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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

History of Lafayette, Tennessee

 A quick history of my little town.

VIDEO HERE  (22 minutes)

13 comments:

  1. That was fun. Thanks. I sure wish it was my little town.
    That sure is a big, beautiful tree next to the courthouse.

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    1. My favorite part was "Down there at Union Camp Road and Brown's Lane where that new house is....." like everybody in the viewing area knows that a new house is going up.

      At least now you know how Lafayette is pronounced, although I heard him say it 3-4 different ways. I pronounce with a hard A in the second syllable, but a lot of folks just say Lefette.

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    2. With a hard A in the second syllable, emphasis on. That's my favorite way to say it.

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    3. BTW, just looking at the courthouse makes me wish I was walking up those steps on my way to get my new Tennessee plates, after which the clerk says "Thank you, Honey". To which I reply with a smile.
      Sigh.

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    4. That's Amy, at the county clerk's office, to a T.

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  2. The little town i live near not in though was incorporated another two hundred years earlier. I love learning the history of small towns.
    Klaus

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    1. To be honest, Lafayette is such a small sleepy ag town, there's not a lot of history that an outsider would be interested in. There's not even much Civil War history with only 2 very small skirmishes in all of Macon County.

      The area I came from in California had zero written history until the 1840s. There was the odd expedition before that, maybe one or two, but other than that, nothing. But once the Gold Rush hit, the area just exploded. A man could spent a lifetime researching one decent sized gold camp and still never learn everything about it.

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    2. Kenny, you mean no reference to the murderous Joaquin Murrietta in that section in and around Modesto?

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    3. The gold camp I live in seceded from the Union in April of 1850 over the mining tax, then two months later celebrated the Fourth of July by getting drunk and rejoining the Union again.

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  3. The Marquis was age 19 when he pitched in during the Revolution.

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  4. Amy sounds like our county clerk. Humphreys Co. is very much like Macon Co. We had some fighting going on though. The battle of Johnsonville is where Nathan Forrest wiped out a Union supply depot and millions of $ of supply's on the Tennessee river. Only battle in history where an army unit defeated a naval unit. The rebels destroyed 28 ships, gun boats and barges.
    Oh yeah, Jesse James got a farm here and lived here for 3-4 years.

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  5. Looking at Zillow I could sell my condo here in Honolulu & get a brand new house in Lafeyette & have 100K left over for 'Tennessee Toys' like an ATV, all kinds of new firearms & so many dogs that my neighbors would be pissed. Oh & lots of chickens..

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