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Discover Our Backyard! Your Guide To Wayne And Surrounding Counties Presented By: The Wayne County News PPAGEAGE 11.indd.indd 1 55/24/12/24/12 22:51:21:51:21 PMPM PAGE TWO - WAYNE COUNTY NEWS - 2012 TOURISM GUIDE evening! Interested? 15 years old sh for free, information, visit www. and along Dexter Woods Schedule Of Events Vendors - Denise (931) and for prizes! Fun, waynceountychamber. Blvd, Waynesboro, TN 676-2024, BBQ - Byron Food, and Prizes! Lets org For Wayne County (931) 722-0195. Clifton, get our children excited July 4- Fourth of July TN about shing and our June 23 -North in the Park-. Games, May 31 through June natural resources! Mississippi Dulcimers food and entertainment 4 The Moving Wall @ June 1-2nd Smoke June 2nd- Butter y Clifton, TN return to the Wayne all day in City Park, Clifton City Park. on the River: Backyard 5K Walk/ Run- Join County Welcome next to the waterslides! What: Half size Barbecue Competition us for our 3rd annual June 9th 9th Annual Center 10 A.M. to 2 Waynesboro, TN replica of the Vietnam and Art Show @ Ross Butter y 5K Walk/ Run Tour de Wayne bicycle P.M. with free lessons Veterans Memorial in Creek Recreational at Waynesboro City ride will tour the after. The public is July 14- 9 A.M. to 3 Washington, DC; the Area. Park, off Hwy 64 East, Natchez Trace Parkway, invited to attend. The P.M. Wayne County only place you can see What: In its fourth Waynesboro. Gun time cities of Collinwood, welcome center is Family History and it in Tennessee this year, Smoke on the is 8:00 am. Beginners Waynesboro and located in Collinwood, Crafts Fair. Genealogy year. If you cant go River is back and bigger and professionals of all along the Tennessee just off mile marker workshops, re-enactors to Washington, come than ever! Watch the ages invited! For entry Riverfront in Clifton, 355 of the Natchez from War of 1812 and to Clifton! Honor and barbecue competition; forms, please contact TN. Registration begins Trace Parkway. Free War Between the States. remember our Veterans. enjoy some delicious Jim Beavers at 931- at 6:30 A.M. at the admission, donations Free to public, donations The Moving Wall will be BBQ, as well as other 722-3658 or jtbeavers@ Wayne County Welcome always appreciated! welcome! open to the public 24 hrs food vendors. Come hughes.net Center, just off mm 355 a day. No admission fee. watch the talent of of the Natchez Trace July 3 Fireworks July 16-20 - FastPass- Clifton, TN. For more our local artisans on June 9th TWRA Parkway in Collinwood, over Waynesboro!! Best Allison Owners Rally information visit www. display, and shop the Fishing Rodeo @ 7 A.M. TN. Tour begins at 8 show around! Begins on the Tennessee waynecountychamber. various vendors at the at Clifton City Park. A.M. For a registration at 9 P.M. View from River in Clifton, TN. org event. Live band Friday What: Children under form and more Waynesboro Square (Continued On Page Four) W!"n# County...Jason Rich Ric Wilson Billy Vencion County Executive Sheriff Property Assessor Billy Joe Janice Smith Stan Horton Martin Trustee County Clerk Road Superintendent Ruth Butler Billy Crews James Ross Register Of Deeds County Court Clerk Sessions Judge PPAGEAGE 22.indd.indd 1 55/24/12/24/12 22:54:12:54:12 PMPM 2012 TOURISM GUIDE - WAYNE COUNTY NEWS - PAGE THREE It has been a welcome site sixty four days a year. who appreciate clean Wayne County Welcome Center to over sixty thousand They are loyal, dedicated restrooms, a cozy repla- visitors, primarily volunteers giving back to ce in the winter, national travelers along the their community in a very weather coverage all day, A Warm And Welcoming Site Natchez Trace Parkway. special way. Visitors are every day, and countless Most have complimented greeted with fresh hot maps, brochures and on how amazed they are coffee, homemade treats travel information that at the hospitality they and a smiling face. is kept up to date and were extended. The Wayne County available. Thirty volunteers staff Welcome Center is much We are the welcome the center seven days more than just a building. center that proudly a week three hundred It is a haven for travelers says: Welcome to Tennessee. Mikes Cycle Oldest URAL Dealer in U.S.A. We are a stocking dealer for Royal Eneld Service On Most Makes and Models Ask About Vintage And Used Parts Waynesboro TN 931-722-5970 facebook: Mikes Cycles & Marine The Wayne County Welcome Center has been in operation for ve years. Giving A Warm Welcome To Wayne County Visitors.... We Wash New & Used Tires Brake Repair Window Tinting Oil Change Wash Special!! To $ 95 Full Detail $292695 Call Dan Creasy - 676-7913722-6800 219 E. Broadway Street - Collinwood, TN - 931-724-4337 Hwy. 64W - Just Off Waynesboro Square PAGE FOUR - WAYNE COUNTY NEWS - 2012 TOURISM GUIDE families at home endured. are available online at . .Wayne As Santayana, Burke and