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Haywood County, Tennessee

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
18historic places
—earliest paper
1824formed
17,864pop. 2020
58cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 18 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Brownsville, Stanton, Nutbush.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Tennessee is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Haywood titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 18 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

18 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Brownsville Carnegie LibraryBrownsvilleBuilding2018
College Hill Historic DistrictBrownsvilleDistrict1980
College Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)BrownsvilleDistrict2015
Dancyville United Methodist Church and CemeteryDancyvilleDistrict1991
Dunbar-Carver Historic DistrictBrownsvilleDistrict2015
Esso Filling StationBrownsvilleBuilding2024
Haywood County Farm and CemeteryBrownsvilleDistrict2025
Hutchison, Joshua K., HouseBrownsvilleBuilding1988
Jefferson Street Historic DistrictBrownsvilleDistrict2016
North Washington Historic DistrictBrownsvilleDistrict2015
Republican Primitive Baptist ChurchBrownsvilleBuilding2000
Stanton Masonic Lodge and SchoolStantonBuilding1987
Stanton SchoolStantonBuilding2020
Temple Adas IsraelBrownsvilleBuilding1979
Woodland Baptist ChurchWoodlandBuilding2003
Woodlawn Baptist ChurchNutbushBuilding2024
Woodlawn Baptist Church and CemeteryNutbushBuilding1996
Zion ChurchBrownsvilleBuilding1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Haywood was formed in 1824 (1824-01-01) from unknown / original county.

HAYWOOD created from all of Non-County Area 12 attached to MADISON; Non-County Area 12 eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Haywood County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

28k17k5,33418301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,33413,87019,23226,05325,18925,38627,69926,21223,39320,31819,79717,864

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

58 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 58 of 58 listed
NameLatLon
Beech Grove Cemetery35.54229-89.20367
Brown Creek Cemetery35.56285-89.09562
Chestnut Grove Cemetery35.59535-89.15339
Chote Cemetery35.45975-89.39404
Cliff Cemetery35.54285-89.15145
Cobb Cemetery35.63146-89.15867
Cole Cemetery35.41896-89.38784
Collier Cemeteries35.41702-89.44582
Currie Cemetery35.55229-89.10812
Currie Cemetery35.5584-89.12006
Dancyville Cemetery35.40502-89.29453
Dancyville Cemetery35.4048-89.29479
Drake Cemetery35.58479-89.11339
Estes Cemetery35.61368-89.46507
Eureka Cemetery35.77451-89.38451
Forrest Cemetery35.53146-89.07923
Forrest Cemetery35.55146-89.07534
Green Leaf Cemetery35.44091-89.4634
Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery35.44351-89.22941
Harris Cemetery35.59087-89.34453
Haywood County Memorial Gardens35.59174-89.21867
Hess Cemetery35.65174-89.22756
Hickory Grove Cemetery35.68257-89.29368
Israel Cemetery35.60368-89.25034
Knights of Pythias Cemetery35.59924-89.2484
Lebanon Cemetery35.61146-89.35868
Macedonia Mercer Cemetery35.55368-89.42923
Magnolia Cemetery35.59396-89.24506
Mount Pleasant Cemetery35.45146-89.16923
Norvell Cemetery35.54063-89.09395
Oakwood Cemetery35.59099-89.2682
Outlaw Cemetery35.54285-89.37729
Powell Cemetery35.62479-89.10839
Prospect Cemetery35.4537-89.27558
Prospect Cemetery35.56285-89.32368
Richards Cemetery35.59368-89.23478
Rosenwald Cemetery35.5919-89.25011
Saint John Missionary Baptist Cemetery35.43949-89.28629
Saint Paul Cemetery35.53285-89.24978
Saint Peters Cemetery35.63171-89.38736
Salem Cemetery35.55479-89.18701
Scratchunder Cemetery35.49896-89.29395
Shaws Chapel Cemetery35.72201-89.33673
Spring Hill Cemetery35.70646-89.44229
Spring Hill United Methodist Cemetery35.45079-89.27251
Tabernacle Cemetery35.65451-89.20756
Taylor Cemetery35.65257-89.20284
Trinity Cemetery35.69063-89.4084
Turnpike Family Memorial Garden35.57995-89.45108
Union Cemetery35.56868-89.12117
Walker Cemetery35.5209-89.11839
Walker Cemetery35.61785-89.43285
Wesley Cemetery35.47142-89.41824
Woodlawn Cemetery35.65368-89.36423
Woodville Cemetery35.76313-89.43285
Wortham Chapel Cemetery35.71562-89.16006
Zion Cemetery35.61368-89.16728
Zion Cemetery35.7034-89.24423
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Estanaula35.4598-89.09173

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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