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Cookeville is the Upper Cumberland region's largest city and as such is known as the "Hub of the Upper Cumberlands". [32] It is at the center of the labor market area consisting of Putnam , Cumberland , DeKalb , Jackson , Overton , Smith , and White Counties, with a civilian labor force in 2013 of 103,500 jobs (roughly one-third of which are in ...
Cumberland River: Hydroelectric 100 United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1957 Pickwick Dam: Tennessee River: Hydroelectric 229 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1938 Raccoon Mountain Facility: Tennessee River: Pumped storage hydro: 1,652 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1978 South Holston Dam: Holston River: Hydroelectric 44 Tennessee Valley Authority ...
Livingston is a town in Overton County, Tennessee, United States, and serves as the county seat.The population was 3,905 at the 2020 census and 4,058 at the 2010 census. The current mayor, Lori Elder Burnette , Livingston's first female mayor, began serving her mayoral position on August 29th, 20
Gainesboro (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a town in and the county seat of Jackson County, Tennessee, United States. [7] The population was 920 at the 2020 census . Gainesboro is part of the Cookeville, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area .
SR 262 east (Gladdice Highway) – Gainesboro: Eastern end of SR 262 concurrency; SR 85 becomes secondary route 24.7: 39.8: SR 56 north / SR 135 north (Jennings Creek Highway) – Whitleyville, Red Boiling Springs: Western end of concurrency with SR 56 and SR 135 28.4: 45.7: Gainesboro bridge over Cumberland River: Gainesboro: 28.6: 46.0
Cumberland County will get two electric school buses as part of its share in a federal effort to roll out 3,400 “clean school buses” across the country, according to a news release from Gov ...
In the 1790s, an Army outpost named Fort Blount was built 10 miles (16 km) west of Gainesboro on the Cumberland River, in what is now western Jackson County. Fort Blount was an important stop for travelers on Avery's Trace .
The Cumberland Plateau is located in the eastern part of the region. Culturally, Middle Tennessee is considered part of the Upland South . [ 2 ] Commodity crops such as cotton and tobacco were cultivated by migrant settlers in the region in the antebellum era , who were largely dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans .