Calloway County was created out of Hickman County in 1822 and named for Col. Richard Calloway who came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone about 1776.  Calloway was one of the founders of Boonesboro and was killed there by Indians in 1780. Calloway County is bounded on the north by Marshall County, on the east by the Tennessee River, on the south by the Tennessee/Kentucky border and on the west by Graves County.  When created, its northern boundary was the Ohio River. As Calloway County grew, typhoid fever raged through the county, more severe in the warmer months.  The common house…

Henry County was created in 1821 and named for Revolutionary War statesman, Patrick Henry.   Paris, west Tennessee’s oldest incorporated municipality, has been its county seat since its creation. Henry County is bounded on the north by Graves and Calloway Counties in Kentucky, on the east by Stewart and Benton Counties in Tennessee, on the south by Carroll and Benton Counties and on the west by Weakley County. Henry County produced three (3) Tennessee governors: Isham Green Harris, Tennessee’s only Confederate Governor, elected in 1859; James Davis Porter, elected in 1874 (served two terms); and Thomas Clarke Rye, elected 1915. In…