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Tennessee State Route 419
State Route 419 (SR 419), also known as Pigeon Ridge Road, is a 4.0 mile long north-south state highway in Cumberland County, Tennessee. It serves as the primary road in and out of Cumberland Mountain State Park. Even though it is signed north-south, SR 419 primarily goes in an east-west direction. Route description SR 419 begins in the Cumberland Homesteads, Tennessee, Cumberland Homesteads community at an intersection with U.S. Route 127 in Tennessee, US 127/Tennessee State Route 28, SR 28. It immediately enters Cumberland Mountain State Park and winds its way west through the park, crossing atop the Byrd Creek Dam along the way. The highway then leaves the park and winds its way west through farmland and rural areas to come to an end just south of Crossville, Tennessee, Crossville at an intersection with Tennessee State Route 101, SR 101. The entire route of SR 419 is a two-lane highway and lies atop the Cumberland Plateau. Major intersections References {{Reflist St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland Homesteads, Tennessee
Cumberland Homesteads is a community located in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States. Established by the New Deal-era Subsistence Homesteads Division, Division of Subsistence Homesteads in 1934, the community was envisioned by federal planners as a model of cooperative living for the region's distressed farmers, coal miners, and factory workers. While the cooperative experiment failed and the federal government withdrew from the project in the 1940s, the Homesteads community nevertheless survived. In 1988, several hundred of the community's original houses and other buildings, which are characterized by the native "crab orchard" sandstone used in their construction, were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district. By the early 1930s, decades of Land degradation, poor farming practices had rendered many of the small farms in East Tennessee untenable, and the Great Depression had left thousands of coal miners and other industrial workers unemploy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
