The area in and around Adamsville was first surveyed by Davy Crockett . Just after 1818 , George C. Adams and his family were the first settlers of European ancestry to locate to the area . A trading post would be opened , just north of where the Adamsville Cemetery is today . The trading post served the local Native communities and Anglo settlers . In 1838 the Bell 's detachment of the Trail of Tears traveled through Adamsville . Settlers from North Carolina and Maury County , Tennessee migrated to the area and the settlement developed an agricultural economy . When the Battle of Shiloh was fought in 1862 , Union Army soldiers were camped in Adamsville
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Adamsville, Tennessee