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While processing the Harvey Proctor Collection, I came across this awesome picture (left) of past presidents of the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce that includes the years 1940 to 1974 . What is spec...  Read More

Happy Holidays!Welcome 2025! "Out with the old; in with the new."As the saying goes, a New Year is definitely a time to look ahead with anticipation.Off course, the Tennessee Room isn't so hasty to di...  Read More

On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States, a day President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “a date which will live in infamy.” In honor of World War ...  Read More

For sale at the library for $20.00(cash or check only)Proceeds support the Friends of the Library From 2016:"What better way to start the new year than with a new book!  The new pictorial history enti...  Read More

Arlie M. Pounds, a former Tennessee Room assistant, celebrated his 90th birthday on January 25, 2012, with a small ceremony hosted at the Jackson-Madison County Library. Although he is no longer with ...  Read More

The Rise and Fall of Marathon Motor Worksby D. Phillip Kaiser and Diane Kurek Kaiser This exciting new addition to the Tennessee Room is the first book of a projected trilogy concerning the automobile...  Read More

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Tradeby David Eltis & David RichardsonThis atlas includes 189 maps, many illustrations, a timeline of the slave trade,and a glossary of terminology, along with an auth...  Read More

The Tigretts of West Tennessee and Their Familiesby Gwendolyn McCaffrey McReynolds When spurred by a passing remark made by her grandmother, Grace Truman Edwards Loggins, Gwendolyn McReynolds embarked...  Read More

Hardin County Blue and Gray: Civil War Soldiers from Hardin County, Tennesseeby David B. Cagle,Ronney R. Brewington, editor With 11 ancestral connections who were active in the Civil War, David B. Cag...  Read More

John R. Long has compiled a book entitled More Than Names on A Wall. Building from the list of 167 names on the Madison County War Memorial monument at Liberty Gardens Park in north Jackson, and addin...  Read More

Just the other day, a Boy Scout visited the Tennessee Room with a sheet of questions to ask, all centered around the usage of indexes for genealogical research.  It is sometimes easy to take resource...  Read More