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Dyersburg Tennessee & Dyer County Area History

One Of The 50 Best Small Southern Towns!
A Very Special Place Amid Mississippi River Delta In The Reelfoot Lake Region

The state area west of the Tennessee River was not opened for settlement until long after Tennessee became a flourishing and wealthy state. The lands in this section were originally owned by the Chickasaw Indian tribe. The final treaty by which the Indians relinquished all of west Tennessee was signed in 1818.
    

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In 1823, the General Assembly of Tennessee passed an act to establish two new counties west of the Tennessee River with Dyer County being one of them.
  
The county was named for Robert Henry Dyer, state senator and officer in the War of 1812. In the early 1820s, settler Joel H. Dyer purchased 640 acres and founded a town along the Forked Deer River.
   
By 1825, the community of Dyersburg was formed. It has served as the county seat ever since.  
 
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