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PERRY
County Seat: Linden Maps are interesting things; the thing to remember about maps is that they sometimes have mistakes. As you can see from this 1831 map, Perry County once included land on the east and west sides of the Tennessee River. But in spite of what this map seems to indicate, the county seat of Perry County was never Barrysville, on the east side of the river, but Perryville, on the west side of the river. In 1846 the part of Perry County west of the river was turned into a separate county called Decatur County. The county seat of Perry County ended up at a place called Linden, which as you can see here, is in the middle of what we now call Perry County.
By the way, Perryville had an interesting history. It was an important stop on the Tennesee River, and among the famous Tennesseans who visited Perryville were Andrew Jackson, David Crockett, James K. Polk and Sam Houston. Unfortunately, the Perryville that they would have remembered is gone now, flooded when the Tennessee Valley Authority built Kentucky Dam. Here's another story about Perry County that illustrates just what a big deal the Civil War was. In 1860 there were about 5,400 people living in
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All photographs taken by Bill Carey for THKF unless otherwise stated.
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