Nutbush (Tennessee)
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| State : | United States |
| State : | Tennessee |
| County : | Haywood County |
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 42 ′ N , 89 ° 24 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 259 (as of: 2000) |
| Height : | 109 m |
| Postal code : | 38063 |
| Area code : | +1 731 |
| FIPS : | 47-1296030 |
| GNIS ID : | 1296030 |
Nutbush is a settlement on community-free area ( Unincorporated community ) in Haywood County in western US -amerikanischen state of Tennessee .
Founded in the early 19th century, Nutbush is now home to two early American churches: Woodlawn Baptist Church and Trinity United Methodist Church . On the Trinity Cemetery have more than 50 fallen soldiers from the Civil War found their final resting place.
The dominant source of income of the place is the cultivation of cotton . Then and now, agriculture has focused on the cultivation of cotton. Today the cotton is processed in a cotton processing plant in the municipality.
Nutbush is known as the home of singer Tina Turner , who grew up here with her grandmother. In the song Nutbush City Limits , she describes the place. The house Tina Turner lived in no longer exists.
geography
Nutbush is at the geographic position 35.70 ° North and 89.41 ° West. The elevation is 119 m (average elevation for Haywood County ). Cotton fields and hills dominate the landscape. Nutbush is located on the south-eastern edge of the New Madrid Earthquake Zone, an area with a high earthquake risk.
Mail and phone
The Nutbush zip code is 38063 ( Ripley, Tennessee ) and the area code is 731.
history
The Nutbush Ward was founded in the early 19th century by settlers from Virginia and North Carolina traveling westward. Details of these first settlers in the area are not known.
Trinity United Methodist Church was founded in 1822. More than 50 soldiers from both sides who died in the US Civil War were buried in Trinity Cemetery, which is part of the church. Trinity Cemetery is mentioned as one of the best preserved cemeteries in the county.
In 1881 a US post office was opened in Nutbush, which was closed again in 1905.
Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery (also known as Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church ) was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical significance in 1996.
population
In 2000 there were 259 people in the Nutbush Constituency (TN 3976). Of these, 215 were white (83.01%), 42 were black (16.22%) and 2 had a different parentage (0.77%). In the year of data collection, 190 people (73.36%) were 18 years of age or older.
economy
The main source of income for the community is agriculture (especially cotton ).
After the abolition of slavery , sharecropping became the main source of income for the poorer families in the area. In particular, farmers used the land of a large landowner for the cultivation of cotton, in return the landowner received a share of the harvest of the respective year. Modern machines such as the cotton picker have made this method superfluous over time, as they have gradually taken over the manual work. Today a cotton processing plant is the only agricultural industry in the community.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) operates a power plant in Nutbush on Lagoon Creek . The power plant uses eight gas turbines to generate electricity for the area in times of high load .
traffic
State Highway 19 runs through the village . The section between Brownsville and Nutbush was renamed Tina Turner Highway in 2001 .
Personalities
- Tina Turner (* 1939), singer (rock music)
Web links
- Photo documentation of Nutbush ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from Sharon Norris, historian and distant relative of Tina Turner
- ↑ http://terraserver-usa.com/ ( Memento from January 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) TerraServer
- ↑ a b http://www.downloadzipcode.com/ ( Memento from December 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) DownloadZIPcode
- ↑ http://www.bellsouth.com/ BellSouth
- ↑ a b http://www.rootsweb.com/ Rootsweb - Haywood County (Tennessee)
- ↑ http://www.state.tn.us/TSLA/ Tennessee State Library and Archives
- ↑ http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ National Register of Historic Places
- ↑ http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us/ Auditor of the state of Tennessee
- ↑ http://www.continentalconst.com/ Continental Construction, Co., Inc.
- ↑ http://www.atlaspower.com/ AtlasPower, Inc.