Secession Abandoned
In May, 1861, delegates of seven Kentucky and twenty Tennessee westernmost counties, the Jackson Purchase, met in Mayfield. Belief in Southern cause, dissatisfaction with Kentucky adherence to Union and Tennessee delay joining South caused convention vote to secede and form a Confederate State. With Tennessee’s vote to secede, June 8, 1861, proposal abandoned.
Marker is at the intersection of South Street and 7th Street, SR 58 (U.S. 45), on the right when traveling west on South Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
