yesterday's tennessee

HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY

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  • Photograph, Auburn Powers
  • Preface
  • Photograph, Henderson County Court House
  • Introduction
• Chapter I, EARLY SETTLEMENT
• Chapter II, THE PIONEERS
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  • Photographs, An Old-fashioned Rail Fence; Rock Hill Cemetery; A Modern Country Home, Dewey Howell's
• Chapter III, THE MAKING OF THE COUNTY
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  • Photographs, Dorsey Stewart, Sheriff; Harrison Thomas, who witnessed his brother's death in Andersonville Prison; A muzzle-loading rifle used in the Battle of New Orleans, now owned by John Wash Fesmire
• Chapter IV, EARLY DEVELOPMENT
• Chapter V, SLAVERY
• Chapter VI, THE CIVIL WAR
• Chapter VII, RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
• Chapter VIII, MISCELLANEOUS FACTS
• Chapter IX, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES
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  • Photographs, Outstanding Educators: Prof. J. O. Brown; Prof. Arthur Bobbitt; Supt. R. E. Powers; Prof. Luther Bobbitt [Note: Damaged Luther Bobbitt photo replaced with scan from a xerox copy.]
  • Photographs, Lexington High School, Scotts Hill High School
• Chapter X, PROGRESS AND MODERNISM
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  • Photographs, World War Victims: Capt. V. C. Halter; Riley Jefferson Climer, Sidney Ayres, Jesse Powers, Jesse Leonard Deere, Clay Woods
• Chapter XI, THE WORLD WAR
• Chapter XII, PRESENT CONDITIONS
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  • Photographs, Chesterfield Schoolhouse; Mt. Ararat Church; Tennessee Middlin Railroad; Joseph Reed's Razor Now Owned by Reader Buck
• Chapter XIII, MEN OF NOTE
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  • Photograph, Judge W. H. Denison
  • Photographs, Dr. Martin P. Boyd Beloved physician of the almost forgotten town of Farmville for half a century; W. V. Barry
  • Photographs, Some Present County Officials: C. L. Scates; T. R. Sisson; Paul Parker; A. R. Wallace
  • Photograph, P. O. Roberts
• Chapter XIV, LEXINGTON [and other communities]