The Last Stagecoach Robbery

Last Stagecoach Robbery Marker

The last recorded stagecoach holdup in Tennessee, which took place in Putnam County in 1882, near midnight on October 11, "Big" Hunt and "the two Edward boys" stopped the Cookeville-Nashville stage driven by John Rayburn, at Pekin, a post office sixteen miles west of Cookeville.

Last Stagecoach Robbery Road