Many think Shady Grove community is in Gibson County and part of it is. Shady Grove was on the road known as the Burlington Highway that turned south at Waterford (also on the Rutherford Fork of the Obion River downstream) and went by Old Atwood to Huntingdon.
By the early 1820's, settlers were here at this old Indian site from Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina. Many of these crossed the Tennessee River at Reynoldsburg Ferry in Benton Co. and came to the most western part of Carroll County. Shady Grove overlooks the Rutherford Fork of the Obion River on a hill just east of the county line between Gibson and Carroll County. The actual county line was where the old iron bridge crossed the river.
The New Hope Baptist Church sat on this hill and had two cemeteries, one for the blacks and one for the whites. Some of the early settlers were buried there in the 1840's.
There was a stage coach stop there with fresh horse and lodging. Mr. Blankenship ran a store, the Denney School was there and the Masonic Lodge met there. Some of the homes were rolled to Milan on logs as was the Masonic Hall. The Masonic Hall was later used as church on the lower floor and lodge meetings the upper floor. The masonic hall after being moved to Milan was moved two more times, once to be used by the Milan Missionary Church and then the Milan College.
The New Hope Baptist Church split about 1841 and the Primitive group moved to a new location south of Shady Grove. In about 1860, the congregation gave the building to the blacks and moved to Milan. By 1939 both the Primitive Baptist and the Black New Hope Church moved out of the arsenal area.
During the Civil War, General Nathan Bedford Forrest sent troops on horseback to Trenton to monitor action by General Fuller. General Fuller left Trenton going to Huntingdon. There was a skirmish at Waterford and some soldiers were buried on the Robinson farm nearby. This group turned right on the Burlington Highway and went by way of Shady Grove where they camped. General Fuller had made it to Huntingdon by the time the battle of Parker's Crossroads started.

Hand coded by Jane N Powell notes submitted by Jere R Cox Jr.