Henning, Tennessee
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Henning is a town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 871 at the 2020 census.
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Alex Haley's boyhood home and his grave beside the home (2007)
Historical marker in front of Alex Haley's boyhood home (2007)
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw, an Indigenous Indian people, and the only one in the state of Mississippi. On April 20, 1945, this tribe
Henning, Tennessee
…unincorporated Lauderdale County, near Henning. Previously the Cold Creek Correctional Facility was located in the area. Henning is home to a community of Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The tribe placed 79 acres of local land into federal trust in 2012, making it the only Native American Indian tribe that owns land in Tennessee. Henning…
From left to right, Chief Wesley Johnson, Thomas B. Sullivan, Culberson Davis, James E. Arnold, and Emil John.
Group of Mississippi Choctaw males in the late 50s or early 60s. Photograph by Bob Ferguson.
Phillip Martin and family in the late 1950s or early 1960s