Big Black Creek Historical Association

South West Madison County is mostly farm country with the primary crop being cotton, corn and soy bean.

Many fields cover hundreds of acres and are well maintained and groomed by the individuals responsible for raising the crops.

This is The Big Black Creek, It runs through Denmark and Mercer, Tennessee and was an important waterway during the Civil War.

Our historical association is named after this waterway, The Big Black Creek Historical Association.

Cotton field and farm with the various required out buildings.

Cotton Blooms come in different colors but primarily pink, yellow and white.

Corn as far as you can see from this restored 1800's farm house.

It must have been quite plesant to sit on this porch surrounded by each season's crop both then and now..

Soy Bean field. The 4 grave Springfield Cemetery is the elevated growth in the left rear of the picture. This picture was taken August 14, 2009.

A well preserved 1800's log cabin room. It was not uncommon for original one room log cabins to be incorporated into the construction of additions to a house. This room is now part of a much larger house and is in pristine condition.

This is another example of a one room log cabin being part of a larger house. Our last tornado destroyed the main house and exposed this single room log cabin.

The Pennington Building in Mercer, TN.

A great old barn.

An example of a slave / Freeman cabin.

 The turtles can grow very large in our area !

Keith, David & Brian building an old style coffin for Saturday's Denmark Presbyterian Cemetery Walk. 

The old Reid Plantation home. 

The old Tom Tyson House. It was partly destroyed by a tornado in October of 1909 and rebuilt. 

Rain.. LOTS of rain Saturday May 1, 2010.

Route 138 was flooded by the Big Black creek overflowing it's banks.

This is looking toward Mercer, TN.

The water had been much higher.

The Cotton Patch restaurant on Route 138.

Many farm fields were flooded.

Deer in the field at the end of Main Street in Denmark, 2 of many in the area.