Paris, Tennessee

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Paris, Tennessee (USA) is a small town of about 10,000 people in West Tennessee; it was incorporated in 1823. Paris is in the geographic center of Henry County (which encompasses 32,363 people as of 2021, including Paris[1]). Henry County is located in the upper right corner of West Tennessee bordered by Kentucky (north) and the Tennessee River (east).

Paris is the county seat for Henry County and its town center, like many towns in the region, is built around an imposing court house which is now more than a hundred years old[2]. Standing on the courthouse lawn is a statue which is a Confederate monument[3] targeted for consideration of removal by the InvisibleHate.org website.

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Henry County, TN, court house, Nov. 24, 2005
Confederate monument, dating from 1900, standing on the courthouse lawn in Paris, TN, as described by the Henry County Historical Society on it's Facebook page in 2020.
    
       
       
       

References

  1. ↑ Henry County, Tennessee Population 2021 on World Population Review, last access 1/27/2021
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Waymarking: Henry Co. Confederate Monument, Paris, TN, last access 1/17/2021
  4. ↑ Antebellum Henry County by Roger Raymond Van Dyke, West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 1947-2015, Vol 33, 49pp; see page (tbd)
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