CCGHS PROJECT: STUDYING CALLOWAY COUNTY COMMUNITIES

Subjects: Lynn Grove/Swann; Hazel; New Concord; Faxon/Liberty; Almo-

Dexter/Wadesboro; Kirksey/Brinkley; Murray.

NEW CONCORD

I. History Timeline: Before 1822; Antebellum, 1822-1860; Civil War, 1860-

1865; Reconstruction to End of Century, 1865-1899; Twentieth Century A: War and
Depression, 1900-1939; Twentieth Century B: War, Space, and Technology, 1940-
1999; Twenty-first Century: New Challenges, 2000- .

II. Towns, Villages, Crossroads, Post Offices in the Community.

New Concord, New Hope, New Providence, Cherry Corner, Macedonia,

Hymon, Knight, Pine Bluff, Hamlin, Pottertown, Brandon’s Mill.

III. Community Origins.

Kentucky East, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia. Elsewhere.

Many families came from Piedmont North Carolina, with stopovers in

Tennessee—Stubblefield, Coleman, Hamlin, McCuiston families. Wilson
family from Tennessee.

African Americans in the Community.

IV. Community Leaders, Male and Female.

Peter McNess Rowlett, tobacco manufacturer/factor. William Hamlin,

state legislator. Joseph Spilsby Waters, educator. Marquis P. Wilson, M.D., doctor.
Otis Lovins, educator and state legislator. Eliza Montgomery Meador, matriarch and
early horticulturist. Juna Hendon Wilson, educator. Gordon Wilson, educator. Ivan
Wilson, artist and educator.

V. Agriculture in the Community.

Tobacco, cotton, corn, wheat, hay, sorghum.

VI. Commerce in the Community.

Tobacco manufacturing. Iron production—one furnace recorded.

Lumbering. Tennessee River Commerce. Milling—Brandon’s Mill.
 VII. Education in the Community.

One-and two-room schools. New Concord High School. New Concord

Junior High School. East Calloway Elementary School.

VIII. Religion in the Community.

Surviving churches. Defunct churches. Well-known preachers.

Cemeteries: Active cemeteries; abandoned cemeteries; adjunct

cemeteries—Point Pleasant Cemetery and Bethel Cemetery, Henry County, TN.

IX. Health Care in the Community.

Doctors. Nurses. Midwives. Home remedies.

X. Social Life in the Community.

Regular events in the schools: pie suppers, ice cream suppers, fiddlers’
contests. Candidate speakings. Church singings. Dances/”Hurry-john parties.”

XI. Resources for Studying the Community.

Books like the Lynn Grove-Harris Grove history. Cemetery books.

Books of Bible records. Dr. Hughie Lawson’s scholarly article on Virginia and North
Carolina migration to Jackson Purchase. Jackson Purchase Bicentennial Publication.
Recollections of Calloway County (14 vols.) Personal/family picture collections.
PRIMARY MATERIALS.