Fowlkes is an unincorporated community in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States.

History Originally founded as Fowlkes Station in 1882 by W.P. Fowlkes, the following year the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad was completed in Dyer County. The line for this railroad passed through the community of Fowlkes. By 1887, the community supported a school, a Methodist church, and multiple grist mills and cotton gins.

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Education The school district is the Dyer County School District. - Text list The zoned high school is Dyer County High School in Newbern.

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