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Alabama State Route 65
State Route 65 (SR 65) is a state highway in western Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with U.S. Route 72 (US 72) at Paint Rock. The northern terminus of the highway is at the Tennessee state line, north of Francisco. North of the state line, the highway continues as Tennessee State Route 97 (SR 97). Route description SR 65 and Tennessee State Route 97 serve as a connecting route between US 72 in northern Alabama and US 64 in Franklin County, Tennessee. From SR 65's southern terminus, the highway is aligned along a two-lane road with numerous curves as it travels through the mountainous regions of northeastern Alabama and southern Tennessee. North of Paint Rock, SR 65 travels through the unincorporated communities of Garth, Trenton, Hollytree, Princeton, Swaim, and Francisco, before it crosses into Tennessee. The route is notable because it t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate Highway
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System (United States), National Highway System in the United States. The system extends throughout the contiguous United States and has routes in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. In the 20th century, the United States Congress began funding roadways through the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, and started an effort to construct a national road grid with the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921. In 1926, the United States Numbered Highway System was established, creating the first national road numbering system for cross-country travel. The roads were funded and maintained by U.S. states, and there were few national standards for road design. United States Numbered Highways ranged from two-lane country roads to multi-lane free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin County, Tennessee
Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located on the eastern boundary of Middle Tennessee in the southern part of the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,774. Its county seat is Winchester. Franklin County was formerly part of the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, it was removed in 2023 and is part of the Winchester Micropolitan Statistical Area. History White settlement began around 1800, and the county was formally organized in 1807 and named for Benjamin Franklin.John Abernathy Smith,Franklin County" ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved: June 28, 2013. During the next several decades, the size of the county was reduced several times by reorganizations which created the neighboring counties of Coffee County, Moore County, and Grundy County. One of the most notable early settlers was frontiersman Davy Crockett, who came about 1812 but is not thought to have remained long. The Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama State Route 2
U.S. Route 72 (US 72) is an east–west United States highway that travels for from southwestern Tennessee, throughout North Mississippi, North Alabama, and southeastern Tennessee. The highway's western terminus is in Memphis, Tennessee and its eastern terminus is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chattanooga. It is the only U.S. Highway to begin and end in the same state, yet pass through other states in between. Prior to the U.S. Highway system signage being posted in 1926, the entire route was part of the Lee Highway. Route description The highway passes through Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Most of the original eastern and western portions of the route through roughly follows the path of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, a railroad that predated the American Civil War and now operated by Norfolk Southern Railway as their Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis-Chattanooga, Tennessee mainline. U.S. Route 72 Alternate, US 72 Alt. follows the Memphis and Charleston route thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curly Putman
Claude "Curly" Putman Jr. (November 20, 1930 – October 30, 2016) was an American songwriter. Born in Princeton, Alabama, his greatest success was "Green, Green Grass of Home" (1964, sung by Porter Wagoner), which was covered by Roger Miller, Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, Don Williams, Johnny Paycheck, Burl Ives, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Roberto Leal (singer), Roberto Leal, Dean Martin, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Joe Tex, Nana Mouskouri, Charley Pride, and Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones. Among other songs he wrote were "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today". Biography Putman was the son of a sawmill worker. He joined the Navy and spent four years on the aircraft carrier . He married Bernice Soon in 1956. Putman penned his first hit, "Green, Green Grass of Home", when working in Nashville plugging songs for Tree Records. Death Putman died of congestive heart failure and kidney failure at hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland Plateau
The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. The terms " Allegheny Plateau" and the "Cumberland Plateau" both refer to the dissected plateau lands lying west of the main Appalachian Mountains. The terms stem from historical usage rather than geological difference, so there is no strict dividing line between the two. Two major rivers share the names of the plateaus, with the Allegheny River rising in the Allegheny Plateau and the Cumberland River rising in the Cumberland Plateau in Harlan County, Kentucky. Geography The Cumberland Plateau is a deeply dissected plateau, with topographic relief commonly of about , and frequent sandstone outcroppings and bluffs. At Kentucky's Pottsville Escarpment, which is the transition from the Cumberland Plateau to the Bluegrass in the north and the Penny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton, Alabama
Princeton is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Princeton is located on Alabama State Route 65 in the upper Paint Rock River, Paint Rock Valley. Skyline, Alabama, Skyline lies just over miles to the east atop the Cumberland Plateau, and the Alabama–Tennessee state line passes several miles to the north. Princeton has a post office with ZIP code 35766. Notable people * Henry Hollis Horton, Governor of Tennessee from 1927 to 1933 * Curly Putman, country music songwriter References External links * Unincorporated communities in Jackson County, Alabama Unincorporated communities in Alabama {{JacksonCountyAL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollytree, Alabama
Hollytree is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. It is located on Alabama State Route 65, northeast of Gurley in the Paint Rock Valley. Hollytree has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ... with ZIP code 35751. References Unincorporated communities in Jackson County, Alabama Unincorporated communities in Alabama {{JacksonCountyAL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trenton, Alabama
Trenton is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. It is located on Alabama State Route 65, east-northeast of Gurley in the Paint Rock Valley. Trenton had a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ... until it closed on November 5, 2011; it still has its own ZIP code, 35774. References External links * Unincorporated communities in Jackson County, Alabama Unincorporated communities in Alabama {{JacksonCountyAL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connector (road)
A connector is a highway or freeway road in the United States that connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange (road), interchange such as the MacArthur Maze or a longer roadway such as the Interstate 635 (Kansas–Missouri), Interstate 635. A connector route is a type of special route or supplemental route in the United States that serves as a connector, connecting one route to a more prominent route. Connector routes are found among the United States Numbered Highways and among some state route systems like Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, Michigan and List of Nebraska Connecting Link, Spur, and Recreation Highways, Nebraska. Connector routes can also be designated as a routing between two numbered highways. Examples include: * M-44 (Michigan highway), Connector M-44, which runs along Plainfield Avenue between Interstate 96 and M-44 (Michigan highway), M-44 north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. * Pearl Harbor Memorial Turnpike Extension (also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paint Rock, Alabama
Paint Rock is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, along the Paint Rock River, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. It was incorporated in July 1894.History of the Town of Paint Rock, Alabama ," ''Paint Rock News'', 2010. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 210, up from 185 in 2000. This was the first time in 100 years it increased in population. Out of 13 incorporated communities in Jackson County, it is the least populated. Its peak population was in 1910 when it had 534 people and was the 4th largest town in the county. Paint Rock is the location where the were arrested. History |
Tennessee State Route 97
State Route 97 (SR 97) is a rural state highway located entirely in Franklin County in southern Middle Tennessee. Route description SR 97 begins at the Alabama state line where it transitions from being Alabama State Route 65 north of Francisco, Alabama, in Jackson County, which connects SR 97 to a junction with U.S. Route 72 (US 72) located south of the state line. SR 97 traverses mainly rural areas of southwestern Franklin County as its northern terminus is located at Huntland with a junction with SR 122 just south of that route's intersection with US 64 U.S. Route 64 (US 64) is an east–west United States highway that runs for 2,281 miles (3,672 km) from Nags Head in eastern North Carolina to just southwest of the Four Corners in northeast Arizona. The western terminus is at U.S. Route ... ( SR 15). Major intersections References 097 097 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
