Jackson-Madison County Library

Tennessee Room Selected Holdings

Photographs | Census Records | Tennessee Vital Records
| Funeral Home Records | Jackson City Directories

Photographs

The Tennessee Room has a collection of photographs and postcards pertaining to Jackson's past.  The  photographs are mostly copy prints provided by various donors.  A selection from our collection is available for viewing online through the courtesy of Main Street Publishing and Research in Jackson, Tennessee.  Click here to visit this collection.

A selection of photographs from the Jackson Business History Collection can be viewed at www.volunteervoices.org by doing a simple search of the Digital Collection using the words:   Jackson Business.


Census Records

Microfilm:

Tennessee

  • 1810-(Rutherford and Grainger Counties only)
  • 1820-1880
  • 1890 - Civil War Union soldiers enumeration only
  • 1900 - 1930

Tennessee Soundex 

  • 1880
  • 1990-1930 

Tennessee Special Schedules 

  • Agriculture:   1850-1880
  • Industry:  1850
  • Manufacture:  1860-1880
  • Social:   1850-1870
  • Mortality:   1850-1860; 1880
  • Male Inhabitants over age 21:  1891

Virginia 

  • 1790
  • 1810-1820

North Carolina

  • 1790-1820

South Carolina

  • 1790-1820

Kentucky

  • 1810

Connecticut

  • 1790

Maine

  • 1790

Maryland

  • 1790

Massachusetts

  • 1790

New Hampshire

  • 1790

New York

  • 1790

Pennsylvania

  • 1790

Rhode Island

  • 1790

Vermont

  • 1790

Census Descriptions of Geographic Subdivisions

  • 1830-1910

Tennessee Vital Records

   Microfilm:

  • Tennessee Death Indexes 1908-1957

  • Tennessee Death Certificates 1908-1957

  • Tennessee Birth Index 1908-1912

  • Tennessee Birth Certificates 1908-1912  (Madison County only)

  • Index to Tennessee Delayed Birth Certificates (prior to 1914)

Funeral Home Records:

  • Griffin Funeral Home 1889-1960
    Griffin Funeral Home 1964-1989

  • Smith Funeral Home 1930-1993

Jackson City Directories:

  • various dates beginning with 1872 (current City Directory in Reference Department)