yesterday's tennessee

Yesterday's Henderson County

Henderson County, Tennessee History Page

Community

• Aerial Views of Lexington 1953 (photos)
• Alberton Community/School and the Hare Family, Brenda Kirk Fiddler
  
  • Photographs
• The Alberton News and Mrs. John L. Hare, Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Antioch News and Other Articles, Mrs. A. H. Taylor
• Before Natchez Trace State Park: Old Survey Community and Precinct School, Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• By-Laws Bargerton Lodge No. 577 I.O.O.F. (1911)
• Blue Goose Community Has Long Interesting History, Wilma Cogdell
• Clearing the Way for the Farmers State Bank Branch, Lexington
• Fallen but not Forgotten, the legacy of Albert S. Cook, Albert Laheije
• Farmville, H. J. Bolen
• The Fourth Celebrated - 1916
• "Good Old Golden Rule Days" -- Bethel School & the Safford Community, Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Granny Smith Cemetery, Scotts Hill, TN
• Henderson County Roads - 1930, Lexington Progress
• Historic Photographs of Middlefork (from the photograph collection of W. Clay Crook
• History of Darden, compiled by Jewell Reeves
• History of Sardis, Tennessee, Beulah Hanna and Carra Holland
• History: Henderson County Schools 1940-41, compiled by Louise Oakley (For each rural school in the county, most one- or two-room, an attempt was made to give origin of community and school names, first settler, oldest house, oldest resident, first and current stores and storeowners, churches, and mail carrier.)
• The History of Scotts Hill, Tennessee, Gordon H. Turner, Sr.
• Homes of Lexington (1910) (photographs)
• I Remember (Pleasant Exchange), H. J. Bolen
• The Kolwyck’s of Darden, Belinda L. Jowers
• Letter from Mifflin - 1861, Becky Burdick McLaughlin
• Lexington [and other communities], Auburn Powers
• Memories of Old Alberton, Walter Roberts
• Middlefork (photo essay)
• Mt. Gilead School Pictures
• The Red Mound Area in Henderson County, Tennessee, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Princess Theater
• Scotts Hill Historical Photographs
• Scotts Hill's History Lives on Thru Fire & Storm, Lillye Younger
• SKI JUMPING IN THE 1950S, Brenda Fiddler
• Warren's Bluff Around 1918
• Wildersville; One of Henderson County's Liveliest Business Towns, Lexington Progress (1903)*

Henderson County Times Community Series (1980-1982)

• The Center Hill Story-Yesterday and Today, Rebecca Vineyard and Louise Clenney
• The Glory Days: A Look at Lexington's Past
• History of Broadway-Sand Ridge
• Huron, Jo Ann Gross
• Middlefork: A Forgotten Community, W. Clay Crook
• Reagan, Rebecca Vineyard and Louise Clenney
• Rhodes Town, Dorothy Nell Ward
• Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Nell Keen

This page is to help make Henderson County history more accessible by sharing over the Internet some of the materials which are available.  Do you have a history of your church, school, community, or business?  How about your grandfather's farm journal or a story told by your grandmother about a memorable event?

Please contact me to share it with others.