee warriors were prepared to annihilate Knoxville. Only the 14 residents of the Blockhouse - men, women, and kids - were in their path. Somehow, the settlers put up such a battle that the Native Americans were demoralized and never attempted to attack the settlement. The only memorial for the settlers is the stone on their mass grave because all of the Blockhouse defenders were slain there yet, unlike the Alamo, the Blockhouse wasn't preserved.
The stone reads, "Upon this spot stood the house of Alexander Cavett who was murdered together with two men and the Cavett family of twelve, September 25th, 1793, after heroic resistance against a combined Creek and Cherokee force numbering one thousand warriors, thereby insuring failure of the intended attack upon the town of Knoxville." It was erected in 1921 by the Tennessee Society Sons of the Revolution.
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