Robbins is an
unincorporated community and
census-designated place (CDP) in
Scott County,
Tennessee.
As of the
2010 census, its population is 287.
It is concentrated along
U.S. Route 27
U.S. Route 27 (US 27) is a north–south United States Highway in the southern and midwestern United States. The southern terminus is at US 1 in Miami, Florida. The northern terminus is at Interstate 69 (I-69) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. F ...
between
Huntsville and
Elgin
Elgin may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Elgin County, Ontario
* Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
* Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario ...
, in Tennessee's
Cumberland Plateau
The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. The terms "Alle ...
region. The community is served by Robbins Elementary School. It is also home to
Barton Chapel
Barton Chapel Congregational Church is a historic church in Robbins, Tennessee. The church building on U.S. Highway 27, built in 1926, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Congregational church in Robbins was estab ...
, a 1920s-era
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
church designed by noted architectural firm,
Barber and McMurry.
The community is probably named for a family that lived in the vicinity when a post office was established in 1880.
[Larry Miller, ]
Tennessee Place Names
' (Indiana University Press, 2001), p. 178.
Demographics
Notable people
*
Bruce Fairchild Barton, advertising executive who represented New York in the
United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1940
*
Harry C. Stonecipher, former president and CEO of
McDonnell Douglas and
Boeing
References
External links
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Census-designated places in Scott County, Tennessee
Census-designated places in Tennessee
Unincorporated communities in Tennessee
Unincorporated communities in Scott County, Tennessee