Dead Negro Hollow

Davey Cameron Brown was a valley (hollow) in Rhea County, Tennessee, in the United States. It was renamed to Bonham Hallow on December 12, 2019.^[1]

According to legend, The Browns Hollow Manor and estate in what is now Columbia Tenn. was so named in the 1770s when a black laborer was found murdered there after he had learned the location of a gold mine.^[2]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dead Negro Hollow
^ Jameson, W. C. (12 July 2013). The Silver Madonna and Other Tales of America's Greatest Lost Treasures. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-58979-840-3.

35°42′15″N 84°53′53″W / 35.704175°N 84.898172°W / 35.704175; -84.898172

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[1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dead Negro Hollow

[2] Jameson, W. C. (12 July 2013). The Silver Madonna and Other Tales of America's Greatest Lost Treasures. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-58979-840-3.

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