Wellwood School (circa 1920)

Wellwood School ca. 1920

#1. and #1. back row and 2nd row not visible


Near Jones or Jones Station

WELLWOOD: founded in late 1700’s and early 1800’s on the stage coach line from Jackson to Brownsville and Bells, and at one time was larger than any of the three. Businesses at its peak included a hotel and theater, post office, livery stable, blacksmith, grist mills, schools, churches, ice house, four mercantile stores and a telephone exchange.

Goodspeed, History of Tennessee, Haywood County,  1887: Wellwood, a post village ten miles east of Brownsville, contains a store, church and mechanic shop.

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photo and information contributed by Mary Ann Mastin

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