Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-05-04
n. O. WALLACE,
Lincoln County,

Organization of the Cuthty-Ad'
yantages of Soil and Climates
Products of the Farm aud ShOI
Progress In Wealth and Inn
pfOvement--An Enviable FUi.
ture for Old Lincoln. 4raa
From the Nashville Union and American
OF all the counties in Middle
Tennessee there is no one that
can surpass in variety of wealth
and attractions the good old
county of Lincoln. The beauty
of the landscape, the delightful
alienation of hill and vale, and
swelling mountains clothed in
/ perennial verdure, and pellucid
streams gliding like threads of
silver down the valleys, and
vine-clad cottages surrounded
with groves of cedar, and oak,
and mulberry, and sugar tree,
presents to the traveller a scene
which for beauty, and freshness,
and variety is unsurpassed in
the State. To these charms of
nature are added the superior
attractions of noble and cuiti-
waited men and women, whose
kindness, and hospitality, and
Fgentle bearing are so marked
that we could not but appro4
pirate to ourselves on leaving
the sentiment of the Psalmist |:
If / forget thee, let my right
hand forget her cunning; If /
do not remember thee, let my
tongue cleaye to the roof of.
my mouth. s -
The county was cut off from
Bedford and organized in the
year 1910. Oliver Williams,
of Williamson county, qualified
the Justices Of the peace, and
Thos.H IL Benton, thena young
man OF twenty-eight, who had
removed with his mother to
Tennessee from North Carolina,
acted as clerk, pro TEN. At
this meeting, Brice NJ. Garner
was elcctedCounty Court Clerk,
andentered upon the duties of,
his office. Steps were immedi-
ately taken to build a temple of
justice, and Micajah and Will
liam McElroy, father and son,
became the contractors, Prior
to 1909, District Courts were
held, but during that year a law
was enacted by the Legislature
establishing our present system
of Circuit Courts. Thomas
Stewart was elected Judge Of
the Circuit Court of the Circuit
including Lincoln, upon the orr
ganization of the county, and
James Bright appointed Clerk.
The, first courts were held in q
house two miles west Of the
present county seat then owned
by a man named Greer. Ezeki-
el Norris, who removed from
Montgomery county about the
year 1906, bought two sections
of land, containing 1880 acres
at the junction of Norris Creek
with Elk river that had been ta-
ken up in the year 1877, under
an old North Carolina warrant.I
He having heard that Greer had
agreed to donate a small quan-l
tity of land for the county seat,
met the commissioners and pro-
posed to give one hundred acres
where the present town of Fay
etteville stands, if the commits
sioners would build the Court.
house upon it. This they readi-.
ly,agreed to do and accepted
Norris proposal, but Norris
having learned in the meanwhile
that he had been misinformed
as to Greer; he afterwards de-
manded compensation for the
hundred acres and was allowed
by the commissioners seven hum
dred dollars. This was then di-
vided into lots and sold and the
money appropriated to county
buildings. And thus began'the
pleasant town of -ssEa
FAYETTEVILLE
that stands on a considerable
elevation and commands a fine
view of the surrounding country.
The scenery is decidedly pictu-
rescue; the spurs of Elk Ridge
and Pea Ridge rise in solemn
grandeur like the parapets of
the Titans, and seen through the
gray mist of evening twilight
painted upon the sky resemble
the huge pillows Of a stormy
ocean. 'sslThe intervening val
leys, though which flow Elk
river and Norris creek are love7
Ily beyond description. The
luxuriant fields Of wheat and
grass, the stately residences
peeping out from o mass of
dense foliage, the snug cottages