Greene County: Bibliography
African American Community-building in Tennessee, 1860-1920
Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Digital Collections
Digital Collections: General
- Black in Appalachia
- Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- Southern Places Digital Collection , Middle Tennessee State University
- Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) , Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)
Maps
- General highway and transportation map, Greene County, Tennessee, 1938 (TSLA)
- Greene County Census District Maps (National Archives)
- Map of Greene County, Tennessee for Use of County Health Department, 1929 (TSLA)
- Rural delivery routes of Greene County, Tenn. (TSLA)
- Sanborn maps for Greeneville, Tennessee (Library of Congress)
- USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer (U. S. Geological Survey)
Newspapers
- Africo-American Presbyterian (North Carolina Newspapers)
- Newspapers.com: Southeast Edition (free access for Tennessee residents)
- Greeneville Daily Sun (TSLA microfilm)
- Greeneville Democrat (TSLA microfilm)
- Greeneville Herald (TSLA microfilm)
- The Searchlight (TSLA microfilm)
- Star of Zion - AME Zion Church (North Carolina Newspapers)
Other Primary Sources
African American Baptist Annual Reports: Tennessee/Oklahoma. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1997-1998. Microfilm.
American Religious Ecologies . Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2018–. http://religiousecologies.org .
Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870.
Tennessee Department of Education, 1874-1984, Record Group 273A. Schoolhouse Photos, 1938-1942. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Finding aid: https://tnsla.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/20619/0
The Tennessee Historical and Architectural Survey. Tennessee Historical Commission. View the Tennessee Historical Commission Viewer at https://tnmap.tn.gov/historicalcommission/ .
Secondary Sources
Doughty, Richard Harrison. Greeneville: One Hundred Year Portrait (1775-1875). Greeneville, Tenn.: Doughty, 1975.
New Hope Cemetery: How Its Restoration Brought a Community Together. Greeneville, Tenn.: New Hope Cemetery Association and the Big Spring Master Gardener Association, 2013.
Payne, Cordelia M. “House on the Ridge: Towards Preserving the African American Heritage of Greeneville, Tennessee.” PhD diss. Union Institute and University, 2010.
Thomas, Sue Piper, et al. Rheatown, 1771-1977. Rheatown United Methodist Women, 1977.
West, Carroll Van. " Historic Rural African-American Churches in Tennessee, 1850-1970 ," Multiple Property Submission, National Register of Historic Places, 1999.