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Fentress County / Pickett County

Cumberland Historic Byway, Tennessee
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Fentress County was established in 1823 and named in honor of James Fentress, then speaker of the State House of Representatives, an office he had held for four terms. Pickett County was established in 1879 and named in honor of Howell L. Pickett, State Representative from Wilson County in 1879. He later moved to Arizona and practiced law at Tombstone.
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