Nutbush (Tennessee)
Haywood County
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Nutbush (Tennessee ) is a settlement on municipal Wi area ( UNINCORPORATE community) in Haywood County in the western part of the U.S. 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 more than 50 fallen soldiers have found the American Civil War are buried.
The dominant source of income of the village is the planting of cotton. Past and today agriculture is focused on the cultivation of cotton. Today, the cotton is processed in a cotton processing plant in the community.
Nutbush is best known as the home of singer Tina Turner, who was born here in 1939. In the song Nutbush City Limits describing the place where she grew up.
Geography
Nutbush is located on the geographical position 35.70 ° North and 89.41 ° West.
The height above sea level is 119 m ( average height of the district of Haywood County).
Cotton fields and hills dominate the landscape.
Nutbush is located on the south- eastern edge of the New Madrid seismic zone, an area of high seismic risk.
Post and Telephone
The zip code of Nutbush is 38063 ( Ripley, Tennessee) and the telephone prefix is 731
History
The community Nutbush was founded in the early 19th century by settlers from Virginia and North Carolina, who traveled 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 Civil War in the USA, were buried in the Trinity Cemetery belonging to the Church. The Trinity Cemetery is mentioned as one of the best-preserved graveyards of the governmental district.
1881 U.S. Post Office was opened in Nutbush, which was closed in 1905.
Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery (also known as Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church ) was the National Register of Historic Places added in 1996 for its historical significance.
Population
In 2000 259 people lived in the constituency Nutbush (TN 3976 ). Of these, 215 were white ( 83.01 % ), 42 black ( 16.22 %) and 2 had a different ancestry ( 0.77 %). In the year of data collection were 190 persons ( 73.36 %) 18 years or older.
Economy
The main source of income of the community is agriculture (especially cotton).
After the abolition of slavery, sharecropping was the primary means of income generation for the poorest families in the area. In particular, for the cultivation of cotton farmers used land a landowner, in return, the landowners received a share of the harvest of each year. Modern machines like the cotton pickers have this method made redundant over time, as they have gradually taken over by the hand. Today a cotton - processing operation is the only agricultural industry in the community.
Am Lagoon Creek, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA ) in Nutbush operates a power plant. From eight gas turbines, the power plant generates electricity for the area in times of high load.
Personalities
Daughters and sons:
- Tina Turner ( born 1939 ), singer ( Rock Music )
Trivia
- After her birth in 1939, singer Tina Turner grew up with her grandmother in Nutbush. The house where Tina Turner grew up, no longer exists.
- Tina Turner's song Nutbush City Limits (1973, produced by Ike Turner) describes the place where she grew up.
- The dance is danced to the song Nutbush The Nutbush City Limits.
- In 2001, a part of the Tennessee State Highway (State Highway 19 ) was renamed between Brownsville and Nutbush in Tina Turner Highway.