Paris, Tennessee
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Paris, Tennessee (USA) is a small town of about 10,000 people in West Tennessee. It was founded and incorporated in 1823. Paris is in the geographic center of Henry County (which has 32,363 residents in 2021, including Paris[1]). The county is in the upper right corner of West Tennessee bordered by Kentucky (north) and the Tennessee River (east), and Paris, being in the center, is the county's legal and administrative seat. As is common in this region, the heart of the town and country is a "court square", a special city block on which stands an imposing court house. The current Henry County court house building dates from 1897[2].
Standing on the courthouse lawn is a statue of an anonymous confederate soldier[3].
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The indigenous people here before European settlers
How the early European settlers obtained deeds to the land
The pre-civil-war schools
The pre-civil-war economy
Slavery at the time of the civil war
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References
- ↑ Henry County, Tennessee Population 2021 on World Population Review, last access 1/27/2021
- ↑ Per the National Geographic Tennessee River Valley website (last access on 11/30/2020), the 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse in Paris is the oldest working judicial building in West Tennessee.
- ↑ Waymarking: Henry Co. Confederate Monument, Paris, TN, last access 1/17/2021
- ↑ Antebellum Henry County by Roger Raymond Van Dyke, West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 1947-2015, Vol 33, 49pp; see page (tbd)