Yesterday's Henderson County

Henderson County, Tennessee History Page

The Black Experience

• Arthur Lee Robinson*
• Baptizing on Sunday, Lexington Reporter
• Black Cemeteries, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Black Persons Mentioned in Henderson County Court Minute Book 1860-1866, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Blacks in Sardis, Beulah Hanna and Carra Holland
• Colored News (1959), Marie B. Young
• Colored News (1960), Marie B. Young
• Colored News (1961), Marie B. Young
• Colored (1964), Marie B. Young
• Dorothy J. Kizer Thomas, Doris Jarrett (with photograph)
• Dr. Louis S. Douglass of Henderson County, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Dr. Robert Lowery and His Slaves, David Donahue
• Free Black Persons in Henderson County in 1860, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Funeral Programs, Black Henderson Countians
• Henderson County and the Underground Railroad, G. Tillman Stewart
• Jo Ann Beal, Jimmy Hart
• Luray School 1934 (photograph)
• Marriages of Black Couples in Henderson County, 1893-1903, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Montgomery High School Home Page
• Murder of John H. Trice by his Negro Servant in 1860, Lonathan K. T. Smith
• Older Black Folk in the 1900 U.S.Census of Henderson County, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• News of the Colored (1961), Mary J. Wadley
• News of the Colored (1962), Mary J. Wadley
• News of the Colored (1962), Marie B. Young
• People of Color: The Black Community Viewed Through the Pages of the Lexington Progress (1904-1947), compiled by Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church Black History Celebration "Memories" February 25, 1996, compiled by Marilyn Henry
• Students Write About Black History Month (1998), Jimmy Hart
• Unidentified Colored School (photograph)
• Various Records Regarding Black Folk in County Court and Chancery Court, Henderson County, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant - Milan Ordnance Depot

This page is to help make Henderson County history more accessible by sharing over the Internet some of the materials which are available.  Do you have a history of your church, school, community, or business?  How about your grandfather's farm journal or a story told by your grandmother about a memorable event?

Please contact me to share it with others.