Hornsby, TN

Hornsby is a town in Hardeman County and McNairy County, Tennessee. The 2020 census counted 264 residents. The town is just east of Bolivar along U.S. Highway 64. Daniel Smith Webb started a gristmill and sawmill along the Little Hatchie River in Wade Creek Valley. Hornsby was historically known for its artesian well which was historically located at the former Whitehurst Motor Company. That well closed in the 1960s to the public, however, one well, the last of nine original wells in the area is open to visitors.

The town has one elementary school: Hornsby Elementary School. The short version is that Hornsby carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Hornsby: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The area would come to be known as Webb's Mill, and in the 1820s, Joel and William Crain, two Revolutionary veterans, moved to the area and founded a port and supply depot near Webb's Mill.