The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area which is now Beech Bluff was first inhabited by the Chickasaw, from whom an earthwork remains. In 1852, a post office was established at Beech Bluff, which was then also known as Homer and used as a summer resort. After a section of the Tennessee Midland Railway was built through the area between 1888 and 1890, the name of the community was officially settled as Beech Bluff, deriving its appellation from a large grove of native beech trees near a local bluff. By 1897, the population had grown to approximately three hundred. The community was historically home to a high school, founded as a one-room schoolhouse in 1885 and closed during desegregation in 1977. It later became a grade school called Beech Bluff Elementary before it was converted into a recreation center in 2016.
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Nothing in Beech Bluff is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Beech Bluff has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Deberry-Hurt House in Jackson, 6.6 miles away.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.