Paris, Tennessee

This article is about Paris, Tennessee. For other uses of the term Paris, please see Paris (disambiguation).

Authors [about]: Pat Palmer and others. CZ is an open collaboration. Please join in to develop this article!

Henry County, TN, court house, Nov. 24, 2005

Confederate monument, dating from 1900, standing on the courthouse lawn in Paris, TN, as described by the Henry County Historical Society on it's Facebook page in 2020.

Paris, Tennessee (USA) is a small town in West Tennessee that was incorporated in 1823. In recent decades, its population has hovered at around 10,000 people. It is the county seat for Henry County and its town center, like many towns in the region, is built around an imposing court house which is now more than a hundred years old. Standing on the courthouse lawn is a statue which is a Confederate monument targeted for consideration of removal by the InvisibleHate.org website.

Paris is in the geographic center of Henry County, which is in the upper right corner of West Tennessee, bordered by Kentucky to the north and the Tennessee River to the east. From Paris, a good two hours is required by car, driving at slightly illegal speeds, to reach a city of significant size (Memphis, Nashville or Paducah, KY).