The New International Encyclopædia/Covington (Tennessee)

COVINGTON. A town and the county-seat of Tipton County, Tenn., 37 miles northeast of Memphis; on the Illinois Central Railroad (Map: Tennessee, B 5). It is the shipping point for the cotton and other products of a fertile region, and has also flour and saw mills, cotton and cottonseed-oil mills, cotton-compress, etc. Population, in 1890, 1067; in 1900, 2787.