BOOK NOTES:  Some books which might be of general interest to students of the "Early Republic" period -- If you find any worth purchasing after following one of these links, a portion will go to support of this web site: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough a "story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work." The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs.  From book description: "For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving.  But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.

United States Geography in the Early Republic - TENNESSEE

Tennessee

Towns and Cities of Tennessee

Adamsville

Alamo

Alcoa

Ashland City

Athens

Atwood

Nearden

Belle Meade

Bells

Bemis

Berry Hill

Bluff City

Bogota

Bolivar

Briceville

Bristol

Brownsville

Bruceton

Camden

Carthage

Home of Robert Allen from 1804, Congressman (1819-27) until his death in 1844.

Caryville

Celina

Centerville

Chattanooga

Church Hill

Clairfield

Clarksville

Cleveland

Clinton

Collegedale

Collierville

Columbia

Cookeville

Corryton

Covington

Cowan

Crossville

Cypress In

Daisy

Dayton

Decherd

Diana

Donelson

Dresden

Ducktown

Dyer

Dyersburg

East Ridge

Elizabethton

Embreeville

Englewood

Erwin

Etowah

Fayetteville

Finley

Fountain City

Franklin

08/23/1830 - Andrew Jackson confronts a Chickasaw Indian delegation ... in Franklin, TN which is also the home of Secretary of War John Eaton, and gives them an ultimatum to move to new territories across the Mississippi. (Source: Remini, Jackson, vol 2, p270)

Gallatin

Location of the John Allen estate, Allenwood, where Sam Houston married Allen's daughter Eliza on 1/22/29. (Source: Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto, p97)

Gatlinburg

Gleason

Goodlettsville

Greenback

Greeneville

Greenfield

Halls

Hampton

Harriman

Hartsville

Henderson

Hendersonville

Highland Park

Hixon

Hohenwald

Humboldt

Huntingdon

Huntsville

Inskip

Jacksboro

Jackson

Jamestown

Jasper

Jefferson City

Jellico

Joelton

Johnson City

Jonesboro

Kenton

Kingsport

Kingston

Knoxville

Kodak

La Folette

Lafayette

Lake City

Lawrenceburg

Lebanon

About 30 miles south of Nashville, and equal distance from Murfreesboro. Sam Houston had his first law office there -- "in a small log building just off the main square" in 1819. (Source: Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto, p63,64)

Lenoir City

Lewisburg

Lexington

Livingston

Lookout Mountain

Loudon

Lupton City

Madison

Madisonville

Manchester

Martin

Maryville

About 10 miles north of where Sam Houston's mother and sons settled (about 1808), on Bakers Creek. On the Tennessee River, in a mountainous area just west of the NC border.

Mascot

McKenzie

McMinnville

Memphis

At the very southwestern corner of the state - the largest Tennessee city on the Mississippi. Home of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Milan

Millington

Monterey

Morristown

Mount Pleasant

Mountain City

Murfreesboro

For a time was the state capitol -- some time around 1820, at least; also the headquarters of the militioa. (Source: Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto, p64)

Nashoba

The community established by Frances Wright in 1826 (promoted and land purchased late in 1825) to try to reeducate slaves for freedom, after which they would be colonized to Haiti.

On the Wolf River (whose Chickasaw name was Nashoba), 15 miles east of Memphis.

(This entry is not meant to imply that the site continued as any sort of community after Wright abandoned the effort).

Nashville

Home of Andrew Jackson (who lived on the outskirts at a plantation called the Hermitage). On the Cumberland R., just west of the center line of the state.

Neubert

New Providence

New Tazewell

Newbern

Newport

Niota

Norris

Oak Ridge

Oakley

Oakville

Obion

Old Hickory

Olive Springs

Oneida

Paris

Parsons

Pigeon Forge

Portland

Pulaski

Raleigh

Red Boiling SPrings

Ridgely

Ripley

Roan Mountain

Robbins

Rockford

Rockwood

Rogersville

Savannah

Selmer

Sevierville

Sewanee

Shady Valley

Shelbyville

Shepherd

Signal Mountain

Smithville

Smyrna

Soddy

Somerville

S. Fulton

S. Harriman

S. Pittsburg

Sparta

Spring City

Springfield

Sweetwater

Tazewell

Tiptonville

Tracy City

Trenton

Tullahoma

Tyner

Unicoi

Union City

Waverly

Waynesboro

Western State Hospital

Westmoreland

Whitehaven

Whitwell

Winchester

Woodbury

Counties of Tennessee

Anderson

Bedford

Benton

Bledsoe

Blount

Bradley

Campbell

Cannon

Carroll

Carter

Cheatham

Chester

Claiborne

Clay

Cocke

Coffee

Crockett

Cumberland

Davidson

De Kalb

Decatur

Dickson

Dyer

Fayette

Fentress

Franklin

Gibson

Giles

Grainger

Greene

Grundy

Hamblen

Hamilton

Hancock

Hardeman

Hardin

Hawkins

Haywood

Henderson

Henry

Houston

Humphreys

Jackson

Jefferson

Johnson

Knox

Lake

Lauderdale

Lawrence

Lewis

Lincoln

Loudon

Macon

Madison

Marion

Marshall

Maury

McMinn

McNairy

Meigs

Monroe

Montgomery

Moore

Morgan

Obion

Overton

Perry

Pickett

Polk

Putnam

Rhea

Roane

Robertson

Rutherford

Scott

Sequatchie

Sevier

Shelby

Smith

Stewart

Sullivan

Sumner

Tipton

Trousdale

Unicoi

Union

Van Buren

Warren

Washington

Wayne

Weakley

White

Williamson

Wilson

Rivers, Lakes, etc. of Tennessee

Cumberland River

Runs just below the northern border of the state, like a smaller concentric arc enclosed within that of the Tennessee R. It begins in KY, entering KY at about the middle of its northern border, flows mostly west, past Carthage, Gallatin and Nashville, and back into KY, where it roughly parallels the Tenn. R. until it empties into the Mississippi.

Mississippi River

Western boundary of TN. Memphis, TN is on it, in the southwestern corner of the state.

Tennessee River

Starts out in east TN, about Knoxville; runs to the southwest where it dips down into Alabama. It recrosses the border back into TN, about 100 miles west of where it enters Alabama, and runs more or less straight north across the state.

Wolf River

A small river feeding into the Mississippi at Memphis (see Nashoba).