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Vango is a Scottish manufacturer of camping equipment. It was founded in 1963 with the acquisition of tent manufacturer James McIlwraith, of Govan , in the West of Scotland, by Alistair Moodie and its name was changed to Vango, an anagram of the placename.
Blue Springs Encampments and Fortifications is the site of a Civil War military encampment in Bradley County, Tennessee. Union Army forces commanded by General William Tecumseh Sherman camped at this location between October 1863 and April 1865. [2] Entrenchments built on the crests of ridges overlooking the camps are still visible on the site ...
Sango is an unincorporated community in the southeastern corner of Montgomery County, Tennessee, about 5 miles east of Clarksville. It is located near Interstate 24, 30 minutes northwest of Nashville. Once primarily a rural community consisting largely of prime farmland, many new housing developments have gone up in the past few years.
According to the donor, Washington gave the camp bed to his recording secretary, Richard Varick, at the close of the war. It was passed down through Varick's descendants until it was donated to the Historical Society in 1871. [4] Napoleon Bonaparte and his high-ranking officers used camp beds with a frame of gilt copper. The bed's six legs had ...
Largest gray bat hibernaculum in Tennessee. [12] Lookout Mountain Caverns: Hamilton County: 12 miles (19 km) 1823 No longer accessible since 2005. [13] Connected to Ruby Falls. Lost Cove Cave: Franklin County: 2 miles (3.2 km) Also known as the Buggytop Cave. Nickajack Cave: Marion County: 1 mile (1.6 km) 1800
Tennessee Camp, also known as 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Camp and Camp Bate, is a historic archaeological site and American Civil War encampment located at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Stafford County, Virginia. It was the location of a winter Confederate States Army regimental-sized camp from September 1861 through February 1862. It consists of at ...
Saltillo was founded by Thomas Shannon in October 1822. He had left Davidson County, Tennessee and arrived in the area on a keelboat with enough provisions to last one year, two men, Colonel John Holland and Parkerson Mitchell, to assist him, and four black men. The men arrived via Tennessee River and built camp about half a mile from the river ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km 2), all land. [6] There is a small man-made lake built to draw in tourism in the early 1900s. Underneath the town is "Ridgetop Tunnel", a railroad tunnel bored in the early 1900s.