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VISITING DYER COUNTY: Dyersburg
In 1818 Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, signed a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians in which the Indians relinquished ownership to their hunting grounds in West Tennessee. After the treaty was signed and the Chickasaw Indians ceded the territory, immigration began from Virginia and North and South Carolina with the county settling.
Dyersburg is located on what was know as “McIver’s Bluff”, a grant from the State of Tennessee. In the early 1920’s Joel H. Dyer of Jackson, Tennessee became the owner of the McIver grant of 640 acres for the purpose of building a county site. Sixty acres originally composed the town of Dyersburg, divided into 86 town lots. The original plan of the town was determined in 1825 and incorporated on January 10, 1850. In 1903 the old charter was repealed and a new charter granted to the Town of Dyersburg. |
