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Alpha is a
neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...
in Morristown,
Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
, United States. It is located at and around the junction of
U.S. Route 11E U.S. Route 11E (US 11E) is a divided highway of US 11 in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia. The United States Numbered Highway, which is complemented by US 11W to the north and west, runs from US 11, US  ...
and
Tennessee State Route 160 State Route 160 (SR 160) is a state highway in East Tennessee that has both four-lane Limited-access road, expressway and two-lane Collector road, rural collector sections. It serves as an arterial bypass route of U.S. Route 11E, US 11E/Tennesse ...
between Morristown and
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. It was formerly 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 ...
before being annexed into the city of Morristown.


History

A post office called Alpha was established in 1877, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1928.


Education

Alpha is home to Alpha Elementary School which is a part of the Hamblen County Board of Education.


References

Morristown metropolitan area, Tennessee Neighborhoods in Tennessee {{HamblenCountyTN-geo-stub