{"id":3736,"date":"2022-01-18T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2022-01-18T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:34:24","slug":"fentress-county-civil-districts-laid-out-in-1836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/fentress-county-civil-districts-laid-out-in-1836\/","title":{"rendered":"Fentress County Civil Districts Laid Out in 1836"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Uploaded to Facebook by Ronald Dishman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prior to a revision of Tennessee&#8217;s Constitution in 1834, counties were divided into militia companies for administration and local business.&nbsp; Effective in 1836, counties were divided into civil districts for voting and administration.<\/p>\n<p>A digital copy of the Fentress County survey is available in the Tennessee Virtual Archive.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll23\/id\/10094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the document.<\/p>\n<p>The map below from the Tennessee State Library and Archives shows Fentress County&#8217;s districts in 1836.&nbsp; This map is included with the original document (link above).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded to Facebook by Ronald Dishman Prior to a revision of Tennessee&#8217;s Constitution in 1834, counties were divided into militia companies for administration and local business.&nbsp; Effective in 1836, counties were divided into civil districts for voting and administration. A <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/fentress-county-civil-districts-laid-out-in-1836\/\"><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-3736","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\/3736","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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}