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I’m not sure what military pay is like these days, but chances are the servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan will not be paid in real estate or waterfalls or placid pools.
After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. government was low on cash; in fact, US currency was in its infancy. (The US Coinage Act created the first $1 coin in 1792.) Less than a year later, veteran Tom Burgess was deeded land in middle Tennessee near Cookeville for services rendered. It mattered little that the property was still owned by Native Americans. It was also before Tennessee became a state (1796).
Today, Burgess Falls on Falling Water River in White County still honors the name of the American patriot.
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