Lutts is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Wayne County,

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, United States. It is also known as "Pinhook." Lutts is served by the Lutts

Volunteer Fire Department A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respo ...

and Lutts

Community Center A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may be open for the whole community or for a sp ...

. The Pinhook School formerly operated in Lutts.

Economy

The

economy An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

of Lutts is mainly

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

. However, there is a growing

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industry that has been established in the area.

History

Little is known about origins except for the community of Pinhook which used to be the entire eastern section of the town.

Tornado

On the evening of December 23, 2015, an EF-3

tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the ...

destroyed over 20 buildings in the Lutts community, including Lutts United Methodist Church and the

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. Postal operations are temporarily relocated to the office in nearby

Collinwood, Tennessee Collinwood is a city in Wayne County, Tennessee, Wayne County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 982 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, down from 1,024 in 2000. History Collinwood was established in 1913 as a stop on the ...

. The Methodist Church will be temporarily relocated to the fire hall.WSMV.com, retrieved Dec. 24, 2015

Highways

Tennessee State Route 203 State Route 203 (SR 203) is a state highway in Tennessee that runs in an east-to-west direction from the city of Collinwood, in Wayne County to the city of Savannah in Hardin County. The highway lies both in Middle and West Tennessee.

Churches in or near Lutts

*Bevis

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*Johnson's Chapel Freewill Baptist Church *Lutts

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*Lutts

United Methodist Church The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant Christian denomination, denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was ...

*Martin's Mills Church of Christ *Mt. Hope Church of Christ *Second Creek Church of Christ *Schlomo Beth Israel Synagogue *State Line Church of Christ *Wayland Springs United Methodist Church

Nearby cities and communities

Collinwood Collinwood is a historical area in the northeast part of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a village in Euclid Township, it was annexed by the city in 1910. Collinwood grew around the rail yards of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (n ...

(

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

) * Waynesboro (city) *

Savannah A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach th ...

(city) * Cypress Inn (

) *

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(unincorporated community) * Cromwell Crossroads (unincorporated community) * Martin's Mills (unincorporated community)

References

External links

Pinhook School Class Picnic 1951
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