HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF MIDDLEFORK
From the photograph collection of W. Clay Crook
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This is Crook Bros. General Merchandise circa 1910. This building was erected before the Civil War by a different family. |
Middlefork circa 1916. The store to the immediate left of the buggy is Crook Bros. General Merchandise. The buggy is sitting on what is now Hwy 22 A. The road between the Crook Store and the next building down is the Middlefork-Mifflin Road. The next store down is Arnold's Store. It was a two story building . . . a store and office for Dr. Arnold. |
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Ladies Group at Middlefork, Taken About 1920. |
Partial View of Dr. Arnold's Store. |
Bailed Cotton.
Crook's Delinting and Seed Treatment Company (1970)
Crook's Half & Half Cotton (1916)
Special thanks go to W. Clay Crook for providing these photographs. W. Clay Crook lives in the Middlefork Community of Henderson County and is contact for Crook family genealogy in West Tennessee.
More Middlefork:
History: Middlefork, A Forgotten Community, W. Clay Crook
Photographs: Historic Photographs of Middlefork, Middlefork, October 1999 (photo essay), Middlefork School Basketball Teams circa 1930-1931
Cemeteries: Chester County - Hamlett (with photographs), Hurt (with photograph), Rhodes (with photograph), Unity; Henderson County - Big Springs (with photograph), Garrett (with photographs), Hendrick (with photograph), Middlefork, Old Big Springs, Phelps
Maps: Map of Middlefork and Jacks Creek, Map of William L. Smith Farm and John Crook Land Grants
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