Conservationists puzzle together Tennessee history

[PeterK]

For decades, heaps of land records laid untouched in the state Capitol’s attic before being moved to the Tennessee State Library and Archives when it was built in the 1950s. Now workers there are preserving the documents that detail land ownership and exchanges as far back as 1779.

By law, the documents must be kept permanently. But right now, they are largely inaccessible to researchers because they are bundled together in boxes, where most of them are in poor condition.

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