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Spencer is named after Thomas Sharp Spencer (d. 1794), a long hunter who passed through the Van Buren County area in the mid-18th century. The town was established in 1850 and incorporated in 1909. [1] In 1942, Spencer elected a full slate of women officials. [7] Burritt College was located in Spencer from 1848 until its closure in 1939. [1]
State Route 284 (SR 284) is a 15.3-mile-long (24.6 km) state highway in Van Buren County in the central portion and in Bledsoe County in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It serves as a connector for SR 111 and SR 30 to Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park .
SR 111 south – Spencer: Eastern end of SR 111 conurrency: Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park: SR 30 west – Spencer: Western end of SR 30 concurrency: SR 30 east – Pikeville: Eastern terminus of SR 30 concurrency: Bledsoe SR 301 north – Taft Youth Center: Southern terminus of SR 301 27.4: 44.1: SR 101 – Spencer, Pikeville, Crossville ...
Fall Creek Falls Hills near Spencer. Big Bone Cave is located in the northwest corner of Van Buren County. It is one of the best-known and most historic caverns in Tennessee. It was mined by prehistoric Indians for gypsum and salts and was the site of the largest saltpeter mine in Tennessee during the War of 1812 and again during the American ...
Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) covers about 2,500 acres between Pikeville and Spencer. The prison is a level 3 facility which houses about 2,539 offenders in three separate facilities: Site 1; Site 2 (formerly Southeast Tennessee State Regional Correctional Facility); and Unit 28 (houses female offenders.) [16]
A Tennessee transportation official says there is no date set for I-40 to reopen, despite a Google Maps notification saying September 2025. ... State routes in Tennessee begin to reopen.
Continuing east beyond Spencer, SR 30 descends more than 900 feet (270 m) from the edge of the plateau into the Dry Fork Gulf. [4] This area marks the outer reaches of Fall Creek Falls State Park . At the base of the valley, SR 30 crosses Cane Creek and joins SR 285 , which approaches from further down the valley in the direction of Doyle .
Map showing the west end of SR 1 in Memphis. State Route 1 (SR 1), known as the Memphis to Bristol Highway, is a 538.8-mile-long (867.1 km) mostly-unsigned state highway in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from the Arkansas state line at Memphis in the southwest corner of the state to Bristol in the northeast part.