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Gibson County Map, Detail extracted from Tennessee map by F. Lucas, Jr., 1826, showing Gibsonport as county seat.

Gibson County Map, Detail extracted from United States Map by Henry Schenck Tanner, 1834, showing Trenton as county seat.

Gibson County Court House, Trenton.

Cover of 1825 Washington City letter. From D Crockett to Mr James L Totten Esqr, Trenton Tenn. From University of Tennessee Digital Library Database, Document: sc022

David Crockett.
“In 1821, Crockett ran for a seat in the Tennessee legislature and won. Six years later, he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Throughout his political career Crockett had created an image of himself as a homespun, ‘common’ man. He advertised the fact that he had never read a law book and possessed only a rudimentary education. Crockett served two terms, but when he argued against Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal bill, his supporters deserted him and he lost a close bid for a third term.” (Quote Source.)

Confederate Soldier, Pvt. Robert Patterson, Company D, 12th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A. Library of Congress photograph (82k).
CALL NUMBER, Civil War Reference File
REPRODUCTION NUMBER, LC-B8184-10038 DLC (intermediary roll film)
PART OF Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
REPOSITORY, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

“Night Riders posed in costume in Gibson County, 1908. At nearby Reelfoot Lake [Lake County], masked vigilantes conducted a campaign of terror against land developers who tried to limit commercial fishing rights on the lake.” Photo and quote taken from Looking Back at Tennessee; A Photographic Retrospective by Dr. Wayne C. Moore with Mark Herbison, Hillsboro Press, Franklin TN, 1996. Tennessee State Library and Archives photograph.

Old Truck, in an old barn near Yorkville. Photo, © Rhett Hightower, 1995.

Skullbone Store, Skullbone TN.

North Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Kenton TN. Church Website.

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