The Goodspeed brothers originally published their A History
of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical
and a Biographical Sketch of ... , they would usually combine the general state history with group of county histories including the associated vanity
biographies into a single volume. The general history would take up the first
796 pages, with the county pages following. Example: Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb,
Warren, and White counties would complete a volume, with the counties pages
running 797 to 992.
When Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., of Southern Historical Press reprinted the
Goodspeed History of Tennessee ... , Rev. Lucas printed the main state history
as a separate volume but retained the county groupings as found
in the originals and printed them apart from the general history.
Facsimile reproductions (small print)
- Woodward and Stinson, Columbia TN, 1970s
- Randy Elder, Bookseller, Nashville, TN, 1970s > current (?)
- Mountain Press, Signal Mountain TN (individual counties) current.
- Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1970s > current.
Reset type
- Serviceberry Press. (Only four West TN county histories are available.) Current.
Source
How Goodspeed Divided the Counties
- History of Tennessee from the earliest time to
the present ... [state history]:
Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White
Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Carroll, Henry and Benton Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin
Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- City of Jackson and the County of
Madison: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- County of Knox and the city of
Knoxville: Southern Historical Press, 1982.
- Fayette and Hardeman Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and
Moore Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Hamilton, Knox and Shelby
Counties: Elder Booksellers (Nashville), 1974
- Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood
and Crockett Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman
and Lewis Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Maury, Williamson, Rutherford,
Wilson, Bedford and Marshall: Southern Historical Press.
- Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys,
Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, and Houston Counties: Southern
Historical Press, 1979.
- Sumner, Smith, Macon and
Trousdale Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- The History Thirty East Tennessee Counties:
Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount,
Bradley, Campbell, Clairborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen,
Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon,
McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan,
Unicol, Union, and Washington: Southern Historical Press. 1980-1991
[Only one Bledsoe County Biography appears in the Book.
The entire Bledsoe County section was omitted by Goodspeed.]
