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Cannon County, Tennessee
Cannon County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Woodbury
Year Organized: 1836
Square Miles: 266 |
Court House: Courthouse Square
County Courthouse
Woodbury, TN 37190
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named in honor of Newton Cannon (1781-1841), Creek War and War of 1812 soldier, Tennessee state senator, US congressman, first Whig governor of Tennessee.
Demographics:
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History of Cannon County
Created 1836 from Rutherford, Smith and Warren counties; named in honor of Newton Cannon (1781-1841), Creek War and War of 1812 soldier, Tennessee state senator, US congressman, first Whig governor of Tennessee.
Cannon County was formed in 1836 from Rutherford, Smith and Warren counties. (Private
Acts of Tennessee 1835-36, Chapter 33).
Cannon County was established on January 31, 1836, when the state legislature took portions of Rutherford, Smith,
and Warren Counties to create the new county of Cannon, named in honor of Whig Governor Newton Cannon. (Two years
later, the legislature added a portion of Wilson County, creating the present county boundaries.) The county's first
settlers moved to present-day western Cannon County, around the Readyville and Bradyville areas, during the late
1790s. Hugh P. Brawley operated a grist mill at Brawley Fork as early as 1808.
The first village of any size, however, was Danville, which became the initial county seat. Its name was soon
changed to Woodbury to honor Levi Woodbury, the Democratic secretary of the treasury. In 1836 Henry Trott and
William Bates laid out new lots for Woodbury, and their plan adapted the earlier linear street plan of Danville into
a central courthouse square plan. The present Cannon County Courthouse, built in 1935, features a striking Colonial
Revival design by Nashville architect George Waller and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Other
local properties in the National Register are the Houston House, a vernacular Greek Revival-style I-house associated
with Democratic Congressman William C. Houston; the Adams House, the last remaining dormitory of the Baptist Female
College and the later home of prominent physician Jesse F. Adams; the Wharton House, a vernacular Queen Anne
dwelling from the late nineteenth century; and the Readyville Mill, a nineteenth- and twentieth-century grist mill
complex.
Find more from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture:
CANNON COUNTY
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 266 square miles (688 kmē), of which, 266
square miles (688 kmē) of it is land and 0 square miles (0 kmē) of it (0.02%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- DeKalb County (northeast)
- Warren County (east)
- Coffee County (south)
- Rutherford County (west)
- Wilson County (northwest)
Cities and Towns:
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- Auburntown |
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- Woodbury
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County Resources:
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