The Obion County County Farm (poor house, county home) was once located in Civil District 6, near the Polk Station Community on what is now Moss Road. There was probably a graveyard in this vicinity but it has not yet … Continue reading →
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN OBION COUNTY. Written by Robert Thomas Curlin – published in the Union City Commercial on July 4th, 1924 A few years before my father, Thomas R. Curlin, died I asked him to tell me about … Continue reading →
In 1941, E.H. Marshall compiled a book providing historical information about Obion County. The beginning of the book is comprised of the Goodspeed history so may be familiar to many readers. The rest however, is extracted from the author’s work … Continue reading →
Obion County in West Tennessee one of the state’s three “grand divisions” was created in 1823 from the Chickasaw Indian Cession named for the Obion River, chief watercourse of the area, the origin of the name of which is obscure: … Continue reading →