CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Lake County:  1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• *History and Families : Lake County, Tennessee, 1870-1992 (Lake County Historical Society, 1993)
• *History of Tennessee From the Earliest Times to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley and Lake Counties (Goodspeed, 1978)
• * Lake County Memories : History in Newsprint and Pictures (Davis, 1998)

Additional county and community histories can be found at the Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources:  Lake County.  The items in the bibliography may not all be available at TSLA.

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• Churches of Lake County, Tennessee, Past and Present (Lake County Historical Society, 1986)
• Dyer Co., Tennessee, Gibson Co., Tennessee, Lake Co., Tennessee, Obion Co., Tennessee, Weakley Co., Tennessee : Enumeration of Male Inhabitants of Twenty-One (Reed, 1990)
• Lake County Veterans of World War II (Lake County Historical Society, 1998)
• Private Acts of Lake County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1993)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

An inventory of microfilmed Lake County records is available on our web site.  Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.  

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1883
• wills from 1871
• deed index from 1870
• chancery court minutes from 1896
• county court minutes from 1870
• circuit court minutes from 1892
• tax books from 1912

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Ridgely and Tiptonville.  Scattered early issues are available from 1908, and a complete run begins in 1937.  Microfilms are loaned to Tennessee libraries.  Individual reels may also be purchased.  An Inventory of Newspapers on Microfilm at TSLA is available on our web site.

• *Henley Collection. Lake County, 1968-1982  (Microfilm Manuscript #721, 1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.