{"id":557,"date":"2023-06-09T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/?p=557"},"modified":"2023-06-10T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T12:02:29","slug":"chronology-important-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/chronology-important-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronology & Important Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/th>Event<\/th>Source<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1540-41<\/td>DeSoto camps in Indian village here during the winter (local legend)<\/td>Goodspeed, 767.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1784<\/td>Land explorers pass through this section.<\/td>Goodspeed, 767.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>North Carolina land grants issued here.<\/td>Goodspeed, 767.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spring 1806<\/td>Tennessee surveying party passes through.<\/td>Goodspeed, 767.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fall 1806<\/td>Ezekiel Norris probably first permanent white settler.<\/td>Goodspeed, 768.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1809-10<\/td>Davy Crockett lives on West Branch of Mulberry Creek.<\/td>Goodspeed, 768.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1809<\/td>County established effective 1 Jan 1810. Militia form the 39th Regiment attached to the 5th Brigade.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1810<\/td>First County Jail erected.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1811<\/td>First permanent Court House erected.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1812?<\/td>2,000 troops rendevouz in Fayetteville and march off to war.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1820<\/td>Federal census: population is 14,963.<\/td>Waller, 1820 census.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1826<\/td>Poor Farm established and Poor House erected.<\/td>Goodspeed, 772.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1830<\/td>Mulberry Academy established.<\/td>Goodspeed, 780.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1835<\/td>County divided into 25 Civil Districts.<\/td>Waller, 1840 census, 109.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1836<\/td>One company forms and marches off to war.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1840<\/td>Federal census: population is 21,497.<\/td>Waller, 1840 census, 108.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1846<\/td>One company of 83 men (the Lincoln Guard) enlist. Several members killed at the Battle of Monterey.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1850<\/td>Fayetteville Observer (newspaper) established.<\/td>Goodspeed, 779.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1858<\/td>Fayetteville connected to Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad by branch line to Decherd.<\/td>Goodspeed, 772.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>450 foot stone arch bridge built over the Elk River.<\/td>Goodspeed, 772.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>2,892 vote for separation, 0 for no separation.<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>Four companies join Turney's 1st Tennessee Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 775.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>Four companies join Fulton's 8th Tennessee Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 776.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>Two companies join the 32nd Tennessee Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 776.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>Four companies join Farquharson's 41st Tennessee Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 776.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>Four companies join McDaniel's 44th Tennessee Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 776.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>One company joins the 55th Tennessee Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1862<\/td>One company joins a Kentucky Regiment<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1862<\/td>One company formed by J.L. Moore as last full company to enter war.<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1862<\/td>Freeman's Battery, part of Hardin's Artillery receives 50 county men.<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1862<\/td>Majority of Forrest's escort are county men.<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1862<\/td>Federals occupy Fayetteville April 9th, withdrawing within two months.<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1863<\/td>Federals re-occupy Fayetteville remaining until 1865 (some county records destroyed).<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1864?<\/td>Sherman's Army marches through Fayetteville.<\/td>Goodspeed, 777.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1868<\/td>New Jail House erected.<\/td>Goodspeed, 772.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1873<\/td>Original Court House torn down and replaced.<\/td>Goodspeed, 772.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1882<\/td>Narrow gauge railroad built from Columbia to Fayetteville.<\/td>Goodspeed, 772.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}