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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Persia, Tennessee
- ↑ "Hawkins County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R.L. Polk & Company. 1876. p. 335.
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