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Smithville was founded from part of the Town of Greene in 1808.
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Malick's fifth feature, The Tree of Life, was filmed in Smithville, Texas, and elsewhere during 2008.
Known variously as Smithville, then Macon, the name Grove Hill was selected around 1850 for the large grove of oak trees on the plateau.
It was originally named Smithville.
Unlike other Mormon settlements of the era, Smithville was not planned by the leaders of the church.
Smithville is also the nearest town for the final shoot-out between law enforcement and the famous tax fugitive Gordon Kahl on June 2, 1983, in which Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Matthews was also killed.
The land Smithville sits on was owned by Che-lah-cha-chubby, a Chickasaw Indian chief or sub-chief, and a trading post was established in 1820 at the location of what is now the intersection of highway 25 and Hatley-Smithville road.
The population of Smithville in 1865 was 1, 634.
The Smithville Valley Grange No. 1397 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The community was formerly called " Smithville.
Smithville ( later Smithville South ) was named for the many Smith families which joined the New Bridge, named for the peninsula on which it stood was along Merrick Road.
It has been locally known as " Smithville " from William P. Smith, who was an early resident there.
It was originally known as " Smithville "," Andersonville " and Sarahsburg from an early resident.
Southport developed around Fort Johnston and was originally named Smithville.
From 1808 to 1977, Smithville, renamed Southport in 1887, was the county seat of Brunswick County.
The borough was originally called " Smithville ", after its first group of settlers.
The area was active in the Free Will Baptist movement in the 19th century, and the Smithville Seminary, a Free Baptist institution, was nearby.
Smithville was established in 1827, when Thomas Gazely settled in the area and operated a store.
A community sprang up around the store, and it was named Smithville, in honor of another early resident, William Smith.
In 1887, the railroad came to Smithville causing the town's population to boom, and the town was incorporated in March 1895.
Smithville and founded
Will Mayfield was founded by William Henderson Mayfield and Dr. H. J. Smith as the Mayfield-Smith Academy in Smithville ( now Sedgewickville ) in Bollinger County.
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* 1892 The Missouri, Kansas and Texas lays track from Lockhart east to Smithville.
The eastern third of Smithville is a low lying area, prone to flooding from Machine Creek.
In 1880, Will Mayfield College moved to Marble Hill from Smithville.
* Smithville General Store – A small store along main street, across from Seebers Tavern.
* The James H. Long Railroad Museum, located at the intersection of First and Main Streets in Smithville, contains exhibits and relics from Smithville's railroad history.
Smithville has its own Music & Film Commission and continues to promote itself as a Film Friendly Community, a designation it received from the Texas Film Commission in 2008.
The long river flows generally southeast from Dawson County through Marble Falls, Austin, Bastrop, Smithville, La Grange, Columbus, Wharton, and Bay City before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay.
About were shortened from the routing when the new alignment was built between Smithville and Phelps Road.
DJ Screw was born in Bastrop, Texas, not far from Smithville, Texas.
* Lapham Institute, from from 1863 to 1876 the name of what is now the Smithville Seminary, a Freewill Baptist institution in Rhode Island
A portion of the branch of the former TH & B railroad ( CP's Dunnville Spur, built by the TH & B in 1914 ), running from Smithville to Port Maitland via Dunnville, was abandoned on May 7, 2001, when the Port Maitland Turn made its final run between Smithville and E & O on that line.
Noah Beery was born on a farm in Clay County, Missouri not far from Smithville.
The Georgia & Alabama had been operating its route from Smithville, Georgia through Eufaula, Alabama to White Oak, Alabama since June 1, 1989 under the Thoroughbred Shortline Program.
In 2006 the Georgia Southwestern purchased from Norfolk Southern the entire of track from Smithville to White Oak that had been leased up until that point.
In August 1995, the Georgia Southwestern purchased the former Central of Georgia line and acquired trackage rights from BV & E Junction ( Americus ) to Albany in order to access the rest of the GSWR network in Smithville.
The GSWR built a new locomotive shop at Dawson, and moved its offices from Smithville to Sasser during the same period.
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Smithville lies is nestled in the Ozark Foothills on the Salem Plateau, which is a part of the larger Ozark Plateau.
* Dibble Corner – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town, northeast of Smithville Center.
* Smithville Flats – A hamlet in the southwest part of the town on NY-41 and Genegantslet Creek.
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The Town of Smithville is served by the Monroe County School District.
The Town of Smithville is at the west border of Chenango County, west of the City of Norwich.
Evins died in Nashville March 31, 1984, and is buried in the Smithville Town Cemetery in Smithville.
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