Old Post Offices and Communities

The following list of towns, villages and place names have been compiled by Betty Wynn Sumara and Abigail Rice Hyde. Sources include County records, County Court minutes , school board records, United States Postal records and personal knowledge.

The list will undoubtedly be incomplete, although we have made a concerted effort to present as accurately as possible a document that will be useful to future generations.

In an effort to avoid repetition, we have used "Lake County" throughout this work even if the event referred to took place prior to 1870 when Lake County was formed from the portion of Obion County lying West of Reelfoot Lake.

The districts are numbered as originally laid out in the organization of Lake County.

One note to keep in mind, the postmaster of a village was not a secure position in the early days. The job changed as the political party in power changed. A Democratic President of the United States had the power to appoint a new postmaster if he so desired and he usually did appoint one of his supporters. When a Republican President was elected, all the Democratic appointees were almost always replaced by a Republican supporter.

Most post offices were in a corner of a business house in each town or village. When a new postmaster was appointed the post office would be moved to a location designated by the new postmaster. When this occurred, it was not unusual for the village post office name to be changed. ie. See the village of Madie. There were some cases where a village was known by a name for many years and upon applying for a postal permit, there would already be a post office by that name in Tennessee, therefore the village name was necessarily changed as in the case of the village of Mooring.

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LIST OF VILLAGES

BASS LANDING	BESSIE	BLUEBANK
BIG SURVEY	BINGHAM	CAMP GROUND CHURCH
CANE RIDGE	CARRINGTON LANDING	CHANDLERS MILL
CHEROKEE LANDING	COTTONWOOD	CRONANVILLE
CHAMPY (CHAMPION) POCKET	DARNELL'S LANDING	DEAD MAN'S CORNER
DONEHOUR LANDING	DEWBERRY CORNER	EGYPT
FARRIS	FUQUA	GREYS CAMP
GREASY LAND	GREEN ROW	HATHAWAY
HAYNES SWITCH	HICKORY RIDGE	HOCAKE
HORNRIDGE	HORTENSE	JOLLY'S LANDING (ABOVE CRONANVILLE)
KEEFE	LA DUKE LANDING	LACY'S STORE
LAKEVIEW	MADIE	MARION
MARKHAM	MARRS LANDING	MILE LANE
MITCHELLS LANDING	MOORING	MUD LAKE
OREGON	OWL CITY	OWL HOOT
PECKS MILL	PASCHALL LANE	POWELL'S FERRY
PHILLIPY	PROCTOR CITY	REELFOOT
RICHARDSON'S CORNER	RIDGELY	RILEY'S LANDING
SHEEP RIDGE	SALEM	SWAMP POODLE
SILVERTOP	TANK TWO	TENBROOK
TIPTONVILLE	TITAN	TURNERTOWN
WASHOUT	WAGGONERS LANE	WOODS H2O HOLE (had a hotel and a sawmill)

Copyright 1998

by

Lake County TN Historical Society

This page was last updated 

November 03, 2001 05:41 PM

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