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Decherd is situated on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad at the junction of the Decherd & Fayetteville Railroad
and two miles from Winchester. It had its origin with the completion of the former railroad in 1851. The only house then was the log cabin in which
Richard Holder was living. The place was named in honor of Peter S. Decherd. A good depot was built and Joseph Carter made agent and Mrs. Davidson
was put in charge of an eating house for the railroad company which she kept up to the war. Among its first merchants were Carroll Walker, John March,
Aaron Lynch, and Cyrus Barnes.
Before the war a good academy was built at a cost of about $1,000. It was destroyed during the war. A union church was built by the Methodists, Baptists,
Cumberland Presbyterians, and Christians. This was destroyed by Federal troops in the early part of the war. After the army of Rosecrans occupied Decherd
it became and continued to be an important military station until the close of the war. It was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly passed
January 30, 1868 and the charter was repealed by another act passed April 3, 1885. The town contains three general stores, one family grocery, queens
ware and hardware store, one drug store, one steam grist and flouring-mill, some mechanical shops, two churches, and a public school.
Source: History of Tennessee, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886
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