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- ↑ "Chapter XIX" Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the Forty-Second General Assembly. 1881. Nashville: Tavel & Howell, Printers To The State, 1881; vol. 2, p. 20
- ↑ Eighteenth Congress, Session II, Chap. XLVI.—An Act to establish certain post-roads, and to discontinue others. March 3, 1825
- ↑ "Hardin County". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture online
- ↑ History of Tennessee : From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Henderson, Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1886. pp. 829-841
- ↑ "Tennessee: Old Town - Tennessee" Satelliteviews.net accessed November 9, 2010
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