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Its county seat is Dresden. [3] Its largest city is Martin, the home of the University of Tennessee at Martin. The county was established by the Tennessee General Assembly on October 21, 1823, and is named for U.S. Congressman Robert Weakley (1764–1845). Weakley County comprises the Martin, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Dresden is located at (36.283805, -88.698296 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 5.3 square miles (14 km 2 ), of which 5.3 square miles (14 km 2 ) is land and 0.19% is water.
On February 13, 1801, in the famous "Midnight Judges" Act of 1801, 2 Stat. 89, Congress abolished the U.S. district court in Tennessee, [2] and expanded the number of circuits to six, provided for independent circuit court judgeships, and abolished the necessity of Supreme Court Justices riding the circuits. It was this legislation which ...
As the only significant town between Dresden and Union City, it was a business center for western Weakley County. It became an incorporated municipality in 1869, with lawyer William Parker Caldwell serving as its first mayor. [ 2 ]
State Route 118 (SR 118) is a 14.81-mile-long (23.83 km) north–south state highway in Weakley County, Tennessee. It connects the town of Dresden with the communities of Latham, Dukedom, and the state of Kentucky.
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