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Byrdstown is located at (36.572585, -85.137088 The town is situated in a hilly area on the Highland Rim, a few miles south of the Kentucky state line. Byrdstown lies south of the Wolf River, north of the Obey River, and east of Dale Hollow Lake, where the two rivers converge.
The Pickett County Courthouse is a historic building in Byrdstown, Tennessee, U.S.. It serves as the courthouse for Pickett County, Tennessee. There have been two courthouses for Pickett County. The first one, completed in 1890, burned down in 1934. The second and current one was built with Crab Orchard stone in 1935. [2]
Its county seat is Byrdstown. [3] The city of Byrdstown and the Kentucky town of Albany, 11 miles (18 km) to the northeast, are positioned between two Army Corps of Engineers lakes: Dale Hollow Lake, mainly in Tennessee, and Lake Cumberland, in Kentucky. The area is known as "Twin Lakes" and Byrdstown is noted as "The Gateway To Dale Hollow Lake".
Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park is situated along the Highland Rim, a barren and hilly area where the Cumberland Plateau descends westward into the Central Basin. The site is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the Wolf River, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the Obey River, and 7 miles (11 km) east of the confluence of these two rivers at Dale Hollow Lake.
Static is located at a crossroads intersection involving U.S. Route 127 (US 127, accompanied by the unsigned SR 28 on the Tennessee side), Tennessee State Route 111 (SR 111; formerly SR 42), and Kentucky Route 1076 (KY 1076). [6] [7] Its coordinates are 36°37′19″N latitude, and 85°5′6″W longitude.
As a result, the quickest way to get from Celina to Byrdstown is to drive a route from the two cities via Livingston, in Overton County using State Routes 52 and 111. Parts of SR 325 in downtown Byrdstown was also an original alignment of SR 42 (now SR 111) until that route was realigned to its current path into and around the city.
The Wolf River is a 40.3-mile-long (64.9 km) [2] river in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky [3] that rises at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in Fentress County, Tennessee and flows westward for several miles before becoming part of Dale Hollow Lake. The river is part of the Cumberland River drainage basin in Middle Tennessee and ...
In Tennessee, Prehistoric is generally defined as the time between the appearance of the first people in the region (c. 12,000 BC) and the arrival of the first European explorers (c. 1540 AD). The Historic period begins after the arrival of those Europeans and continues to the present.