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West of Decatur on State Route 30 at the Tennessee River 35°32′16″N 84°52′41″W / 35.537778°N 84.878056°W / 35.537778; -84.878056 ( Hastings-Locke Decatur
St. James's (also written as Saint James's) is a historical novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1844. It describes the events surrounding the end of Queen Anne's reign and the dispute between the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough with two Tories for influence over the queen.
(The section from Decatur eastward was finished in 2008.) State Route 68 - A north–south main highway for the county, that actually runs east/west through the northern county. This highway crosses the Tennessee River at Watts Bar Dam. State Route 60 - A principal north–south highway forming the southern border of the county.
Decatur is located at (35.518871, -84.793201 The town is situated at the western base of No Pone Ridge, an elongate ridge characteristic of the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley Province . Just west of Decatur, the Tennessee River flows around a blunt peninsula known as Armstrong Bend.
Decatur County – like all of rural Tennessee – is a Republican stronghold. The last Democrat to carry this county was Al Gore in 2000, and even before the collapse of traditional rural Democratic support after Bill Clinton the county had a sizeable Unionist population that caused it to vote Republican several times during the “System of 1896
Nov. 18—Men's and women's clothing stores, a wings restaurant and physical therapy clinic are among the new businesses to open in Decatur recently while two others are working toward an opening ...
The White Plains plantation was established in 1809 by William Quarles (1752–1814), a Revolutionary War veteran who had migrated to the area from Virginia. Quarles' grandson, Stephan Decatur Burton (1813–1892), built the White Plains house sometime around 1848, and in the late 1950s Harvey Draper bought the house and made numerous renovations.
They had been known to have set their heart on outdoorsy prep school Lambrook, with its 52 acres of grounds, for their youngsters where fees will cost William and Kate in excess of £50,000 a year.