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Hardeman County
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - US 64 at the Fayette-Hardeman County line in Tennessee
Photo
taken April 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Fayette
County
Established
1823: named in honor of Thomas Jones Hardeman.
Captain
in War of 1812; colonel of Tennessee militia in the fighting before
New Orleans; quartermaster, Jackson's Natchez
expedition,
1812. One of the commissioners who established Bolivar in
1825. Moving to Texas in 1830, he was prominent in
the
fight for independence; he later became a member of Congress of the
Republic.
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