Paris, Tennessee/External Links

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Current

• City of Paris, Tennessee government, last access 4/28/2021
• Henry County, Tennessee government, last access 4/28/2021
• Henry County roads, online PDF from Tn. Department of Transportation, last access 4/28/2021
• Henry County, Tennessee Population 2021 on World Population Review, last access 1/27/2021
• Henry Co., TN, Population Data Profile, last access 2/15/2021
• W. G. Rhea Public Library, Paris, TN

Historical

Scholarly journals

• Antebellum Henry County by Roger Raymond Van Dyke, West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 1947-2015, Vol 33, 49pp, last access 1/25/2021

Newspapers and media

• PARIS, TN: Former Lee school building gets name change from The Paris Post-Intelligencer 8-28-2020, last access 1-25-2021
• Black History Month: Gray to Speak (to DAR) about Local (School) Integration (in Paris, TN) from Radio NWTN website 2-20-2020, last access 1-25-2021

Other

• Henry County on Collaborative Genealogy and History - The map here shows how the southeast border of the county used to be the Big Sandy river, before TVA rerouted that river in the 1930's, turning it into a straight-cut ditch instead of the meandering river it had been before. Compare the county's SE border with the current route of the Big Sandy river.

School history, desegregation and consolidation

• African-American High Schools Now Long Gone, in The Tennessee Magazine (online), last access July 4, 2021.
• Paris TN: Former Central High School building demolished on Rison St , in The Paris Post-Intelligencer (online) from Jun 16, 2010 Updated Feb 16, 2014; last access 7/4/2021.
• 1969: Henry County High School era begins: Effort to build school was tough four-year battle, in The Paris Post-Intelligencer (online) from Aug 27, 2009; last access 7/4/2021. NOTE from Pat Palmer: Nowhere in this article is the issue of school desegregation mentioned, but as I recall from discussions all over town in my childhood, the soon-to-be-mandated desegration of all schools was the primary issue which drove this effort. Had the county not consolidated all schools into one high school in the center, the county would have faced legally mandated busing. As I recall it, a majority of white people preferred building a brand new school which would include all the black kids rather than possibly face needing to send their own kids to a formerly all-black school, which everyone believed (most likely wrongly) to be inferior but which definitely had less funding available to it. The building of the new high school, which opened in 1970, avoided the need for racially motivated busing, but required all students from outer areas to be transported to the center of the county each day for high school--all without regard to race.

Slavery

• Slaves in Henry County, TN with names of owners from wills 1848-1864 from the Message Boards on Ancestry.com, posted 09 Dec 2007 10:48 PM. A user (now anonymous) did this research and posted it; the information could be verified for someone with online access to the wills, or who owned some of the books about wills which have been published. In a comment, this user claims to have scraped this information from books.