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State Route 108 (SR 108) is a
SR 108 passes through the city for approximately , Before entering Coalmont, where it has an intersection with SR 56 for the first time. Approximately past the SR 56 intersection, it leaves Coalmont and enters rural terrain again, where it comes to an intersection and becomes concurrent with SR 50 and turns back north on SR 50 east. After approximately of mostly wooded terrain, the highway enters Altamont, where they continue into downtown and come to a second intersection with SR 56, where SR 50 ends and SR 108 becomes concurrent with SR 56 for a mere , where it becomes a secondary highway, before splitting from SR 56 and turning west, leaving Altamont. Just after leaving Altamont, it turns back north and continues on a northerly track through a mix of hills and farmland until it crosses into
state highway
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in Southeastern
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and Eastern Middle Tennessee
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. It connects SR 28 in Whitwell to SR 55 Bus/ SR 56/ SR 380 in McMinnville.
Route description
Marion County
SR 108 begins as a primary highway in Marion County at an intersection with SR 28 in Whitwell. It travels to the north as Main Street into downtown and then turns northeast as Cumberland Drive and leaves Whitwell. It then ascends to the top of theCumberland Plateau
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and passes through primarily rural
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terrain, where it passes through Griffith Creek, until it reaches Grundy County.
Grundy County
SR 108 continues north through rural terrain until it enters the town ofPalmer
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and passes through its downtown area. It then comes to an intersection with SR 399, where it enters Gruetli-Laager.
SR 108 passes through the city for approximately , Before entering Coalmont, where it has an intersection with SR 56 for the first time. Approximately past the SR 56 intersection, it leaves Coalmont and enters rural terrain again, where it comes to an intersection and becomes concurrent with SR 50 and turns back north on SR 50 east. After approximately of mostly wooded terrain, the highway enters Altamont, where they continue into downtown and come to a second intersection with SR 56, where SR 50 ends and SR 108 becomes concurrent with SR 56 for a mere , where it becomes a secondary highway, before splitting from SR 56 and turning west, leaving Altamont. Just after leaving Altamont, it turns back north and continues on a northerly track through a mix of hills and farmland until it crosses into Warren County Warren County is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. Some are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War:
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.
Warren County
SR 108 then passes through farmland until it entersViola
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, where it intersects and becomes concurrent with SR 127. SR 108 and SR 127 stay merged for , where they pass through downtown before leaving Viola and having an intersection with SR 287, to a y-intersection where SR 108 turns north and SR 127 continues northeast. SR 108 then enters McMinnville city and continues north until it intersects SR 55 Bus. It then travels concurrently with SR 55 Bus. and goes northeast through a couple of neighborhoods before crossing the Barren Fork River
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and enter downtown, where SR 108 meets its northern terminus at SR 56 and SR 380.
Major intersections
See also
* *References
External links
* {{Commons category-inline108 108 may refer to:
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Transportation in Marion County, Tennessee
Transportation in Grundy County, Tennessee
Transportation in Warren County, Tennessee