Salem 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
Rutherford County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Tennessee
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.
History
Salem was laid out on the Salem and Eagleville Pike. A post office called Salem Cross Roads was established in 1839, and closed in 1840.
However, in the 1800s to the mid-1900s or so, there was a place called spoken of at the Salem community in or near Birchwood, Tennessee.
References
Unincorporated communities in Rutherford County, Tennessee
Unincorporated communities in Tennessee
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