Editing Grand Junction, Tennessee (section)

==History==
[[File:Main Street scene - NARA - 280203.jpg|thumb|left|Grand Junction in 1940]]

Grand Junction was founded in 1858. It was named after the "Grand Junction" of the [[Memphis and Charleston Railroad]] and the [[Mississippi Central Railroad]]. The town was a [[railroad town]], with its own newspaper, two saloons, three hotels, a [[livery stable]], and other businesses.<ref name="GJHis"/> During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the [[Union Army]] held the city for approximately three years. Also during the Civil War General U.S. Grant established a “Contraband Camp” of thousands of former enslaved people, providing shelter, education etc. prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. (Ron Chernow, p 230) In 1878 a [[yellow fever]] epidemic struck the town and killed more than half of the 150 residents.<ref name="History">{{cite web | year=2011 | title=History | work=Welcome | publisher=Town of Grand Junction | url=http://www.grandjunctiontn.com/ | access-date=November 15, 2011 | archive-date=March 17, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317132805/http://www.grandjunctiontn.com/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The town was incorporated in 1901.<ref name="Nostalgia">{{cite web|year=2011 |title=Hardeman County, TN |work=Tennessee |publisher=Nostalgiaville |url=http://travel.nostalgiaville.com/Tennessee/Hardeman/hardeman.htm |access-date=November 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608195209/http://travel.nostalgiaville.com/Tennessee/Hardeman/hardeman.htm |archive-date=June 8, 2012 }}</ref>