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Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States [8] and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidistantly between the major cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga. [9]
It is located in East Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,794. The county has a total area of 432 square miles (1,120 km 2). Most of the county is within the Ridge and Valley area of the Appalachian Mountains. Its county seat is Athens. McMinn County, along with Meigs County comprises the Athens, TN Micropolitan Statistical ...
Location of McMinn County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in McMinn County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of predatory policing, police brutality , political corruption , and voter ...
First United Presbyterian Church is a historic African-American church at 321 N. Jackson Street in Athens, Tennessee.. The church was established in 1889 or 1890 as a mission church, led by minister Jacob L. Cook. [2] Cook, a native of Athens and the son of former slaves, had attended Fisk University as a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, then went on to graduate from Knoxville College.
Trinity United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1824-5 as the Methodist Episcopal Church of Athens. Its first meeting house was a structure of hewn logs built by slaves. It stood at the southwest corner of West Washington and Church Streets in Athens.
The combined statistical area consists of three metropolitan statistical areas – Chattanooga, Cleveland, and Dalton – as well as the Athens, Scottsboro, and Summerville micropolitan statistical areas. At the 2023 estimate, the CSA had a population of 1,003,363.
A 1999 Tennessee state study of Tennessee schools found that McMinn County Schools teacher salaries were 110% of the state median (and Athens City teacher salaries were 122% of the state median), on a Tennessee Teacher Cost Index basis, ranking it in the top 17% in the state. [15] Parkinson became the head of the school system in 2018. [6]