Center Ridge School, established in the late 19th century, was located at this site. A white, framed building, the school served the Center Ridge community until 1956, when it was consolidated with a nearby school. The Unity United Methodist Church, . . . — — Map (db m57557) HM
Built ca. 1845, the hotel once located on this site was among the first public buildings in Raleigh. During the Civil War, it was used as headquarters for Col. Robert Lowry, future governor of Mississippi. Political figures, including Jefferson . . . — — Map (db m173380) HM
First incorporated in 1838.
Raleigh succeeded Fairfield as
the county seat of Smith Co.
The town, earlier known as
Indian Springs, was formed in
1835. Home of the National
Tobacco Spitting Contest. — — Map (db m284574) HM
The frontier town of Shongelo was
located here around the grist mill
of C.D. Austin. Constructed in the
early 1800s, the mill was powered
by water flowing from seven springs
found in hollows east of this site.
By 1923, the Shongelo . . . — — Map (db m284581) HM
Built in 1913, the Smith County Courthouse was designed by the Weathers-Foley Company of Memphis in the Neo-Classical Style. Cost of construction was $50.000. The present structure replaced an earlier courthouse on this site, built in 1892, which . . . — — Map (db m173379) HM
A noted poet, editor, and educator, John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was one of a group of southern agrarian poets known as the Fugitives. Ransom's first teaching position, at age 17, was at Taylorsville High School (1905-1906). He later became a . . . — — Map (db m59303) HM
Constructed in 1901, this rectangular wood-frame building served as the Taylorsville Signal newspaper office until the late 1960s. Hattie and Marie Watkins took over the newspaper in 1930 after the death of their father, James Thomas Watkins, . . . — — Map (db m126796) HM
