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Townsend, Tennessee

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  • This photograph is taken looking east toward Townsend in 1920s. Note the mill stack can be seen in background, right of center. The white house was home of Fred Ezell, postmaster at Townsend. The store building along the road burned in the 1930s. The lumber mill was part of the Little River Lumber Company, established in 1901 by Wilson Townsend.