Nicholas Gibbs
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John Nicholas Gibbs II (1733–1817) was a German settler in Eastern Tennessee. He was born Johann Nickel Gibbs on September 29, 1733, in the Village of Wallruth in the Duchy of Baden, Holy Roman Empire.[1]
There is a Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society[2] that bought[3] the Gibbs farmstead and applied to make the place a national landmark.[4][when?] It was a rural domestic site was inhabited by four generations of the Nicholas Gibbs family between ca. 1792 and 1913.[5] An archaeological survey was conducted by the University of Tennessee and has helped academics understand the life of early settlers in the region.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nicholas Gibbs Burial Information"
- ^ "Website of Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society"
- ^ "The Gibbs House: Excavation of a Late 18th century German-American Farmstead in Knox County, Tennessee"
- ^ "Application For National Landmark Status by Nicholas Gibbs Society"
- ^ " The Nicholas Gibbs Farmstead, Knox County, East Tennessee"
- ^ Mark D. Groover "An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Appalachia, 1790-1820"
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