HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY

Comprising

AN ACCOUNT OF THE ACTS CONNECTED WITH THE EARLY
SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY; THE ORIGIN AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY; SLAVERY, THE CIVIL
WAR, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION DAYS; THE
WORLD WAR AND PRESENT CONDITIONS.

By AUBURN POWERS
A Resident of Henderson County; a Student of the University
of Tennessee; a Teacher; and a Traveler.

1930

- Photograph, Auburn Powers
- Preface
- Photograph, Henderson County Court House
- Introduction
Chapter I, EARLY SETTLEMENT
Chapter II, THE PIONEERS
- Photographs, An Old-fashioned Rail Fence; Rock Hill Cemetery; A Modern Country Home, Dewey Howell's
Chapter III, THE MAKING OF THE COUNTY
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Photographs, Chesterfield Schoolhouse; Mt. Ararat Church; Tennessee Middlin Railroad; Joseph Reed's Razor Now Owned by Reader Buck
Chapter XIII, MEN OF NOTE
- 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]