Tennessee Homecoming ’86 Campbellsville HistoryFrom the book, Giles County Tennessee Homecoming ’86By Claudia Kay Johnson and Richard Hannah DunavantCampbellsville was named for Hamilton Crockett Campbell, an early settler who, along with John Dickey and Jacob...
Community Histories of Giles County, Tennessee, 1941 – 1942 Campbellsville Campbellsville is a lovely community located in the north-central section of Giles County. As to all Giles Countians, naturally, Giles County is the best county in Tennessee—so with the...
Campbellsville History from A Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County, Tennessee by James McCallum, 1876 Published by The Pulaski Citizen, Pulaski, Tennessee, 1928 SEC. SIX – CAMPBELLSVILLE AND BIG CREEK John Dickey, Esquire, father of...
First Oil Well to be Opened on Beeler Farm 17 Carloads of Machinery Expected to Arrive Next Week for Campbellsville Drilling Company Plans to Sink First Well to Depth of 5,000 to 8,000 Feet Within a few days, Giles County will witness the start of efforts to extract...
Unexpected Visitor Was Giles Oil Driller in 1947 by Johnny Phelps, GILES PATHS, The Giles Free PressThursday, June 25, 1987-staff photo by Johnny PhelpsTommy Horne points to the remains of Giles County’s first oil well dug in 1947 at a cost of $200,000.Two weeks...
