The Manchester Guardian newspaper in its news from Noah Community 1881-82, describes Noah as having a country post office established in May or June of 1880. Located in the community were two grist mills deriving power from the Noah's Fork of the Duck River. There are in the vicinity, three churches, Baptist, Christian, and Methodist, one private and six public schools and a stream saw mill. Grain and hogs are the chief exports. Tri-weekly mail by horse and rider. Among the businesses listed were three blacksmith shops, Beckman Mill, two Wagon Makers, a carpenter, a shoemaker, two general stores, two doctors, an attorney, a tanner, and Wiser Bro's Mill (N. D., John, Francis).

There is also a record where Francis Marion Wiser taught school in the 5th district of Coffee County. In the 1880-81 school year for Beech Grove, a roll of students was kept on a vest size notebook.

Gave Land for School

Newton Daniel Wiser gave the land and the community furnished the materials and labor and Wiser's Bluff School came into being.This was about 1875 in the Third Civil District of Coffee County on Noah's Fork Road where Tax Assessor, Marvin Trail today owns a farm.The one-room frame building doubled as a meeting place for the Christian Church. Newton Daniel Wiser was the first teacher and he held classes in the building for several years.Mr. Wiser had served as a private in the Confederate Army unit, Company A, 44th Tennessee Infantry Regiment.Around 1914, the county built a one-room school facing the old building and this school operated until 1925 when Wiser's Bluff School was consolidated with Noah Junior High.The only remaining trace of this one thriving community is the old Wiser's Bluff Cemetery, which David Jacob Coffee County historian, said is "one of the oldest cemeteries in Coffee County."Old-timers say the first person buried in this cemetery was a woman - a member of a band of travelers passing through - who was stricken with the Asiatic Cholera Epidemic of 1833.

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