Crossville, Tennessee Crossville, Tennessee Cumberland County Courthouse in Crossville Cumberland County Courthouse in Crossville Location of Crossville, Tennessee Location of Crossville, Tennessee County Cumberland Crossville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Crossville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area. The populace was 10,795 at the 2010 census. Crossville advanced at the intersection of a branch of the Great Stage Road, which connected the Knoxville region with the Nashville area, and the Kentucky Stock Road, a cattle drovers' path connecting Middle Tennessee with Kentucky and later extending south to Chattanooga.
1939 photo of Crossville's Piggly Wiggly, which at the time was positioned at the corner of Main and 2nd When Cumberland County was formed in 1856, Crossville, being nearest the center of the county, was chosen as county seat.
Crossville and Cumberland County suffered rampant pillaging throughout the Civil War as the well-developed roads made the region accessible to both occupying Union and Confederate forces and bands of renegade guerrillas.
During the Great Depression, the federal government's Subsistence Homestead Division initiated a housing universal south of Crossville known as the Cumberland Homesteads.
The project's recreational region would later turn into the nucleus for Cumberland Mountain State Park. Crossville has long been a great crossroads of East and Middle Tennessee.
Crossville is positioned at the center of Cumberland County at 35 57 15 N 85 1 53 W (35.954221, -85.031267). The town/city is situated up on the Cumberland Plateau amidst the headwaters of the Obed River, which slices a gorge north of Crossville en route to its confluence with the Emory River to the northeast.
Crossville is roughly halfway between the plateau's easterly escarpment along Walden Ridge and its escarpment along the Highland Rim.
Several small lakes are positioned on the outskirts of Crossville, including Lake Tansi to the south, Lake Holiday to the west, and Byrd Lake at close-by Cumberland Mountain State Park.
The average altitude of Crossville is approximately 1,890 feet (580 m) above sea level.
Crossville advanced at the intersection of two primary stage roads by which pioneer moved through the area.
70, passes through the northern part of Crossville.
Crossville is approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Cookeville, 80 miles (130 km) north of Chattanooga, and 70 miles (110 km) west of Knoxville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Crossville has a total region of 20.3 square miles (52.7 km2), of which 20.0 square miles (51.7 km2) is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2), or 1.95%, is water. Climate data for Crossville, Tennessee.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Recent populace estimates show the populace of Crossville around 11,498 in 2008.
Native Stone Museum, one of many buildings in Crossville assembled of Crab Orchard Stone Cumberland Mountain State Park is positioned immediately south of Crossville.
The Cumberland Homesteads are also positioned south of Crossville.
The Native Stone Museum, positioned in a 1930s-era Tennessee Highway Patrol station on the courthouse square, is dedicated to Crab Orchard Stone, a small-town building material used in many of the city's buildings.
The United States Chess Federation moved its corporate offices to Crossville from New Windsor, New York, in 2005.
The Cumberland County Playhouse is the only primary non-profit experienced performing arts resource in non-urban Tennessee, and one of the 10 biggest experienced theaters in non-urban America.
Crossville bills itself as "the golf capital of Tennessee" and features 12 courses: Stonehenge, Heatherhurst Crag, Heatherhurst Brae, Deer Creek, River Run, Four Seasons, The Bear Trace, Dorchester, Mountain Ridge, Renegade, Druid Hills, and Lake Tansi.
The Cumberland County Fair is held every August.
Until recently, a free-speech zone on the Cumberland County Courthouse lawn was the site of a several unofficial displays, including a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, an Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier's Memorial, a miniature Statue of Liberty, chainsaw carvings of a nativity scene, Jesus carrying the cross, and monkeys and bears. As of April 30, 2008, the lawn is no longer a free-speech zone due largely to the controversy caused by the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue. The Merrimack Canoe Company, originally from Merrimack, New Hampshire, is based in Crossville.
Milo Lemert, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for action near Bellicourt, France, amid World War I and buried in Crossville City Cemetery Thomas Shadden, politician, former member of the Tennessee General Assembly and former Crossville mayor Michael Turner, comic book artist, born in Crossville; former president of the entertainment business Aspen MLT Crossville, Tennessee Pictorial History.
Tennessee Blue Book, 2005-2006, pp.
Bullard and Krechniak, Cumberland County's First Hundred Years, 180-188.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Crossville city, Tennessee".
United States Enumeration Bureau, Crossville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Helen Bullard and Joseph Krechniak, Cumberland County's First Hundred Years (Crossville, Tenn.: Centennial Committee, 1956), 22-26 The WPA Guide to Tennessee (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986), 442.
Originally compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration as Tennessee: A Guide to the State, and presented in 1939.
Donald Brookhart, "Cumberland County", Tennessee Encyclopedia of Culture and History, 2009, accessed 7 November 2011 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing: Decennial Censuses".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014 (PEPANNRES): Incorporated Places in Tennessee".
Cumberland County Playhouse official site.
Gary Nelson, Flying Spaghetti Monster takes up residence at county courthouse, Crossville Chronicle, March 24, 2008 The Crossville Chronicle, 15 April 2008.
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City of Crossville official website Cumberland County Playhouse Speak Up Crossville Crossville News First Municipal Technical Advisory Service entry for Crossville knowledge on small-town government, elections, and link to charter Municipalities and communities of Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States
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