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Brownsville Historic District Established

Brownsville Historic District Established

The Brownsville, Tennessee, Historic Zoning Commission published a full-color, PDF-format report with a significant amount of local history and recommendations for preservation.  Click here to view the latest iteration, dated 2024. A Multiple Property Application for Historic Register Designation, Historic Resources of Brownsville, Tennessee (1823-1964), was filed in February, 2014.  The National Register designation was approved in January, 2015. Click here to view the full application (59 pages; PDF-format) from the U.S. National Park Service.  

James Newton Alexander & Deborah McCree Alexander

James Newton Alexander & Deborah McCree Alexander

Photos and information submitted by Ima Stephens about 2000. Click the thumbnails for larger images. James Newton Alexander and Deborah McCree Alexander were both born with the Alexander surname. Deborah was born April 22, 1846 in Haywood County, Tennessee, daughter of Jesse Rankin Alexander and Mary E. Smith; granddaughter of Benjamin Grayson Alexander and Ruth Wallace (daughter of William Wallace of Blount County, TN, and Mecklenburg County, NC); great-granddaughter of Oliver Alexander and Mary Craig (daughter of Thomas Craig and…

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Dunbar-Carver Museum in Brownsville

Dunbar-Carver Museum in Brownsville

The Dunbar-Carver Museum opened in 2007 as an archive of Haywood County’s deep, rich African American culture and heritage. The building formerly housed a series of schools: Brownsville Colored Normal School (1883 – 1887) Dunbar School (1890 – 1920) Haywood County Training School (1921 – 1950) Carver High School (1950-1970) Click here to visit the Museum’s Web site. Click here to view a local news video dated December, 2015.

Samuel Radford Ellington Family

Samuel Radford Ellington Family

Submitter of photo and information unidentified. Home of Samuel Radford Elllington, near Bells between 1905 and 1910. L to R looking at the photo: Augustus (Gus) Cooper Ellington Bernice Radford Ellington Rhoda Ellington Leslie Miller Ellington Samuel Radford Ellington Willie Florence McPherson Ellington Henry Wylie Ellington J. R. Ellington (on chair) Mack’s son Mary Lucy Ivy Ellington Acuff Paul Boston (Mack) Ellington holding Mary Olive Ellington (his daughter). The picture in front of Samuel is Alice Ellington Cain; she d….

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Business Ledger of a Denmark Area Enslaver, 1820-1860

Business Ledger of a Denmark Area Enslaver, 1820-1860

The Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) contains a digitized copy of a document identified as Business Ledger of a West Tennessee Slave Owner.  The book is described in the catalogue: Business ledger approximately 200 pages, dating from 1820 belonging to a landowner and slaveholder of Denmark, Tennessee. Listed are the names, ages, and prices of slaves involved in an estate appraisal. Later generations used the old ledger for scrapbook pictures and poems, one poem entitled, “The Confederate Flag.” It includes a…

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Taylor Family

Taylor Family

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  Photo gallery image of Martha Ellen Johnson Taylor, b. 7-25-1885 in Nutbush community and d. 1937. She was the daughter of Alexander Johnson and Martha Ellen Bridgewater of Nutbush. Married in 1908 to Edwin S. Taylor of the Tabernacle community. They are buried in the Tabernacle Cemetery.  Contributed by Tina Gray. Photo gallery image of Martha Ellen Taylor Hughes, b. 2-12-1915 and d. 6-3-1983. Daughter of Edwin S. Taylor and Martha Ellen Johnson. She grew up in the Tabernacle…

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Allen School, 1890’s

Allen School, 1890’s

Source:  Haywood County Line blog (click here to view original post). Snipped from the blog post: This photo came from the genealogy room at the Elma Ross Public Library in Brownsville, Tennessee. It was taken in the 1890s at the school in the Allen Community of Haywood County. Notes on the back of the photo indicate the school was located close to where Russell Kirby’s house is today. The photo was given to the library by Lawrence Cobb who ran…

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