Editing Hornsby, Tennessee (section)

==History==

Before 1820, Dr. Daniel Smith Webb started a [[gristmill]] and sawmill along the Little Hatchie River in Wade Creek Valley. The area would come to be known as Webb's Mill, and in the 1820s, Joel and William Crain, two [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary]] veterans, moved to the area and founded a port and supply depot near Webb's Mill. The area would eventually have a two churches, a [[subscription school]], a stagecoach stop and an inn between Bolivar and [[Purdy, Tennessee|Purdy]]. This town would be called Crainville. Crainville would become a railroad town in the early 1900s and a new train depot was built by the [[Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad]] on a farm owned by Kimborough Hornsby. An artesian well was drilled in 1915 near the depot and was the first of its kind in the United States. On October 16, 1920, Hornsby's charter was written and a new government was formed. The first home was built by Finley Holyfield in 1919 and by 1923 the town had earned the name "the village of artesian wells," with nine in total.<ref name="History"/>

In 1971, a [[tornado]] hit Hornsby, destroying a number of homes. A number of early 20th century homes still stand in the area and the remains of Crainville are still visible just east of town.<ref name="History"/>