Editing Halls, Tennessee (section)

==History==
The town was not established until 1882, when the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad (later the [[Illinois Central Railroad]]) set up a railroad stop on land in northern Lauderdale County. By 1899, the town had its own bank, and the following year the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company had set up a line connecting it to the county seat, Ripley.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rust |first=Randal |title=Lauderdale County |url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/lauderdale-county/ |access-date=December 20, 2023 |website=Tennessee Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}</ref> 

The village was originally named Hall's Station in honor of Hansford R. Hall, one of the founders. Other founders were J. S. Stephens and S. A. Jordan, early businessmen of Lauderdale County.

E. Stanfield, general merchant, was first to set up a business at Hall's Station in 1882. Other early businesses included Young & Sawyer, a steam-powered [[cotton gin]]; D. P. Shoffner, steam [[sawmill]] and wagon material; J. H. Farmer, saw-, grist- and [[planing mill|planing-]]mill and cotton gin. As of 1887, there were about 400 people in the community.<ref name=Goodspeed>[http://www.tngenweb.org/lauderdale/gshistory2.htm Lauderdale County History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226083911/http://www.tngenweb.org/lauderdale/gshistory2.htm |date=December 26, 2008 }}, Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887. Retrieved from Tennessee GenWeb website, April 10, 2011.</ref>

In August 1942, the [[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Forces]] constructed [[Dyersburg Army Air Base|Dyersburg Army Air Field]] on the north side of town. This was a major [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17]] and [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator|B-24]] base during [[World War II|World War 2]]. It closed in 1946 and was eventually converted to a municipal airport.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fulbright |first=Jim |title=The Aviation History of Tennessee |publisher=Bicentennial Production of the Tennessee Department of Transportation, Aeronautics Division |pages=80}}</ref>

On [[Tornado outbreak of January 17–18, 1999|January 17, 1999]], a tornado struck Halls damaging a restaurant and The Halls First United Methodist Church.  The church has since been rebuilt in another location.
<ref>[http://www.lctn.com/halls-tornado.html], Retrieved from Lauderdale County website, September 19, 2019.</ref>