This article appears in the Winter 2022 Issue of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly newsletter.
Reelfoot Lake Night Rider Cases
This rare Tennessee Supreme Court brief concerns the Reelfoot Lake Night Rider cases focused on violence that erupted when the West Tennessee Land Company bought tracts of Reelfoot Lake land, intending to drain a portion of the lake and use the land to grow cotton. Many community members who valued lake resources protested. On October 8, 1908, a vigilan...
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