{"id":3410,"date":"2021-09-19T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2021-09-19T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:15:09","slug":"1836-overton-county-civil-districts-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/1836-overton-county-civil-districts-map\/","title":{"rendered":"1836 Overton County Civil Districts Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1834, the Tennessee Legislature mandated that each county set out districts for administration, voting, and taxation.&nbsp; Those districts were to be effective in 1836.&nbsp; Every county created a map, but many maps were lost.&nbsp; Fortunately, the map for Overton County survived.<\/p>\n<p>Existing original maps are fragile and are housed in the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives.<\/p>\n<p>This image was submitted by Ronald Dishman to the Pickett County Genealogical &amp; Historical Society Facebook Group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-content\/gallery\/overton-maps\/1836_Overton_Map_Ron_Dishman_to_Pickett_Group.jpg\" alt=\"1836 Overton County Districts Map\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1834, the Tennessee Legislature mandated that each county set out districts for administration, voting, and taxation.&nbsp; Those districts were to be effective in 1836.&nbsp; Every county created a map, but many maps were lost.&nbsp; Fortunately, the map for Overton <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/1836-overton-county-civil-districts-map\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history-information","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}