Beech Bluff, TN

Beech Bluff is an unincorporated community on the east-central edge of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The area which is now Beech Bluff was first inhabited by the Chickasaw, from whom an earthwork remains. In 1852, a post office was established at Beech Bluff, which was then also known as Homer and used as a summer resort. In Beech Bluff, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Beech Bluff, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Beech Bluff is built on deposits of loess which have developed brown or grayish brown silt loam soils. These are mapped as Grenada, Memphis or Lexington series where drainage is good, and Calloway in somewhat poorly drained areas. Beech Bluff is home to a high school, founded as a one-room schoolhouse in 1885.