Haywood County Farm and Cemetery

Haywood County Farm and Cemetery is a Tennessee historical marker in Haywood County.

Entrance into Haywood County Farm on south side of HWY 70

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In 1868 the county purchased a 150-acre farm for use as a poorhouse and rest home. The county buried indigents along the west ridge. Over time it added an asylum and structures for housing, farming, and prisons, with several extant buildings constructed in the 1930s as New Deal projects. From the 1920s the farm evolved into a workhouse/penal farm, continuing into the 1970s with a new jail that closed in 2012. Continued. A supporter of Haywood County's 1961 Tent City, Rev. Maurice F. McCrackin, a Presbyterian minister, was arrested. Refusing to defend himself in court, he was sentenced to the penal farm to pay off his fine. As of 2024 the county owns 86.5 acres of the original farm. In 2023 a cemetery monument was erected.

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1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Military map showing the marches of the United States Forces 1863-1865. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map XVIII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Haywood County Farm and Cemetery

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