www.civilwartrails.org. (Continued From Page Two) many others after them Individual state maps of For more information, have stated Those who these trails are available please contact The Bear do not know history are at Tennessee Welcome Inn at 931-676-5552. destined to repeat it. The Centers and most Civil War Trails project is local welcome centers, September 1st - a ve- state trail system convention and visitors Old Timers Day - dedicated to marking bureaus and chambers of Collinwood. many of the lesser commerce. In Tennessee, September 7th and 8th known sites and telling ve years have been set - Horseshoe Riverbend the hardships of war and aside to commemorate Festival - Clifton. making the connections the states participation September 15th for the next generations in the war. Many events - Harvest Festival - to better understand the have taken place and Waynesboro. signi cance of this war many more are planned Five Civil War Trail and the after effects of it. at marker sites, preserved Take An Educational Trailblazing signs along battle elds, memorial Trip Thru The Markers Designate of brother against brother the routes lead travelers to sites and museums across Hills And Valleys but until one really begins each of over 1,000 marker Tennessee to provide Of Wayne County! researching the details sites. Information on as much education and Youll Be Enlightened Sites In Wayne County behind the folk tales does the trails in the states of research on the Civil War one discover the true brutal By Its Beautiful A multitude of battle participation in the War Virginia, West Virginia, as possible. Most events cruelty and devastation And Peaceful sites, stories and legends Between the States. Weve Maryland, North are open and free to the the soldiers and their Carolina and Tennessee Surroundings!!! came out of Tennessees all heard that it was a war (Continued On Page Five) United Country Wayne Countys Terry Realty Hometown Bank Wayne Countys Oldest Real Estate Agency REGULAR BUSINESS HOURS: Serving Wayne County Since 1977 8:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. The Only United Country Franchised Ofce Based In Monday Thru Thursday Waynesboro/Wayne County 36 Years Of Experience Working For You 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Friday Full Lending Service At Main Ofce And Collinwood No One Knows 8:00 A.M. - Noon Saturday The Country (Barlow Ofce Closed Like We Do Wednesday & Saturday) ALLEN TERRY, Broker/Owner TERRY REALTY PATTY TERRY, Owner LANCE WYLIE, Aff. Broker Bank of Waynesboro To See Our Properties Go Public Square & Barlow, Waynesboro To Our Web: TOMMY JOHNSON, Aff. Broker www.tennesseeland.org Highway 64 W - Waynesboro Bank of Collinwood E-Mail 931-722-3686 Ofce Broadway Street - Collinwood [email protected] 722-8145 Cell 931-722-2265 Or 931-724-2265 722-3687 Fax 2012 TOURISM GUIDE - WAYNE COUNTY NEWS - PAGE FIVE boro is located directly at this church ended as (which sustained damage). .Five Civil the ghting began. It The second marker, (Continued From Page Four) on the Waynesboro Court Square and still waiting was occupied by soldiers Forrest Crosses the public. Updated listings for approval. This marker from both sides during Tennessee, describing on all Tennessee events states that confusion the war. A Union soldier famed Confederate Gen. can be downloaded at from Waynesboro, Col. N.B. Forrest arrived here www.tnvacation.com reined as bullets ew William Kindrick, was Dec. 15, 1862, to begin Wayne Countys present between two Union units. one of the of cers who his First West Tennessee Civil War marker sites are As the 5th Tennessee Raid. His 2,100 troopers Nathan Bedford Forrest Cavalry (US) marched escaped from Libby Crossing at Clifton toward town to open a Prison in Richmond VA in ferried across the river Riverfront and Clifton recruiting of ce, it was February 1864. He died at here, dodging Union Presbyterian Church, harassed by Confederate his home (still standing) a gunboats. Main Street, Clifton, partisans, some dressed month later. The Collinwood and a Union Skirmish Site in blue. The Tennesseans Two markers have also Waynesboro markers on Waynesboro Court ran into another Union been installed in Clifton were funded through Square; Waynesboro out t and mistook them on Main Street nearby the grants from Buffalo/ Cumberland Presbyterian Loyalties, describing (Shiloh), and Confederate for Confederates. The Tennessee River. The rst Duck Rive RC&D, Church just north of the that although no major Gen. John Bell Hood mishap resulted in three marker named, Occupied Wayne County, City of square and the county military action happened marched across the county soldiers wounded before River Town, describes Waynesboro, Wayne gateway marker at the in the county, the area on his way to defeat at of cers gured out the the busy port city on the County Welcome Wayne County Welcome saw two massive troop Franklin and Nashville situation.