The Wartrace Historic District is an area on the

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. It covers an area in downtown

Wartrace, Tennessee Wartrace is a town in Bedford County, Tennessee. The population was 653 at the 2020 census. It is located northeast of Shelbyville. The downtown area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wartrace Historic District. Wartr ...

ranging roughly from Spring Street, from Coffey to Main Streets, from Vine Street from Broad to McKinley Streets, and Knob Circle Road from Main to McKinley Streets.

Buildings within the district

Some notable structures within the district include Bethsalem Community Chapel, the Wartrace General Store, and the Caboose Museum, which houses railroad relics. Perfection Leather, a business in operation since the early 1900s, is known for making the

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s worn by the first three national champion

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s. It also manufactured the

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worn by Bonnie Blue Butler's

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in the 1939 film ''

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''. A structure included in the district that has earned its own NRHP designation is the Walking Horse Hotel. Architecture within the district encompasses the Queen Anne, Italianate, and Bungalow styles.

References

{{reflist Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Bedford County, Tennessee Wartrace, Tennessee National Register of Historic Places listings in Bedford County, Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Bedford County, Tennessee