Shackle Island is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

and

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in Sumner County,

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, United States. Its population was 2,844 as of the 2010 census According to rootsweb.com, the name Shackle Island became official when the post office recognized it in 1900. According to an article published in The Nashville scene titled, Shackle Island: An Investigative Report. "Shackle Island, Tennessee got its name from a small shack on an island in a creek where illegal whiskey was sold, not because it is an actual island People would say "Let's go to the shack on the island for a drink" and eventually the name became Shackle Island", The same article states that research done at the Tennessee State Library and Archives turned up an interesting letter from Dr. Joshua Franklin to Daniel Montgomery in the letter the Doctor orders a $1.00 worth of whiskey from the distillery so he could make medicine. The distillery was run by a man named Daniel Montgomery "Daniel Montgomery was born in 1789 in Sumner County and he "engaged in extensive farming operations and operated a grist mill, a sawmill, and a whiskey distillery at Shackle Island in Sumner County." In 1855, he "died at Shackle Island, buried in Beech Cemetery." (Betsy Phillips, Jan 18, 2016)

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Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,331 people, 1,042 households, and 916 families residing in the CDP.

Geography

Shackle Island is located in the southwestern portion of Sumner County at the crossroad intersection of Tennessee State Routes 174 and

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, about north of Hendersonville. Census-designated places in Sumner County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{SumnerCountyTN-geo-stub