3rd Street (State Highway 57), La Grange,
TN ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
35° 2' 43.319976",
-89° 14' 37.919976"
Tennessee State Historical Marker
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Settled in 1819 on the site of an Indian trading post, it was named for General La Fayette's ancestral home in France. He visited La Grange in 1824 and called it the Beautiful Village. Its location on a bluff made it a natural military post; during the