The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town was incorporated in 1832 on the banks of the Tennessee River. The name most likely commemorates the Battle of Waterloo. According to the 1910 U.S. Census, Waterloo was reincorporated in 1903.
In the 1930s, the town was moved to its current location when the Tennessee Valley Authority completed the Pickwick Landing Dam, which impounds Pickwick Lake. Waterloo has lost a large area of land to floods and later the construction of Pickwick Landing Dam.
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Start Waterloo’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Waterloo’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Waterloo, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Waterloo is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Waterloo has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Central Iuka Historic District in Iuka, 10.2 miles away.
Waterloo and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.