Parkers Crossroads receives funds for historic battlefield preservation

The city of Parkers Crossroads has received $7,500 from the Tennessee Wars Commission Grant Fund to perform a geological survey to locate the graves of Confederate soldiers buried following the Battle of Parkers Crossroads on Dec. 31, 1862. About 368 acres of the former battlefield have been preserved by the American Battlefield Trust and the local Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Association. Other projects receiving funding through the Tennessee Wars Commission Grant fund include $12,000 for the James K. Polk Memorial Association in Columbia to create an exhibit on the Mexican-American War, $45,000 for an archaeological survey by the Friends of Salem Cemetery in Madison County, and $50,000 for Grainger County to guide development and interpretation of Breastworks Island as part of the historic Battle of Bean Station site.