Mermaid · Winchester, Tennessee · 1873

TN-1873ID case-7ba8ac3867Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

The account

Witness reports that two servant girls and a boy saw something in the water which they decided must be a mermaid.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

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Creature: Mermaid
Where: Winchester, Franklin County, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Jun 1873
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-7ba8ac3867

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Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

Image 1 of The home journal (Winchester, Tenn.), June 26, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-06-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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