Woodville, Tennessee

Woodville is an unincorporated community in Chester County, Tennessee.[1]

Geography

The community is situated on Tennessee State Route 225.

History

Woodville[2] is a community located along Tennessee State Route 225 and was originally part of McNairy County, but became part of Chester County when that county was formed. During the Civil War sentiment was divided in this area, as with other parts of Tennessee, between the Union and Confederacy. Fielding Hurst[3] formed a Union Cavalry Regiment from people in this area. This area has been referred to by some historians as The Hurst Nation.

gollark: The specific bizarre way it's arranged gives tons of power to a bunch of arbitrary regions, especially ones which are likely to vote either way.
gollark: Anyway, thing is, the electoral college is not actually a very good mechanism for giving rural areas more power, that just works as a pretext for it.
gollark: But not split proportionally *by area* or something.
gollark: It might make more sense split proportionally and not winner-takes-all, which I'm pretty sure is the case now.
gollark: That would be rebalancing it even more ridiculously arbitrarily.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodville, Tennessee
  2. http://tennessee.hometownlocator.com/tn/chester/woodville.cfm
  3. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1616

Chester County Tennessee History and Families 1882 - 1995, Copyright 1995 Chester County Historical Society

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