• Source: Timeline of Perry County, Tennessee history

      • This article is a timeline of Perry County, Tennessee history.


      19th century




      = 1800s

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      1806 January 7 – Cherokee cede the land that would later become Perry County to the United States in the Treaty of Washington.


      = 1810s

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      c.1810-1812 – The first gristmill in the area is established on Cane Creek.: 58 
      1818 – The first known person of European descent in the area that would become Perry County is born.
      1819 – Perry County is established by the Tennessee General Assembly.


      = 1820s

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      1820 – The first court in the county is held in a house on Toms Creek.
      1821 – The county seat is established in Perryville.
      1825 – A county militia is formed as the 68th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Tennessee Militia.


      = 1830s

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      1830 – The village of Beardstown is established.
      1832-1834 – The Cedar Grove Iron Furnace is constructed.


      = 1840s

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      1843 July 10 – The courthouse at Perryville burns.
      1845 November – Decatur County is formed from the portion of Perry County west of the Tennessee River, the county seat is moved to a village near the new geographic center of the county.
      1848 – The town of Linden is established as the county seat.


      = 1850s

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      1850 – Harper's Statistical Gazetteer reports 10 grist mills, a saw mill, a furnace, two tanneries, 21 churches, and 23 schools enrolling 685 students in the county.
      1854 – Lobelville is established.
      1856 Spring – Between 10 and 15 enslaved Black people are murdered by vigilantes following allegations of the plotting of a slave revolt.


      = 1860s

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      1861 June – Perry County votes in favor of secession.
      1862 February – Cedar Grove Iron Furnace is destroyed by naval gunfire from a flotilla of Union gunboats.
      1862 April 27 – The body of Governor Louis P. Harvey of Wisconsin is found on the banks of the Tennessee River.
      1863 May 12 – Union cavalry forces land on the east bank of the Tennessee River and conduct a raid on Linden, burning the courthouse and capturing Confederate personnel and equipment.
      1864 September 27–30 – Confederate and Union forces skirmish near Lobelville and Beardstown.
      1865 April – Martial law is lifted and civil courts resume following the Civil War.
      1868 – A new courthouse is constructed in Linden to replace the one destroyed during the war.
      1869 – Two Black men are removed from the local jail by a mob and lynched.


      = 1870s

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      1871 – The Craig Farm is established on Lick Creek.


      = 1880s

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      1880-1884 – The first regular newspaper is published in the county.: 40–42 


      = 1890s

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      1890 – The first known bank in the county, Linden Bank and Trust, is established.: 109–110 
      1897 – Thetus W. Sims, a Linden lawyer, is elected to the United States House of Representatives.


      20th century




      = 1900s

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      1900 – Bell Telephone Company establishes the first telephone service in the county.
      1907 Summer – Due to a legislative error, Perry County is briefly left without a county government.
      1907 – Linden-born professional baseball player Clyde Milan plays his first season with the Washington Senators.


      = 1910s

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      1910 – The population of the county peaks at 8,815.
      1917 May 27 – A tornado strikes the county, killing five and injuring 67.


      = 1920s

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      1928 January – The courthouse burns while undergoing renovations. A new, larger building is built on the same site that year.


      = 1930s

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      1930 July 5 – Governor Henry Horton opens the first bridge across the Tennessee River in the county. The bridge, named after Alvin C. York, connects the Nashville-Memphis Highway between Linden and Perryville.


      = 1940s

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      1941-1944 – Perry County is included in the area covered by the Tennessee Maneuver Area during World War 2, though the extent of training activity in the county is unclear.
      1944 – Kentucky Dam is completed, impounding Kentucky Lake and inundating small portions of county along the Tennessee River.
      1949 – The Tennessee Game and Fish Commission begins a whitetail deer reintroduction program in the county.


      = 1950s

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      1955 – Linden High School begins a three-year winning streak at the state high school boys' basketball championships.
      1957 – The movie Natchez Trace is filmed in the county.
      1958 – Interstate 40 opens, bypassing the county. Larger businesses begin to leave, setting the stage for long term economic stagnation.


      = 1960s

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      1962 – Perry County Airport opens near Linden.
      1967 January – Site studies begin for a new State Park on the banks of the Tennessee River in the county.


      = 1970s

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      1971 – An Old Order Mennonite community is established near Lobelville.
      1979 – Construction begins on Mousetail Landing State Park.


      = 1980s

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      1986 – The Alvin C. York Bridge across the Tennessee River is demolished and replaced by a modern structure.


      = 1990s

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      1992 – The county is featured in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries examining the case of a man who went missing in the area in 1985.


      21st century




      = 2000s

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      2009 – Unemployment figures reach 29%, the second-highest unemployment rate of any county in the United States.


      = 2010s

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      2011 – Unemployment lowers to 14% following a subsidized employment program.


      = 2020s

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      2020 April – Unemployment peaks again at 24% during the COVID-19 pandemic.
      2020 November – The county's sole hospital closes.


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