HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY
Comprising
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ACTS CONNECTED WITH THE EARLY
SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY; THE ORIGIN AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY; SLAVERY, THE CIVIL
WAR, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION DAYS; THE
WORLD WAR AND PRESENT CONDITIONS.
By AUBURN POWERS
A Resident of Henderson County; a Student of the University
of Tennessee; a Teacher; and a Traveler.
1930
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- Photograph, Auburn Powers
- Preface
- Photograph, Henderson County Court House
- Introduction
- Chapter I, EARLY SETTLEMENT
- Chapter II, THE PIONEERS
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- Photographs, An Old-fashioned Rail Fence; Rock Hill Cemetery; A Modern Country Home, Dewey Howell's
- Chapter III, THE MAKING OF THE COUNTY
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- Photographs, Dorsey Stewart, Sheriff; Harrison Thomas, who witnessed his brother's death in Andersonville Prison; A muzzle-loading rifle used in the Battle of New Orleans, now owned by John Wash Fesmire
- Chapter IV, EARLY DEVELOPMENT
- Chapter V, SLAVERY
- Chapter VI, THE CIVIL WAR
- Chapter VII, RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
- Chapter VIII, MISCELLANEOUS FACTS
- Chapter IX, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES
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- Photographs, Outstanding Educators: Prof. J. O. Brown; Prof. Arthur Bobbitt; Supt. R. E. Powers; Prof. Luther Bobbitt [Note: Damaged Luther Bobbitt photo replaced with scan from a xerox copy.]
- Photographs, Lexington High School, Scotts Hill High School
- Chapter X, PROGRESS AND MODERNISM
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- Photographs, World War Victims: Capt. V. C. Halter; Riley Jefferson Climer, Sidney Ayres, Jesse Powers, Jesse Leonard Deere, Clay Woods
- Chapter XI, THE WORLD WAR
- Chapter XII, PRESENT CONDITIONS
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- Photographs, Chesterfield Schoolhouse; Mt. Ararat Church; Tennessee Middlin Railroad; Joseph Reed's Razor Now Owned by Reader Buck
- Chapter XIII, MEN OF NOTE
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- Photograph, Judge W. H. Denison
- Photographs, Dr. Martin P. Boyd Beloved physician of the almost forgotten town of Farmville for half a century; W. V. Barry
- Photographs, Some Present County Officials: C. L. Scates; T. R. Sisson; Paul Parker; A. R. Wallace
- Photograph, P. O. Roberts
- Chapter XIV, LEXINGTON [and other
communities]