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Boundaries - Historical Notes

Tennessee Code Annotated
Tennessee Attorney General Opinions

The following is a summary of acts which authorized boundary changes for Haywood County.

  1. Acts of 1837-38, Chapter 256, Section 1, appointed Abel H. Pope to run and mark the line between Haywood and Lauderdale Counties, and thereby reduce Haywood County to the constitutional limit of 625 square miles.  The Surveyor may employ chain carriers to assist him who shall be paid a reasonable amount for their services by Lauderdale County.
  2. Acts of 1857-58, Chapter 47, Section 8, changed the lines between Haywood and Madison Counties so that the residence and outhouses of John W. McKissack shall be wholly in Madison County.
  3. Acts of 1867-68, Chapter 60, provided that the lines between Lauderdale and Haywood Counties be changed to move the lands and improvements of Dr. Samuel Oldham into Lauderdale County.
  4. Private Acts of 1917, Chapter 320, altered the lines between Lauderdale and Haywood Counties so that all the lands of B. J. Pickard, the Thomas Lee estate, the Hay or Greene Bradford tract of land, Mrs. J. T. W. Milam, M. L. Wood, M. D. Coffman, K. F. Fennel, D. H. Cherry, and J. B. Lucas, and a small portion of the Baker and Sugg tract of land north of Gates Levee, be included in Lauderdale County.