{"id":2,"date":"2015-01-24T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:25:50","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Goodspeed Publishing Company of Nashville and Chicago issued A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of \u2026 [County names go here] . . during 1886 and 1887. Unfortunately, the project was not completed and therefore not all Tennessee counties are represented in this series. A total of <em><strong>eighty-two<\/strong><\/em> counties were recorded, however, the histories of Davidson County and twelve rural counties of the Cumberland Plateau were never published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Goodspeed published their work in three parts. First was the general History of Tennessee, Illustrated; second, the histories of the individual counties; and lastly, some biographies of folk from the individual counties. (<a title=\"More Information\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/more-information\/\">More about Goodspeed<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Our purpose is to both publish here the county histories and biographies. When we do not have a transcription, we will attempt to link to other websites.\u00a0For information about counties without links to Goodspeed, contact the county host. Each county can be accessed from \u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"List of Counties\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/counties.php\">TNGenWeb County Selection Page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goodspeed Publishing Company of Nashville and Chicago issued A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of \u2026 [County names go here] . . during 1886 and 1887. Unfortunately, the project was not completed and therefore not all Tennessee counties are represented in &#8230; <a title=\"Overview\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Overview\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}