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Anglea Community (Angel Town)
- Anglea Community Leaves Little Written History, Much Legend by Theda Pond Womack
Bethpage
- Recollections of Life in Bethpage by Christine Templeton Cage
Bledsoe's Lick
Brackentown
- Brackintown Was Active Community by E. A. Green
- Family Tradition and the Settling of Brackintown, TN by Henry B. Brackin, Jr.
Bransford
- Writer Remembers Bransford And Its People by Mrs. Lee Overton
Buck Lodge
- Excerpt from Rural Hamlets of Upper Sumner County: Fountain Head, Bucklodge, and South Tunnel, a school paper by Denise Harper Wilson, 1983
Cairo
- Cairo Has Been Through Three Phases by The News-Examiner
Castalian Springs (Formerly called Bledsoe's Lick)
- Indian Skirmishes Mark Castalian by The News-Examiner
Cottontown
- Cottontown in the 1920's -- Photo
- Part One - Settlers Take Up Grants, Build Cottontown by David Collier
- Part Two - Cottontownians Start Businesses, Churches by David Collier
- Part Three - Remembering Past, Looking Toward Future by David Collier
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Fountain Head
- Excerpt from Old Sumner, A History of Sumner County, Tennessee, From 1805 to 1861 by Walter Durham
- Excerpt from Rural Hamlets of Upper Sumner County: Fountain Head, Bucklodge, and South Tunnel, a school paper by Denise Harper Wilson, 1983
- Annual Return To Grand Lodge Of Tennessee From Fountain Head Lodge No. 326 For the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1868
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Gallatin
- Alice Williamson Diary
- Gallatin, the County Seat: An Excerpt from Old Sumner, A History of Sumner County, Tennessee, From 1805 to 1861 by Walter Durham
- Gallatin was Founded on Land Owned by James Trousdale by The News-Examiner
- History of the First Courthouse in Gallatin
- Main Street in 1912 (Photo)
- Mayors of Gallatin, 1822-1965
- Town of Gallatin in the Year 1861 by The News-Examiner
Goodlettsville
Hartsville
Hendersonville
- City by the Lake, A History of Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1780 - 1969: An Excerpt from the Foreward by Timothy L. Takacs.
- City by the Lake, A History of Hendersonville, Tennessee, Volume II -- A Review of the Forthcoming Book Written by Jamie Clary, Review by Timothy L. Takacs.
Little Trammel
- The Blacks of Little Trammel - Part One
- The Blacks of Little Trammel - Part Two
- The Blacks of Little Trammel - Part Three
Martin
- School Building, Now Church, Keeps Martin Memory Alive by The News-Examiner
Millersville
- TiWhoppetti "The Valley of Cool
Water": An Excerpt from
Some Early History of the Millersville Area, p. 11,
by Vergie M. Honeycutt - Index to Some Early History of the Millersville Area by Vergie M. Honeycutt
Mitchellville
New Deal
Northeast Sumner Co. TN
Oak Grove
- Memories of Oak Grove, Part One by Goldman Dewitt Freeland
- Memories of Oak Grove, Part Two by Goldman Dewitt Freeland
- Memories of Oak Grove, Part Three by Goldman Dewitt Freeland
- Memories of Oak Grove, Part Four by Goldman Dewitt Freeland
- Memories of Oak Grove, Part Five by Goldman Dewitt Freeland
- Memories of Oak Grove, Part Six by Goldman Dewitt Freeland
Pleasant Grove
- History of Pleasant Grove United
Methodist Church
(Includes aerial photograph of Pleasant Grove Church and Cemetery) - People and Events in the History of Pleasant Grove and Garretts Creek Communities- Part One
- People and Events in the History of Pleasant Grove and Garretts Creek Communities- Part Two
- People and Events in the History of Pleasant Grove and Garretts Creek Communities- Part Three
- People and Events in the History of Pleasant Grove and Garretts Creek Communities- Part Four
Portland (Formerly called Richland)
- Settlement of Portland: Articles 1 - 4 by William McGlothlin
- Settlement of Portland: Articles 5 - 10 by William McGlothlin
- Settlement of Portland: Articles 11 - 14 by William McGlothlin
Salem
Saundersville
Scattersville (An African American Community)
- History of Scattersville Community by Wava (Bratton) Young
Shackle Island
South Tunnel
- South Tunnel Owed Its Life to Railroad by The News-Examiner
Upper Sumner County, TN
- Diary of Mary Johnson Link Hester by Mary Johnson Link Hester
- Some Early Settlers of Upper Sumner County, Tennessee by Lee Alton Absher
Westmoreland
- A Brief History of Westmoreland by John F. Creasy
- Interview with William Guthrie (Culley) Caldwell: Part I by Durham Caldwell
- Interview with William Guthrie (Culley) Caldwell: Part II by Durham Caldwell
- Interview with William Guthrie (Culley) Caldwell: Part III by Durham Caldwell
- Interview with William Guthrie (Culley) Caldwell: Part IV by Durham Caldwell
- Westmoreland's First Football Team by John F. Creasy
- Westmoreland Schools by John F. Creasy
Other Communities and Place Names
- Excerpt from Old Sumner, A History of Sumner County, Tennessee, From 1805 to 1861 by Walter Durham
- Local Names Tell Much About County's History by The News-Examiner
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