This was a busy landing and crossing point on the Tennessee River; a waterway of strategic importance during the war. After the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, the Confederates’ hope of maintaining control of Paris Landing . . . — — Map (db m109035) HM
In early March 1864, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman took command of the Union armies in the war's Western Theater. His immediate strategy was to move from his base in Chattanooga toward Atlanta, capture the city's Confederate supply depot, and in the . . . — — Map (db m225310) HM
This section of Scott Fitzhugh Bridge that once spanned the Tennessee River at Paris Landing is preserved on this site as a memorial to Mr. Fitzhugh, Paris attorney who served as Speaker of the State Senate. The original bridge, built in 1930, was . . . — — Map (db m225311) HM
Supply by River and Rail
Beginning with the capture of Nashville by the Union army in February 1862, hundreds of thousands of tons of materials flowed from northern industrial and agricultural areas south, through Louisville, Kentucky . . . — — Map (db m225314) HM
When the Jackson Purchase was opened to settlement in 1818, one of Asbury's circuit riders, John Manley, located and took up land near here. He organized Manley's Chapel, probably the first church in the Purchase area, in 1821. Tennessee Conference . . . — — Map (db m192703) HM
In the month cf March, 1864, Company G, Seventh Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, was detailed to escort Tennessee's Governor Isham Green Harris to Paris. Near Mansfield they encountered a detachment of Federal soldiers and a spirited engagement took . . . — — Map (db m179622) HM
On this ridge on March 11, 1862, 450 Confederate troops under the command of Major H. Clay King, 1st Kentucky Battalion, Cavalry, and Stack's and McCutchan's unattached Tennessee Companies were attacked by Federal troops from Fort Henry. 20 . . . — — Map (db m52841) HM
David Jackson was a famous Rocky Mountain fur trader, explorer, businessperson, and namesake for Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the Teton region. During the War of 1812, he served as an Ensign in Ohio. In January 1837 Jackson traveled to Paris, . . . — — Map (db m142326) HM
Singer, evangelist and educator Dr. Bobby Jones popularized African-American gospel music on cable television. He became known as the "Ed Sullivan of Gospel Music." His Black Entertainment Television (BET) show, "Bobby Jones Gospel," ran from 1980 . . . — — Map (db m179617) HM
The E. W. Grove-Henry County High School was one of Tennessee's first privately-endowed public high schools. Chattanooga architect Reuben Harrison Hunt designed Grove Tower, the school's first building. The cornerstone, laid on June 26, 1906, . . . — — Map (db m155862) HM
Born in Hardeman County, E.W. Grove came to Paris, Tennessee, in 1874 as a pharmacist. He developed in 1878 Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic, which was sold worldwide through the Paris Medicine Company, as a malaria treatment and preventative. By 1891, . . . — — Map (db m108997) HM
First congregation formed in the 1820s on Market Street
Worshipped in building on Poplar Street 1866 - 1913
First Sunday school class formed by J.S. Brown in 1860
First vacation bible school in Paris — 1890
Worshipped in Circuit . . . — — Map (db m155870) HM
On October 28, 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, C.S.A., began his famous Johnsonville Raid by placing masked batteries on the banks of the Tennessee River here at Paris Landing and about five miles north at abandoned Fort Heiman. With the use . . . — — Map (db m81946) HM
The home of James D. Porter,
Tennessee Governor 1875-79, was
designed by and built for Thomas
Wall Crawford in 1848, later owned
by the Dunlap family, and inherited by Porters wife, Susanna, in
1887. After many years of public
service, . . . — — Map (db m155864) HM
Tom C. Rye was born in Camden on June 2, 1863. He moved to Paris, Tennessee in 1902, where he was elected attorney general of the 13th Judicial District. Rye was governor of Tennessee, 1915-1919. He supported prohibition and the Ouster Law, which . . . — — Map (db m155827) HM
Built in 1896 — West Tennessee's oldest working courthouse
Court-first held in Peter Wall's home in 1821. A log courthouse built in Clifty 1823. Two story brick courthouse erected on this land in 1825 and replaced in 1852.
The . . . — — Map (db m155871) HM
(Front):
Henry County Courthouse
This Courthouse was designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga and built by Ed M. Wallen of New Decatur, Alabama, in 1896. It is the third courthouse on this site and is one of West Tennessee's . . . — — Map (db m81947) HM
Born near here Dec. 17,1828. Member, General Assembly of 1859, later served the Confederacy as Chief of Staff to Gen. B.P. Cheatham. Member, Constitutional Convention of 1870. Governor, 1875-79; president N.C. & St. L. RR, 1880-1884. Assistant . . . — — Map (db m108999) HM
Born in Henry County, J.D.C. Atkins was a member, Tenn. General Assembly, 1849-53 and 1855-57; U.S. Congressman, 1857-59 and 1873-83; Lt. Col., 5th TN Infantry, CSA. 1861; Rep., Confederate Congress, 1861-65; co-founder, Paris Intelligencer, 1867; . . . — — Map (db m108998) HM
From 1837 to 1841, John W. Crockett, the son of David Crockett, represented the same congressional district as his father, after the legendary frontiersman died at the Alamo in 1836. He married Martha Hamilton in 1828 and practiced law in Paris. . . . — — Map (db m109045) HM
Built by Barton Lasater in 1920. Purchased 1923 by Sidney Mandle, owner of Kentucky/Tennessee Clay Company. Bricks made in Puryear from Henry County clay. Remodeled and expanded in 1933 to a Colonial design with Georgian Revival influence . . . — — Map (db m155866) HM
Wrought iron section removed
from
the original court house lawn in 1894
and installed on the Ruff Street side
North, east and south sides
installed in 1972
Wrought iron section completed 1999
Funded by
Paris City Cemetery . . . — — Map (db m155873) HM
This historic site was dedicated to education in 1825 by the founding citizens of Paris and Henry County. It was the Paris Male Academy, a private school, until 1881, when public education began as the Paris City School. Around 1906 the building . . . — — Map (db m155913) HM
"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty of public responsibility. It must not be denied them.”
Dr. W. Mordecai Johnson,
Educator, . . . — — Map (db m109044)
Named in honor of Brig. Gen. Lawrence D. Tyson U.S. Senator and veteran of the Spanish-American and First World wars, Camp Tyson was the only barrage balloon training center in the U.S. Army during World War II. Construction began on this 6,115 . . . — — Map (db m32471) HM
