Places They Lived
The places our ancestors called home shaped their daily lives and family histories. Explore the towns, communities, and landscapes where they settled, worked, raised their families, and left their mark on history.
Marion County sits in the southeastern corner of Tennessee where the Sequatchie Valley runs between the Cumberland Plateau and the...
Before it became a battlefield, Ninety Six was simply a place where roads met. The settlement had grown up in...
DeKalb County did not exist until 1836. The land that became it had been there all along, of course, forested...
Oregon County sits in the southernmost corner of Missouri, pressed against the Arkansas border in a stretch of Ozark hill...
Oregon County in the decades after its 1845 establishment was the kind of place that required something specific from the...
Before 1883, the land along the Spring River in Sharp County, Arkansas, had no town on it. A few families...
Sharp County was created on July 18, 1868, carved out of the northern portion of Lawrence County during the Reconstruction...