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John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer. After founding and operating what became Washington Iron Furnace in Franklin County, Virginia for several years, he moved with his family to Middle Tennessee which was on the developing frontier.
The Cumberland Compact was signed at a Longhunter and native American trading post and camp near the French Lick [1] aka the "Big Salt Springs" on the Cumberland River on May 13, 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson and John Donelson, where the group settled and built Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee.
Clover Bottom Mansion occupies land on the Stones River first claimed in 1780 by John Donelson, who abandoned his homestead following an Indian attack. [5] The mansion was built in 1859 and was the centerpiece of the 1,500-acre Clover Bottom Plantation [6] [3] incorporating portions of the house that had been built by the Hoggatts in 1853 and was destroyed by fire.
Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The fort was not a military garrison.
John DeWolf, born on Sept. 6, 1779, to Simon and Hannah DeWolf, was a member of the famous and wealthy clan of Bristol merchants whose financial status was largely dependent upon their involvement ...
The fact trail shows Jackson and Rachel Donelson Robards ran off to Natchez together via Cumberland River to the Mississippi River, or possibly the Natchez Trace, sometime between July 1789 and their return to Tennessee in July 1790, Robards filed for divorce in December 1790, the divorce was granted on grounds of adultery in September 1793 ...
The Sycamore Shoals is located at just over 23 miles (37 km) upstream from the mouth of the Watauga River, and approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream from the river's confluence with the Doe River and 11 miles (18 km) downstream from Wilbur Dam.
A subsequent survey of the Treaty line by John Donelson of Virginia in 1771 placed the northern terminus of the line at the mouth of the Kentucky River, substantially west of the Kanawha River, cleaving what is today extreme western Virginia, a wedge of western Virginia and a large part of northeastern Kentucky to Virginia colony, which lands were then part of newly organized trans-Appalachian ...