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The Meigs County Historical Museum is located on Smith Avenue in Decatur, Tennessee and is owned and operated by the Meigs County Historical Society. [1] The groundbreaking for this new site was in July 2002. [2] [3] [4] The museum houses many county court and family records. On permanent display is a mural depicting Main Street in Decatur in ...
A grandson, Return J. Meigs IV, married Jennie Ross, daughter of principal Cherokee chief John Ross. They emigrated with her father to Indian Territory in 1838, forced out on the Trail of Tears. [10] Two Tennessee place names honor Meigs: Meigs County, which was formed in 1836 from part of Rhea County, and Meigs Mountain in the Great Smoky ...
The main geographic feature of Meigs County is the Tennessee River, which forms the county's western boundary. Watts Bar Dam is located along the river between Meigs and adjacent Rhea County. Above it is the manmade Watts Bar Lake , which spans the river upstream to Fort Loudoun Dam just west of Knoxville .
The body of a missing Meigs County, Tennessee, sheriff's deputy has been found, officials said Thursday, hours after his patrol vehicle was pulled from the Tennessee River with the body of another ...
Elisha Sharp was a large landowner and one of six original county commissioners of Meigs County. [4] In 1836, Sharp served as a second lieutenant within the first division of the East Tennessee guard under Brigadier General John E. Wool. Assembled to battle against the Cherokee Nation, the units were sent home in November 1836, since some sort ...
Location of Meigs County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meigs County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meigs County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Return J. Meigs Jr. did not have a direct male heir, but two of his younger brothers, John and Timothy, each named a son Return Jonathan Meigs. The first of these—called Return J. Meigs III [ Wikidata ] —passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky , commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee , and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs ...
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