Milton, I have an album of Dickson Family Pictures. Our name is Dickson not talking County here. One of those pictures of a man, wife and two children were taken at a photography studio in Rutherford, Tn. Could you please check and see if you can come up with anyone with the surname Dickson? Thank you for any help and for even offering, mighty nice of you. Thanks, Madelon -----Original Message----- From: Milton Webb <mwebb@iswt.com> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Train >Hi, all. I love and read a lot about the history of Gibson County, and then >promptly forget what I read.:0) With that in mind I referenced "In and >Around Rutherford, A History" by the Rutherford Heritage Committee for >Homecoming 1996, for a little gibson Co. train history. > >The first charter for a train in TN was in 1831, but it seems this was just >a good idea, since it did not get built. In W. TN, the Mobile and Ohio >started surveying a line in 1851. This line was completed in 1857/8. So if >your folks traveled in Gibson County before 1857/8 is was by river, wagon, >foot or horseback. > >If any have an interest I will do lookups in the Rutherford History. It is >not indexed by names so its a hunt and read type lookup. > >Milton > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Volunteer of "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness" >at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm