Strolling Jim Grave
Wartrace, Bedford County, Tennessee

(from historical marker) "Strolling Jim, the first World's Champion Tennessee Walking Horse, is buried in a pasture directly behind the Walking Horse Hotel. Foaled in 1936, this former work horse was ridden to the championship by Floyd Carothers at the first Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville in 1939. Jim died in 1957(*) in the pasture where he spent his last years."

(*grave marker says 1954, actual date is 1957)

Location: behind the Walking Horse Hotel
Visited: 2005
Photos above show the historical marker about Strolling Jim and the Walking Horse Hotel.
Below is the pasture where Jim lived and is buried, and his grave marker.


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last update Oct 29, 2009
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