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Brighton is a town in Tipton County, Tennessee. The population was 2,735 at the 2010 census.〔Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, (Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties ), State of Tennessee official website, 14 July 2011. Retrieved: 6 December 2013.〕 ==History== Brighton was established in the year 1873 along the newly completed tracts of the Memphis and Paducah Railroad upon the lands of A. W. Smith, Sr. who gave the initial five acres for the Depot grounds. The new town was named for Mr. Bright, the first conductor on the Memphis Division of the said road. The new town grew quickly. By the late 1870s, Brighton had two dry goods stores, three grocery stores, two saloons, two blacksmith shops, two wagon shops, one brick yard, one steam saw and grist mill, one steam cotton gin, a Baptist church, two physicians, and a population around 100. In 1883, the veterans of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States of America made Brighton the permanent site of their annual reunion. At Brighton the veterans reunion took on new dimensions and it grew into a reunion of all Confederate veterans of Tipton County and the surrounding region. Over the years, attendance of this annual August event grew peeking at 15,000 in 1897. The Tipton County Confederate Veterans Reunion, as it became to be known, continued to be held at Brighton until 1940. Brighton was incorporated by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1913 and the town today continues to operate under the same charter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brighton, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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