Weakley County Courthouse
in
Dresden, Tennessee
This picture was donated
to me
from the "Research of Carolyn Hilliard Barton" -
Matt Parham
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Notes...... This photo brought back
many good
memories. Our Dad, Grooms Herron, was the Clerk
and Master of the
Chancery Court, with the office being on the 1st floor,
NW corner of
the courthouse. Although he was gone to WWII for
the later part
of the war, he remained the Clerk and Master, and was in
office when it
burned shortly after the war. Being born in 1937,
I played in and
around the courthouse for much of that time.
But the purpose of this posting is to relate an example of how times have changed. Dresden had an old model T (might have been an A) hose carrier fire engine until shortly after WWII. It would not reliably start, so it was kept at Tom Regan's garage, on the street leading South from the SW corner of the square. They kept it there so Tom could tow it to a fire with his wrecker! When I was in the fourth grade the City finally got a new pumper. The whole school was let out and marched down the hill to the square. There the City demonstrated the power of the new engine by pumping a stream completely over the Courthouse! Needless to say, it did not keep the old Courthouse from burning completely, the next year I believe [1949]. But perhaps it did keep other buildings on the Square from going. Submitted by Dean Herron |
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