• Start with a City beginning with A
    • This is BY STATE
    • Similar to the Tag contest, there will be one thread per state
    • Post a picture of your bike AND some sign, building etc which clearly shows the city/state you're in
    • The next person posts from a city with the name beginning with B, then C, D, etc
    • You can't posts back-to-back pics, you have to wait for a person to post the next city
    • Once Z is reached, the game starts over with A
    • If your state doesn't have a city beginning with the next letter in sequence, it's okay to skip that letter
    • If the location sits for more than one month, the person that posted that is open to move it to the next letter.

    The World Wide game is a bit different as it is by whatever is considered a geographic type of regional category, state/province/village etc. and all those will be in the single World Wide A-Z topic.

TN: A to Z (Round 7)

Orlinda For O -
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A little bit of history -

Orlinda was incorporated in 1965, and was originally called Crockers Crossroads until they had to change the name due to the area's proximity to Tuckers Crossroads, Tennessee. The name Centerville was proposed, but denied as a Centerville, Tennessee already existed, so Orlinda was proposed as no other community in the United States used that name.
 
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West Union For W -
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I can find no history at all on this one.
Not much there but the church and an old cemetery.
Some notes on the church which appears to have been started in 1849 -

Revd. D. P. Coffey offered the following, which was adopted,
Whereas there has been a congregation organized north of Big Creek Shelby County Tenn. known as West Union congregation,
Resolved that Presbytery recognize said congregation and receive it under her care.

Revd. I. S. Pickens offered the following which was adopted,
Whereas the Raleigh congregation has been so diminished by removals or otherwise,
Resolved therefore that said congregation be dissolved and the remaining members east of Raleigh be attached to the Green Bottom congregation, and all in Raleigh and west be attached to the Memphis congregation, and all the members north of Loose Hatchy [Loosahatchie] be attached to the West Union congregation.

[Source: Minutes of Memphis Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 1849, page 161-162.]

Interesting side note - The Cumberland Presbyterians were started 20 miles due west of where I live in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park.
 
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Zion For Z -
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And what the marker says -

About 1 mile south, in 1807, a Presbyterian colony from South Carolina built a log meeting house
and established a community around it. A school soon followed. A brick church was built in 1815,
the present structure in 1847. Many descendants of the founders are in the present congregation.

Nothing there much today but the church and the school -
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One of the interesting things is my favorite writer about the Civil War that he experienced
attended the church and is buried in the cemetery. His name was Sam Watkins -

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If you want a really good read about the civil war from a foot soldier's perspective, read his -

Company Aytch: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War: Watkins, Samuel R., Inge, M. Thomas: 9780452281240: Amazon.com: Books

It was put together from a series of newspaper columns he wrote in the local Columbia paper some years after the war.
His unit and my great great grandfather's unit fought in a lot of the same battles -

Uncle Phil - History 2019
 
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