CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Morgan County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1350-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Morgan County census records in book form:  1830,  *1850, 1870,  *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Heritage of Morgan County, Tennessee, 1817-1999  (1999)
• *History of Morgan County, Tennessee  (Freytag & Ott,  1971)
• *Morgan County  (Dickinson,  1987)
• Morgan County, Tennessee, Rugby, Tennessee, an Attempted Utopia  (Stott,  1939)
• Pictorial History of Morgan County, Tennessee  (1976?)
• Rugby, Morgan county, Tennessee : Settlement Founded October 5th, 1880  (1880)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census, Morgan County, Tennessee  (Sistler,  1996)
• Cumberland Co., Tennessee, Fentress Co., Tennessee, Jackson Co., Tennessee, Loudon Co., Tennessee, Morgan Co., Tennessee, Overton Co.  [1891 enumeration of male voters]  (Reed,  1990)
• *Morgan County, Tennessee 1850 Census  (Cross,  1985)
• Morgan County Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions  (Cross,  1986)
Morgan County, Tennessee Deeds (1818-1846)  (Bailey,  2000)
• Morgan County, Tennessee, Land Survey Books, A & B, 1824-1836  (Bailey,  1997)
• Morgan County, Tennessee Marriages, 1862-1901  (Gammell,  1986)
• *Morgan County, Tennessee Marriages, 1865-1886  (Douthat,  1986)
• Morgan County, Tennessee Newspaper Abstracts, 1819-1890 : (Obituaries, Marriages, and Other Items of Genealogical Interest)  (Bailey,  2000)
• *Morgan County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1914 Through 1925  (Wiefering,  1994)
• Tennessee, Records of Morgan County : County Court Minutes, 1824-1827  (WPA,  1939)
• Tennessee, Records of Morgan County, Marriage Records, 1862-1887  (WPA,  1939)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1862
• wills from 1868
• probate records from 1866
• deed index from 1818
• chancery court minutes from 1865
• county court minutes from 1848
• circuit court minutes from 1840
• tax books from 1881

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Deed Index -- 1818-1914  Direct  (#17,  1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1888-1914  Reverse  (#18,  1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Morgan County  (Record Group #107, Roll 63,  1 reel)    Roll includes County Court Minutes (1824-1827),  Marriage Records (1862-1887),  and Rugby, Tennessee: An Attempted Utopia by Kathleen Brock Scott (undated).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Oakdale, Rugby, Sunbright and Wartburg.  Scattered early issues are available from 1895, and a complete run begins in 1960.   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.

• *Ledger and Notebook. Wartburg (Morgan County), 1834-1852  (Microfilm Manuscript #928,  1 reel)
• *Morgan County Miscellaneous Records, ca. 1800-1974  (Microfilm Manuscript #568,  2 reels)
• *Rugby Colony Papers, 1872-1938, Morgan County  (Microfilm Manuscript #39,  1 reel)
• *Rugby Colony Papers, 1880-1934, Morgan County  (Microfilm Manuscript #253,  9 reels)
• *Rugby Colony Papers, Board of Aid to Land Ownership Account Books. Morgan County, 1880-1890  (Microfilm Manuscript #239,  1 reel)
• *Rugby Papers (Addition). Morgan County, 1872-1942  (Microfilm Manuscript #952,  1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.