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Friendship is located at (35.910370, -89.241827 [ 8 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2 ), all land.
State Route 189 (SR 189) is a short 5.5-mile-long (8.9 km) north–south state highway in Crockett County, Tennessee, connecting the towns of Maury City and Friendship. Route description [ edit ]
It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history. The land was originally a Revolutionary War land grant of 968 acres given to John Topp in 1788, [1] eight years before Tennessee became a US state. In 1836 it became known as "Melrose" when US Senator Alexander Barrow purchased it and built a fine mansion with that name.
It is named in honor of David Crockett (1786–1836), frontier humorist, soldier, Tennessee state legislator and U.S. congressman, and defender of the Alamo. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In 1876, in what apparently was a political rivalry gone bad, [ 6 ] Crockett County Sheriff R. G. Harris and 19 other unidentified men removed four men from the county jail and ...
In Georgia, US 27 has been designated the Martha Berry Highway by the Georgia State Legislature. It was named after Martha Berry, founder of Berry College in Rome.US 27 is a designated Governor's Road Improvement Program (GRIP) developmental highway corridor which will eventually be widened to four lanes (mostly divided) from the Florida state line to the Tennessee state line.
In Tennessee, U.S. Route 412 (US 412) stretches for 181.93 miles (292.79 km) through the farmland of West Tennessee and the hills of Middle Tennessee, starting at the Missouri state line (on I-155 at the Mississippi River) near Dyersburg and running to an interchange between I-65 and SR 99 in Columbia. [1] [2]
Route map U.S. Route 31E. US 31E highlighted in red ... The road is named for former Tennessee governor Buford Ellington, who served two non-consecutive terms from ...
Maury City is named for congressman and Tennessee state legislator Abram Poindexter Maury. The town was first settled in 1876 in accordance with some railroad speculation. However, though rails were laid and at least one train ran, the railroad never materialized. The town was formally established in 1906 and received its charter in 1915. [5]