Bolivar is quickly approaching its Bicentennial (200 year) anniversary in 2024 representing about 10 generations of time. This section is devoted to sharing some of the more interesting stories and happenings that have occurred over the past two centuries. See how many of them you have heard.
Click on the Story Title in the listing below to view the subject story:
DECADE STORY TITLE
1820 Margaret Robertson's Encounter with the Indians
1830 Bolivar Survivor tells Sam Houston to "Remember the Alamo"
1860 Thomas Alva Edison - Bolivar Telegraph Operator Makes Good
1860 Civil War Banks in Bolivar
1860 Civil War Battlefield Letter from Bolivar
1860 General Grant Gets a Warning from a Small Child
1860 Newborn Baby Found on the Battlefield
1862 Battle of Middleburg - December 24, 1862
1870 Confederate Monument Among First Erected in the South
1890 The Great Horse Manure Crisis
1900 Did the World's Richest Man Visit Bolivar on February 9, 1909?
1910 Seeds of Tennessee Women's Rights Movement Sown in Bolivar
1910 The Legend of Jesse James and his Bolivar Connection?
1950 A Segregated Education in the 1950s South
1960 Believe It or Not......It Happened in Bolivar!
1960 R.L. Ray, Hardeman County Surveyor and Most Unusual Man