School Gymnasium,
This gym was completed in
1950 @ a cost of $110,000.
It was considered one of the
better gyms in the area at that
time. The first game was
played February 15, 1950.
Scotts Hill won both games
defeating Lexington. . . . — — Map (db m306175) HM
Operated at this location
2 Highway 114 South
Scotts Hill School Parking Lot
Temporary Trailer Classrooms
Scotts Hill Clinic Trailer
Scotts Hill Post Office
Temporary Trailer used as Post Office
until New Post Office was Built . . . — — Map (db m308945) HM
Scotts Hill Elementary School,
New Building built for new Science Lab 2002
Home Economics Building,
Sold to Scotts Hill High School in 1959,
Brick Building tore down in 2002
Scotts Hill Church of Christ,
Brick Building built in . . . — — Map (db m306176) HM
At this location
20 Highway 114 South
Farmers State Bank
W.B. Turner House
House on left side of bank lot razed to make room for new bank.
& Bert Crosser House
House on right side of bank lot moved to Cedar Grove . . . — — Map (db m310603) HM
The one and only City Jail or Calaboose was built in 1947. It was built by Alvie Heath, local carpenter and block layer of that time. Early Police Chiefs such as Jess White, Jim Hayes, Ola Lee Duck, Travis Carter, Preston Parker and others used . . . — — Map (db m305626) HM
Businesses that have operated at this location
40 Church Street
Buckingham Tool & Die
Martin Machine Works
I.D.S. Incorporated
J.M. Brasher Body Works
Scotts Hill Bottling Works
L.C. Cola
Les Adkisson Shop
Tennessee America . . . — — Map (db m305627) HM
Businesses that have operated at this location
61 Highway 114 South
Hometown Roots
Hair Fashions
Charlotte's Beauty Shop
NAPA Auto Parts
Coy Mangrum Barber Shop
Tennessee America 250 Project — — Map (db m308065) HM
Scotts Hill Police
Scotts Hill Fire
The telephone building was moved to the other side of town by Roy Medlin with his bulldozer in 1958.
Peoples Telephone Co
Home Telephone Co — — Map (db m301723) HM
Businesses that have operated at this location
Buck’s Lumber Warehouse,
Hill Theathre,
built in 1948 by Earl Buck and Gene Helms with Homemade blocks made on site. The Theathre operated until 1963. This was a very popular venue, people from . . . — — Map (db m305628) HM
As the Church of Christ spread into West Tennessee, Benjamin Austin and his wife Lucinda heard and obeyed the gospel. It was 1872 when they became Christians and started having Church services each Lord's Day in their home about 1/2 mile West of . . . — — Map (db m204145) HM
First burial was Daniel H. Murphy, first Murphy to settle in area. At this location was Center School as well as well as the first Methodist Church. It was built by Romulus Sanders Swift in 1843, one of the first Swifts to settle in the area. The . . . — — Map (db m304686) HM
Farmers State Bank was founded in 1906 by a small group of Scotts Hill investors. In the early years, the bank financed ventures and supported the mainly rural, agricultural communities it served. Even as the economic focus of the area shifted . . . — — Map (db m157622) HM
Ralph Holmes gave this property for a public cemetery. Micager Scott,
of whom the town was named after was the first adult burial in 1853.
Other early burials are Ralph Holmes; Isaac Davenport, Union Soldier
captured by General Forrest, survived . . . — — Map (db m307615) HM
This graveyard site was donated in the 1830s by first settler, Charles Austin. His wife, known as Granny Austin, died in 1854, hence, the name. After the Civil War, better roads to newer cemeteries, this fell into disuse. With more than 50 graves . . . — — Map (db m205591) HM
Across the road from the Methodist Church and a little to the north,
The first store in the community built of popular logs in the 1840s,
became an early stage stop, along the newly built Stagecoach Rd.
The stagecoach carried passengers and . . . — — Map (db m306139) HM
B.A. Tucker
Born in Decatur County, Tenn.
Dec, 3, 1861
Died in Scotts Hill, Tenn.
April 30, 1903
Aged
41 yrs. 4 mos. 7 days
[Unreadable]
This Monument was erected to the sacred memory of Prof. B.A. Tucker founder of Scotts Hill . . . — — Map (db m157621) HM
(preface)
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry brigade on a raid through West Tennessee, Dec 15, 1862-Jan 3, 1863, destroying railroads and severing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's supply line between Columbus, Kentucky, and Vicksburg, . . . — — Map (db m142782) HM
Cemetery is the largest in the Scotts Hill area,
probably the 2nd largest cemetery in Henderson Co.
It is the final resting place of many of the early town
leaders, such as Ephraim Austin, storekeeper,
postmaster, cotton ginner before 1900; . . . — — Map (db m306137) HM
The Scotts Hill Lions Club, American Legion Post 243, Ebenezer Lodge 441 F. & A.M. and the citizens of Scotts Hill dedicate this memorial to all veterans living or deceased who have honorably served their country that freedom may reign. — — Map (db m142781) WM
