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1807

In December 1807, when the Tennessee General Assembly created a new county, then Representative Robert Weakley attached an amendment to the bill specifying that the new county should be named in honor of Edwin Hickman.

In 1807 the county extended all the way to the present Alabama state line, and Vernon, on the Piney River, became the first county seat.

1820

By 1820 several new counties had been created out of Hickman County, and a movement began to move the county seat to a more central location.

1823

In 1823 the new town of Centerville became the county seat.

1832

The Lee and Gould Furnace on Sugar Creek opened in 1832.

1886

Indeed, Goodspeed's 1886 History of Tennessee rated Hickman County's iron ore as the best in the state.

1900

Jerome Spence published Spence's History of Hickman County in 1900.

1956

In fact, the original Bernard School building was destroyed by fire in 1956 — about two years after the Supreme Court decision — and Hickman Countians, black and white, made the decision to rebuild it!

1968

–Again, who was O.H. Bernard High’s greatest basketball player? Maybe it was Alvia Carter, who graduated in 1968.

1969

O.H. Bernard High School continued graduating young African Americans until after the 1969 commencement, although some black students had started attending the white Hickman County Schools earlier in the ’60s.

2006

In 2006, many among the alumni of O.H. Bernard School pooled resources and bought both buildings, and decided to convert the former school building into the “Bernard Community Center, Inc.” — a place for receptions, banquets, gatherings, classes, programs.

Then he had a long career as an X-ray technician at a Nashville hospital before his death in 2006.

2010

Hickman County’s overall population soared in 2010 to an all-time high of 24,600, with significant growth in the east half of the county due to sprawl from Nashville and its Davidson County.

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