Fayette County: Bibliography

•  Fayette County Archives 
•  James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University 
•  Tennessee State Library and Archives 

•  Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal  (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
•  HathiTrust Digital Library 
•  Southern Places Digital Collection , Middle Tennessee State University
•  Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) , Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)

• Census records (Ancestry.com)
• Death records (TSLA microfilm)
• Deeds (TSLA microfilm)

•  Fayette County, Tenn., T.E.R.A. no. 24, rural electrification, 1935  (TSLA)
•  Fayette County, Tennessee, 1923  (TSLA)
•  Key map of the Lespedeza Farm near Hickory Valley, Tenn. and of the Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn.  (courtesy of Ames Plantation, in Places, Perspectives digital collection)
•  Map of Fayette County, 1937  (TSLA)
•  Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Somerville, Tennessee  (Library of Congress)
•  Tennessee Historical Commission Historic Resource Survey Properties Map  
•  Tennessee Schools Digital Collection: Maury Co. maps, 1935-1936  (MTSU)
•  Historical Topo Map Explorer  (U.S. Geological Survey)

•  Fayette Falcon  (Chronicling America, Library of Congress)
•  The Nashville Globe  (Chronicling America, Library of Congress)

African American Baptist Annual Reports: Tennessee/Oklahoma. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1997-1998. Microfilm.

 American Religious Ecologies . Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2018–.  http://religiousecologies.org .

Annual Narrative & Statistical Reports from State Offices and County Agents. Tennessee, 1910-1944. Microfilm. Washington: Photographed by General Services Administration, Region 3, Records Management Service, 1951.

 The Broadcaster : Official Publication of the Tennessee Education Congress. Nashville, Tennessee : Tennessee Education Congress. Black Teacher Archive.  https://listview.lib.harvard.edu/lists/drs-495542522 

Directory of Negro Baptist Churches In United States. Vol. 2.. Chicago, Ill.: Illinois Historical records survey, Illinois Public records project, 1942.  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001593303  

Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card Database. Nashville, TN: Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia Franklin Library Special Collections, 2001- . An updated version of this valuable online resource is forthcoming.

 Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources: Fayette County . Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Morton, Dorothy Rich. Fayette County. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1989.