History of Chester County Tennessee United States of America

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Chester County History

Chester County was erected on March 1, 1879, from fractions of Madison, Henderson, McNairy and Hardeman counties, and named in honor of Col. Robt. I. Chester.34 On March 19, 1875, a new county named Wisdom County had been erected out of the same fractions and this act was repealed by the act which created Chester County.

The early history of Chester County is the history of the counties out of which it was formed.

Statistics of Chester County: Population, 1920, 9,669. Assessed valuation of taxable property, 1921, $3,998,171. Area, 288 square miles. Number of farms, 1,667. Railway mileage, 16. This county is on the highlands of West Tennessee and is drained by the Forked Deer River and intersected by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. The soil is sandy and fertile. Cotton is the leading staple, but other crops are profitably grown. Henderson, the county seat, is on the M. & O. Railroad, and has a population of 1,181. It has a weekly newspaper, good schools and churches, three banks, manufacturing establishments and stores. Scholastic population of county, 3,339; high schools, 2; elementary schools, 42.

From: Moore, John Trotwood. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923. Vol. 1. Chicago, IL, USA: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.

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