Editing Celina, Tennessee (section)

==History==

Celina was founded in the 19th century and named after the daughter of local pioneer entrepreneur and educator, [[Moses Fisk]]. In the late 19th century, Celina prospered as a logging town, receiving logs that had been cut in the forests to the east and floated down the [[Obey River]].<ref>The Federal Writers' Project,  ''The WPA Guide to Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1986), 508.</ref> In 1878, African Americans were violently driven out of Celina.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee Negroes Driven from their Homes|work=[[The Washington Star|The Evening Star]]|location=Washington, D.C.|date=November 4, 1878|page=1|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1878-11-04/ed-1/seq-1/|via=Chronicling America|quote=A report comes from reliable sources of an exodus of negroes living in the neighborhood of Celina, on the Upper Cumberland. It is stated that they have received a notice to leave the state within a certain time from some persons whose names they refuse to give for fear of harm. Numbers of them have crossed the river on their way to some distant place. What the trouble is none will say. Last July their church was burned by incendiaries, and about the first of September their school-house was fired, and some of them going to save it, met a volley of shots from concealed persons and were compelled to flee. The attorney-general had a number of witnesses before the grand jury, but elicited nothing more than the general facts as above, and could fix the responsibility on no one. It is probable that the present movement was caused by these and other acts, somewhat similar. Many of the negroes will leave farms.}}</ref>