{"id":2063,"date":"2020-09-29T03:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T08:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2020-09-29T03:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T08:20:26","slug":"us-census-map-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/us-census-map-1870\/","title":{"rendered":"US CENSUS MAP 1870"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>US Census Map of Weakley County Districts 1-18<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Looking at new maps and old maps &#8212; including the 1880 map by Pansy Nanney Baker and Charlotte Stout Reynolds &#8212; I created this simple map on the computer of the 18 Civil Districts plus post offices to give you an idea of where in Weakley County your Kinfolk lived.\u00a0 It is not to scale.\u00a0 District 2 did become part of Obion County in 1870 but not officially until July, 1870.\u00a0 The U.S. Census asked\u00a0 &#8216;your place of abode on June 1, 1870&#8217; thus District 2 was counted as part of Weakley County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Waterways are exaggerated, they played a major role in the making of early Districts. All but one of the Districts borders\u00a0 on either a branch of the Obion River&#8211; North Fork, Middle Fork, South Fork or on Spring Creek. It was difficult for people to cross the rivers to get to polling places in the early years, thus the\u00a0 infamous land swap in 1837 between Weakley and Gibson counties along the South Fork of\u00a0 Obion River which switched Davy Crockett&#8217;s cabin from Weakley to Gibson county.\u00a0\u00a0 Can you find the district that does not border on a waterway?\u00a0 It borders a major road of the time, the Dresden-Troy Road.\u00a0 Until 1870 Troy was County seat of Obion County, Dresden still is County seat of Weakley County.\u00a0 County seats were near the middle of Districts for equal access by all. <em>Submitted\u00a0By MaryCarol<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1870map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1870map.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1870map-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"42\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/barlavrose.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2066\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/records-data\/\">BACK to RECORDS\/DATA <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Web Design &amp; Graphics by MaryCarol<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Census Map of Weakley County Districts 1-18 Looking at new maps and old maps &#8212; including the 1880 map by Pansy Nanney Baker and Charlotte Stout Reynolds &#8212; I created this simple map on the computer of the 18 Civil Districts plus post offices to give you an idea of where in Weakley County <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/us-census-map-1870\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 29, 2020","modified":"Updated on September 29, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 29, 2020 3:14 am","modified":"Updated on September 29, 2020 3:20 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}