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Between The River and The Slough
Our Tennessee Towns, One of a SeriesIn Reverie, they never know what trick the deadly Mississippi will pull next. Each may be the last one – for the town.Story and Pictures by Bob Kollar Like vesuvius at Pompeii, The River is always there, beautiful and dangerous. The River, and its little brother, The Slough. To ...
Bowden School
A Look at Tipton County’s Historical Schools BOWDEN SCHOOL | Not much is known about Bowden School. Teacher pay records show that it was in existence in 1911 but school records at the Tipton County School Board are few and the only teacher record books still available encompasses the years 1922-1926. Bowden was a small community school ...
City of Covington Tennessee
Town of Covington Early History: Soon after the founding of the County in 1823, Commissioners were appointed by the Tennessee State Legislature to locate a suitable site for a County Seat. In the year 1824, these Commissioners completed their task by choosing a site near the center of the County upon a commanding hill with ...
City of Munford Tennessee
The earliest records for the Town of Munford began in the early 1850s when the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church moved what is now downtown Munford. The church stood where the present day Munford Presbyterian Church now stands. Shortly after Mt. Zion moved, a small village grew around the church. The church ...
Destruction of the Town of Randolph
Destruction of the Town of Randolph. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing from on board the steamer Eugene on the 25th inst., gives the following particulars of the destruction of Randolph, Tennessee: The Cairo and Memphis packet Eugene, on her last trip down – Tuesday, 22nd inst. — was hailed at Randolph about three ...
Famous Randolph of 1835 and 1921
ONCE PROUD LITTLE CAPITAL PASSES INTO HISTORY Surrenders Charter After An Existence of Ninety Years – Spacious Harbor Once Crowded With Craft – Destroyed by Federal Troops During Civil War – Once a Rival of Memphis For Supremacy. (By J. H. Curtis, in Memphis Commercial Appeal, Sunday April 17.) Randolph, once the proud and haughty little capital which ...
Historic West Tennessee Church & Cemetery Targeted by Vandals
HISTORIC WEST TENNESSEE CHURCH AND CEMETERY TARGETED BY VANDALS | (WMC-TV) – Churches and cemeteries should be peaceful places, but members of Old Trinity Episcopal Church in Mason, Tennessee said that is not the case after their historic house of worship has been desecrated by vandals. Old Trinity Episcopal Church and Cemetery sit on the National Historic ...
Island 37 and the Mississippi River
ISLAND 37 AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER | A century ago, on July 31, 1915, a group of Arkansas militiamen raided a camp of bootleggers and other lawbreakers on what was then known as Island 37 on the Mississippi River. Sam Mauldin, sheriff of Mississippi County, Arkansas, was killed in the raid. The criminal case that ...
Large Plantations in Tipton County
The following is a list of the top ten large plantations in Tipton county. The list includes acreage and slave holdings for the years 1850 and 1860 in districts nine and ten of Tipton county. The acreage given for Mrs. Lucy L Maclin is a close estimate, including property in Haywood and Fayette ...
Memories of Island 35 by Gladys Byford Turner
Tipton County TennesseebyGladys Byford TurnerCastle BooksPublishers of Biographies The Island Before My Time ISLAND 35: When I started writing this book, I planned to write as I knew the island in the years I lived there, starting with what information I had read about, like when it was settled, when the post office was established, the ...
Randolph, Tennessee
Rollin’ On The RiverDo You Remember the Good Ole Days? by Helen Ballard FORWARD The ...
Shank Memories of Reverie (Part 1)
My fascination with Reverie started along time ago with Dad telling stories about the ferry and the island. I’d tell him I wanted to see it but he would tell me none of it was there anymore. I guess by that time, things had changed. Recently, while rummaging through forums and documents ...
The Raid on Randolph Tennessee
This is an excerpt from a thesis by Thomas Lee Anderson on ” JOHN BENNETT WALTERS, TOTAL WAR, AND THE RAID ON RANDOLPH TENNESSEE” Raid on Randolph Tennessee – Total War Raid on Randolph Tennessee: Historical marker for Randolph, Tennessee. Marker is located in Atoka, TN on US 51. I took the photo myself, ...
Tipton – September 1887
TIPTON COUNTY – September 1887 | Reported by John R Sloan. Covington, Tenn., Aug. 28. – Tipton is one of the five West Tennessee counties bordering on the Mississippi river, and is noted for the fertility of its soil and the extent, variety and value of its forests. Covington, the county seat, is situated on the plateau ...
Tipton County, Tennessee
Counties of Tennesseeby Austin P. Foster, A.M.Assistant State Librarian and Archivist TIPTON COUNTY was erected on October 29, 1823, from the Western District and named “in memory of Capt. Jacob Tipton, who fell at St. Clair’s defeat.” By the act which created this county provision was made that the county and circuit court should meet ...
Tipton County’s Island 37
TIPTON COUNTY’S ISLAND 37 | Island 37 is a stretch of land that is in the legal possession of the State of Tennessee but is physically joined to Arkansas. Because competing claims of jurisdiction left it in something of a legal void, Island 37 became an outpost for bootleggers and other criminals. Police action taken ...
Town of Brighton Tennessee
The Town of Brighton was established in the year 1873 along the newly completed tracts of the Memphis and Paducah Railroad upon the lands of A. W. Smith, Sr. who gave the initial five acres for the Depot grounds. The new town was named for Mr. Bright, the first conductor on the Memphis Division of ...
Town of Burlison Tennessee
Town of Burlison is a relatively new town, having been incorporated in 1965 although the community is at least one hundred years older. It all began with the Symrna Baptist Church. The church and adjoining graveyard became the focal point of the area and a community grew-up around it. By 1881 the community had grown ...
Town of Garland Tennessee
Town of Garland was established sometime in the early 1870’s. In 1872 a post office was opened in the Archer Store there and it was named “Garland” in honor of Dr. John C. Garland, a noted physician in the village. On February 14, 1913, Garland was incorporated by an Act of the Tennessee General Assembly. ...
Town of Mason Tennessee
The Town of Mason has its beginnings in 1855 with the completion of the Memphis & Ohio Railroad through the southeastern corner of Tipton County. The town was named for James E. Mason, a local planter who donated the land for the depot grounds and sidetracks. The town was initially known as Mason’s Depot but ...