Welcome to Waverly, Tennessee!
On the earliest maps of the county, the present site of Waverly is marked Pavatts. It was possibly a stage stop on the old stageroad. The town was named Waverly by Steven C.Pavatt, who named it Waverly as he was a great admirer of the Waverly novels by Sir Walter Scott.
Waverly was incorporated in 1838.Commissioners were appointed to reserve an area in the center of town for a courthouse. A courthouse was built on this spot in 1836.A second and larger courthouse was built on this spot at a later date and stood for forty years until November 1876 when it was destroyed by fire during the setting of the Circuit Court. As the fire occurred during the daytime the records were saved. A third courthouse was built on the same spot and it to was destroyed by fire on June 10, 1898. The fire burned all record books and files of papers except the land deed records which were in a fireproof vault. The fourth courthouse was built in 1899 and demolished in 1951 and 1952 to make way for the fifth and present courthouse. One other important event in the history of Waverly was a fire in 1911 when the main downtown buildings burned.
