Black Ripley
The histories of African-Americans in Ripley, TN and the surrounding areas.
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Lauderdale County in the Tennessee Encyclopedia
Lauderdale county in the Tennessee Encyclopedia
Continue reading →Goodspeed’s Lauderdale County History, Part 2
Lauderdale County History (Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887), continued: Ripley the county seat, was formed in June, 1836, upon fifty acres of land donated to the county by John Brown. The town is centrally located on the Newport News & Mississippi … Continue reading →
Goodspeed’s Lauderdale County History, Part 1
Lauderdale County History (Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887) The eastern portion of Lauderdale is on the plateau of West Tennessee and the western in the Mississippi Bottoms. The highlands of the plateau run in a general northeast and southwest direction through … Continue reading →
Brief History of Lauderdale County
Lauderdale County was formed in 1835 from Haywood, Dyer and Tipton counties. The county seat is Ripley. The people who lived in the upper part of Tipton County and the lower part of Dyer were cut off from the two … Continue reading →