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The county was named after Colonel Robert Weakley, a member of the House of Representatives, a speaker of the State Senate, and the man commissioned to treat (negotiate) with the Chickasaw. [4] During the 19th century, the county was the state's largest corn producer. By the latter half of the 20th century, soybeans became the county's leading ...
Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999 [8] The Chattanooga Star: Chattanooga 1907 1908 Chattanooga Times: Chattanooga 1869 1999 [18] The Commercial Bulletin: Jackson 1880 [15] Knoxville Gazette: Knoxville 1792 1818 [16] Knoxville Journal: Knoxville 1991 [16] Knoxville ...
Sharon is a town in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 988 at the 2000 census and 944 at the 2010 census. By the 2020 census, the population ...
Weakley County Press, a newspaper in Martin, Tennessee This page was last edited on 28 September 2018, at 21:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
William Martin was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1806, and moved to Weakley County, Tennessee with his wife Sarah in 1832. [5] Captain Martin prospered through tobacco farming and began working to establish a railroad connection in what would later become Martin in 1852. [ 5 ]
They called themselves the Checkers, and the first evidence of their dream, the Checkerboard, appeared in the Weakley County Press in January and February 1928. They also published a standalone issue of the Checkerboard later in the spring of 1928 and then published a magazine by the same name at the end of the 1927–28 academic year.
Gardner was founded in 1856 by its namesake, Colonel John Almus Gardner.He was the first president of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad (a predecessor to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway) and he owned the land on which the town was established.
Dukedom is an unincorporated community in both Graves County, Kentucky and Weakley County, Tennessee, straddling the state line in the western part of both states. The location is 36°30′8″N 88°42′54″W / 36.50222°N 88.71500°W / 36.50222; -88.71500 ; The elevation is 487 feet above sea