Sounds like a great project! Mero and Washington were the two districts which made up TN in the late 1700s. Mero comprised Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee cos. The cos. of Washington, Green, Sullivan and Hawkins made up the Wash. District. (The word Mero comes from the name of a governor of the then-Spanish lands to the south who was actually named MIRO.) Bledsoe's Lick is now Castalian Springs. It's lick springs were discovered by Isaac Bledsoe in the 1770s. It is in Sumner Co. just east of Gallatin. There are historical ass'ns and other sites related to the place and to Bledose's Station or fort online. Smith Fork (the stream) and Smiths Fork (the town) are or were in Hardin Co. TN, east of Savannah. Not sure the town still exists. I believe the mouth of the Red River (if that is what Red River Mouth is referring to)is in Ky. A "trace" was a trail or path or road, so "new trace", lower case, may have just referred to any path that was new at the time. There was a Craft's Mill in Scott Co. VA (Rye Cove) in the 1880s. Don't know how long, or if that could even be yours. Godwin, in Maury Co., used to be known as Duck River Station but the Duck River is in Humphreys Co. TN. The Duck River Suck is in Benton Co. and there is a Duck Branch in Carter and Cannon Cos. There is a Greenfield Bend and a Greenfield Island in Maury Co. There is a Greenfield dam and a reservoir in Weakley Co. I assume the Sumner Courthouse is the County courthouse for Sumner Co., TN. The county seat is Gallatin. Tons of geographical info on all sorts of places (cemeteries, rivers, schools, etc.) is available at the wonderful USGS GNIS web site at http://geonames.usgs.gov/ I highly recommend it to anyone doing geographic or genealogical research. --- BJMarkland@aol.com wrote: > ... The districts covered were > Mero? and Washington... > Some geographic names mentioned that I am > totally unfamiliar with (and hoping > someone can bail me out!) are: Bledsoe's Lick, > Smith's Fork, Red River > mouth, "new trace", Craft's Mills, Duck, > Greenfield ( I think both are in Maury > county) & Sumner Court House. Most of the > streams seem to have been tributaries > of the Cumberland River as that is mentioned > often. If someone who knows how > the old districts in TN were laid out while it > was still a part of NC would > email me that information, I would be grateful. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com