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Haywood County, TennesseeHaywood County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameNamed in honor of John Haywood (1762-1826), North Carolina Superior Court and Tennessee Supreme Court judge, author of Civil & Political History of Tennessee, "father of Tennessee history." Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts History of Haywood CountyCreated 1823 from Indian lands; named in honor of John Haywood (1762-1826), North Carolina Superior Court and Tennessee Supreme Court judge, author of Civil & Political History of Tennessee, "father of Tennessee history." Haywood County was formed in 1823 from Indian lands. (Acts of Tennessee 1823, Chapter 145). Named for Judge John Haywood, Haywood County was part of Madison County when the Tennessee General Assembly
created it in 1823-24. Later, part of Haywood County was taken to create Lauderdale and Crockett Counties. The state
legislature designated Brownsville as the county seat, and in 1823 Thomas M. Johnson sold the county fifty acres of
land for the county seat for one dollar and a town lot. The county court met in the home of Richard Nixon, the first
settler in the area, until 1825, when the first log courthouse was completed. A second courthouse was built in 1826;
in 1845 it was rebuilt with brick. In 1868 the county added a west wing to accommodate the convening of the Supreme
Court for West Tennessee. The courthouse underwent complete renovation in 1989. The first jail was built in 1825; in
1872 it was replaced with a brick and iron jail. In 1974 a new jail was located four miles east of Brownsville. Find more from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: HAYWOOD COUNTY GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 534 square miles (1,383 kmē), of which, 533
square miles (1,381 kmē) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 kmē) of it (0.18%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."  |
