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Tent City

Tent City is a Tennessee historical marker in Fayette County.

Fayette Co, south of Somerville, at intersection of State Hwy 76, co. road 195, & LaGrange Rd.

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A number of black Fayette County sharecroppers who participated in a voter registration drive were evicted from their lands in 1959-60. Many of them moved to "Tent City," also called "Freedom Village," where they lived in military surplus tents furnished by a local group. The first Tent City was established on County Road 195, 5 miles southwest of Somerville; a second one was located off Highway 57, approximately 4 miles east of Moscow, Tenn.

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