Alexandria Tennessee

Alexandria, Tennessee is a town in DeKalb County, Tennessee, United States with roots in the early 19th century; it was founded circa 1806 by Daniel Alexander, who purchased land along branches of Hickman Creek and Goose Creek and laid out lots that became the community, and it became part of newly formed DeKalb County in 1837 when county boundaries shifted after earlier inclusion in Smith and briefly Cannon counties—important for locating early deeds and records. A post office was established in 1838, the first tax list appeared in 1839, and the area was recorded in the 1840 census, with civil registration and local governance developing through mid-19th century records. Today Alexandria lies along U.S. Route 70 and Hickman Creek in northwest DeKalb County; vital records (births, marriages, deaths), land and probate records, court documents, and federal censuses for genealogical research are held by DeKalb County offices and Tennessee state archives, with documentation extant from its early settlement period onward. The broader region was part of the traditional territory of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands prior to early 19th-century settlement by Euro-Americans.