The following accounts provide historical information and stories about Dekalb County. Please let us know if you have additional history to share.
- Last Bear Fight (Smithville Review newspaper, 1948)
- Goodspeed’s History of Dekalb County (1887)
- Historian Unravels Liberty Mule Mystery (Smithville Review newspaper, 2006)
- History of Dekalb County (1915) – book by William T. Hale
- Presswood Hanging (1872)
- History of Dekalb County Tennessee – by Will T. Hale (1915)
- History of Middle Tennessee Baptists (1902) – book by John Harvey Grime (churches start on page 60)
- Foutch/Malone Feud (Smithville Review newspaper December 1999)