Editing Algood, Tennessee (section)

==History==

While Algood was not established until the late 19th century, in the early 19th century a small community developed just south of modern Algood at [[White Plains (Putnam County, Tennessee)|White Plains]], an [[Antebellum architecture|antebellum]] [[plantations in the American South|plantation]] and important stopover along the Walton Road (which connected [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] and [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]]).<ref>Mary Jean DeLozier, Putnam County, Tennessee, 1850–1970 (Cookeville, Tenn.: 1979), pp. 12-14.</ref>  In the 1880s, the Nashville & Knoxville Railroad erected a depot at what is now Algood.  The land on which the depot was built was purchased from a [[circuit rider (religious)|circuit rider]] and early settler named Joel Algood, and thus the train stop was named after him.<ref>DeLozier, p. 100.</ref>  For a period of time the area would be called Algood's Old Fields.<ref name="Miller2001">{{cite book|author=Larry L. Miller|title=Tennessee place names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zOzPQYkkbaAC&pg=PA183|accessdate=November 21, 2011|date=October 2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-21478-2|page=4}}</ref> In 1899, the Algood Methodist Church (now Algood United Methodist Church) was built on land donated by the children of this early settler.<ref>"[http://www.frontiernet.net/~algoodumc/Church_History.htm Algood United Methodist Church &mdash; History of the Church]."  Retrieved: January 7, 2008.</ref>  Algood was initially incorporated in 1901, but repealed its own charter two years later.  The town reincorporated in 1911.<ref>DeLozier, p. 140.</ref>