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Friesian - Horse for Sale in Rogersville, TN 37857
Floris
Floris is a charismatic stallion with lots of elegance and great movements!..
Rogersville, Tennessee
Black
Friesian
Stallion
6
Rogersville, TN
TN
$3,000
1

About Newport, TN

The Great Indian Warpath passed through what is now Newport en route to the ancient Cherokee hunting grounds of northeastern Tennessee. The Warpath crossed the Pigeon River at a point approximately 0.2 miles (0.3 km) east of the McSween Memorial Bridge (US-321), in an area where the river is normally low enough to walk across. The first European traders to the area, arriving in the mid-18th century, called this point along the Pigeon River the "War Ford". During the American Revolution, the Cherokee aligned themselves with the British, and launched sporadic attacks against early Euro-American settlers in the Holston valley. In the waning months of the conflict in 1782, a detachment led by Gen.