Middle Tennessee

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About Middle Tennessee

The people, places, and lifestyle of Middle Tennessee. Post pics of cities, towns, landscapes, events, state parks, natural areas, historic sites, town squares, small towns, country scenes, ect..........Pics must be Middle Tennessee

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CITIES of MIDDLE TN

Allardt Clarksville cornersville Franklin Lancaster Mount Pleasant Smyrna
Allons Clifton Gallatin Lawrenceburg Mulberry Springfield
Altamont College Grove Goodlettsville Lebanon Murfreesboro Tullahoma Loretto
Antioch Columbia Gordonsville Lewisburg Nashville Watertown
Ashland City Cookeville Greenbrier Livingston New Johnsonville Waverly
Baxter Culleoka Hampshire Lynchburg Nolensville Waynesboro
Bell Buckle Decherd Hartsville Madison Normandy White House
Belvidere Dickson Hendersonville Manchester Only Whites Creek
Brentwood Chapel Hill Dover Hermitage McMinnville Pelham Winchester
Bumpus Mills Erin Hurricane Mills Millersville Portland
Byrdstown Estill Springs Jamestown Monteagle Pulaski
Castalian Springs Ethridge Joelton Monterey Sewanee
Celina Fairview Kingston Springs Morrison Shelbyville
Centerville Fayetteville La Vergne Mount Juliet Smithville Shelbyville Tennessee lynnville

Counties

Middle Counties DeKalb Dickson Lincoln Macon Warren Robertson
Grundy Montgomery Williamson Lawrence Rutherford Humphreys
Cheatham Maury Jackson Wilson Davidson Franklin
Pickett Putnam Sumner Marshall Giles Cannon
Smith Stewart Trousdale Overton Bedford
Clay Sequatchie Lewis Moore White
Hickman Houston Fentress Coffee Van Buren
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Middle Tennessee
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Middle Tennessee is a distinct portion of the state of Tennessee, delineated according to law as well as custom. Middle Tennessee consists of that portion of the state east of the Tennessee River's western crossing of the state (in which it flows northward back into Tennessee after having flowed through northern Alabama) and west of the dividing line between the Eastern and Central time zones. The only exceptions to this rule are that Hardin County, which is located on both sides of the Tennessee River, is considered to be entirely in West Tennessee and that Bledsoe, Cumberland, Marion and Sequatchie counties are considered to be in East Tennessee despite lying in the Central Time Zone.

Middle Tennessee is known for its rolling hills and fertile stream valleys, as well as for its major city, Nashville, which is the state capital. Other sizeable cities in Middle Tennessee include Clarksville and Murfreesboro. Politically, it has provided the Democratic Party with some of its leading statesmen, and still is largely inclined toward it, although an increasing Republican trend has been seen in the Nashville suburbs. Geographically it is composed predominantly of the Nashville Basin and the Highland Rim, although the western portion of the Cumberland Plateau also extends into Middle Tennessee.

Middle Tennessee also has an abundance of institutions of higher learning--most notably Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb and Tennessee State universities in Nashville and Tennessee Tech in Cookeville. Other prominent universities are Austin Peay State University in Clarksville and the University of the South in Sewanee. Middle Tennessee is also home to the state's second largest institution of higher learning, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.

Unlike the geographic designations of regions of most U.S. states, the term Middle Tennessee has legal as well as socioeconomic meaning. Middle Tennessee, along with West Tennessee and East Tennessee, comprises one of the state's three Grand Divisions. According to the Tennessee State Constitution, no more than two of the state supreme court's five justices can come from any one Grand Division. A similar rule applies to certain other commissions and boards as well, to prevent them from showing a geographic bias.

Adams
Ashland City
Bell Buckle
Burns
Byrdstown
Carthage
Celina
Centerville
Chapel Hill
Clarksville
Clifton
College Grove
Columbia
Cookeville
Cowan
Cross Plains
Crossville
Dickson
Dover
Ethridge
Fayetteville
Franklin
Gainesboro
Gallatin
Goodlettsville
Hartsville
Hendersonville
Hermitage
Hohenwald
Hurricane Mills
Jamestown
Kingston Springs
Lafayette

Lawrenceburg
Lebanon
Lewisburg
Linden
Livingston
Loretto
Lynchburg
Manchester
McMinnville
Monterey
Mt. Juliet
Murfreesboro
Nashville
New Johnsonville
Pall Mall
Portland
Pulaski
Red Boiling Springs
Rock Island
Sewanee
Shelbyville
Smithville
Smyrna
Sparta
Spencer
Springfield
Tullahoma
Watertown
Waynesboro
Westmoreland
White House
Winchester
Woodbury