The Rosemark Telephone Exchange tells the story of the Rosemark Telephone Company which was incorporated on December 9, 1911. Step back in time and sit at the “switchboard” that the operator used to connect phone lines for over 50 years.

The Edmund Orgill Park offers fishing, disc golf right, and picnic pavilions. The 6,436 yard, Par 72 yard course, established in 1972, is suitable for every skill level. The course was also listed among Golf Advisor’s Top 25 Most Improved Course List for 2016.

The historical marker reads: Robert Calvin Bland enjoyed a long and highly successful career as blues singer and songwriter “Bobby Blue Bland.” He spent his childhood in the community of Barretville. By age 11, he was singing for drivers of mule-drawn cotton wagons at the Barret Company gin (northeast of this site), thus earning as much as 50 cents for each rendition of country and western tunes. In less public settings, and away from his disapproving grandmother, he sang the…

During the winter of 1862-63, Confederate troops, including the First Tennessee Partisan Rangers, successfully attacked Federal troops in a series of skirmishes in southwest Tennessee.  

This ca. 1920 store was established by Paul Barret, a Shelby County banker, merchant, planter, businessman, and political and civic leader. One of the oldest continually operating businesses in the county, the store offers homestyle meals and homemade desserts, along with locally made goods to take home