Flat Creek, Bedford County, Tennessee

Flat Creek is situated seven miles southeast from Shelbyville in the Twenty-fourth District, and has a population of about 150 people. The town was founded in about 1840 upon a tract of school laud known as the Sixteenth Section. The first merchant was Thomas Newson, who kept a general store as early as 1841 or 1842.

 Early Business Men

Business Men of Present

John E. Wood, Hudson & Co. and Hale Bros., general stores.
J. H. Farran, groceries.
John Bryant, saddles and harness.
The Flat Creek Saw and Planing-mill was established in 1870, by John D. Floyd, and is now owned by Phineas Hix.
John Bryant, Nance Green and Matt Thomas, blacksmiths.

Physicians

Churches

Cumberland Presbyterian, built during the fifties at a cost of $1,000, frame.
Methodist Episcopal South, built in 1885, and cost $1,000, frame.
Christian, built in 1870, and cost $1,500, frame.

In 1850 the Primitive Baptists erected a large frame church, which was the first church in the town. This church passed into the hands of the Missionary Baptists, and afterward to the Separate Baptists, and that organization disbanding the church was abandoned, and while still standing and in a comparative state of preservation, is unused The Missionary Baptist (colored) congregation meets in the colored schoolhouse.

Schools

Flat Creek has a chartered academy and also good common white and colored schools.

 AHGP Tennessee

Source: History of Tennessee, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886.