Troy, the first town in Obion County and its county seat from 1825 to 1890, was laid out in 1825 with the assistance of Davy Crockett, who later represented the district in Congress. In the nearby Obion River bottoms he made his record year's kill of bears, 105. Obion County was organized on January 14, 1824, in the home of Colonel William M. Wilson, 3 miles southwest. Near that site and on his Revolutionary land grant is Campground, an important early county cemetery.