# Central Tennessee

Central Tennessee, more often called Middle Tennessee, is a region of Tennessee. Besides the obvious destinations like Nashville, there are some lesser known ones, like Carthage, for instance, the hometown of former Vice-President Al Gore.

## Cities

* 36.162222-86.7744441 Nashville - Music City U.S.A., Country music capital of the world, and the State Capitol
* 36.055-86.67252 Antioch
* 36.267954-87.0548773 Ashland City
* 35.998194-86.7926194 Brentwood
* 36.529722-87.3594445 Clarksville - Home to the U.S. Army's Ft. Campbell and Austin Peay State University
* 35.615022-87.0444646 Columbia - Home of 11th U.S. President James K. Polk with many Southern antebellum homes nearby
* 36.164202-85.5042957 Cookeville - Home of Tennessee Technological University
* 35.166667-86.0119448 Cowan
* 35.215833-86.0791679 Decherd
* 36.071389-87.37444410 Dickson
* 36.482222-87.84472211 Dover
* 35.152778-86.57138912 Fayetteville
* 35.929167-86.857513 Franklin - Location of the famous Civil War Battle of Franklin
* 36.304722-86.6214 Hendersonville - City by The Lake, Nashville suburb
* 36.214972-86.61297215 Hermitage
* 36.013333-86.56277816 La Vergne
* 35.243611-87.33444417 Lawrenceburg - David Crockett, Southern Gospel, Amish community
* 36.2081-86.326418 Lebanon - Home of Cracker Barrel
* 35.284167-86.357519 Lynchburg - Home of world-famous Jack Daniel's Distillery
* 35.473333-86.08555620 Manchester
* 35.24-85.83444421 Monteagle - Located along the edges of the picturesque Cumberland Plateau
* 36.202778-86.51361122 Mount Juliet - City Between the Lakes
* 35.846111-86.39194423 Murfreesboro - Location of Civil War Stones River Battlefield, and also home to Middle Tennessee State University
* 35.201111-85.92138924 Sewanee - Home to the beautiful University of the South
* 35.982472-86.51994425 Smyrna
* 35.260833-85.74166726 Tracy City - where a dead man was elected mayor
* 35.362024-86.20943427 Tullahoma - Location of the NASA Arnold Engineering Center
* 36.465278-86.66277828 White House
* 36.083173-87.79393529 Waverly
* 35.188333-86.112530 Winchester - Nearby Tim's Ford Lake offers recreational activities

## Other destinations

* The Natchez Trace Parkway crosses through Middle Tennessee. It begins in Nashville and continues south through Wayne County where it enters Alabama. The road continues all the way to Natchez, Mississippi where it ends. The stretch through Middle Tennessee is often regarded as the most beautiful portion of the road. There are numerous overlooks, hiking trails, and waterfalls in the beautiful scenery of the rolling, Tennessee hills.
* Lake Barkley
* Land Between the Lakes

## See

* Tennessee Wineries. Visit at least one of the more than 20 wineries in Tennessee. Here in Middle Tennessee are these: Vineyards & Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Clarksville), $^{[deadlink]}$|Chateau Ross Vineyard & Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Springfield), Crest Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Portland), Barn Winery & Vineyards$^{[deadlink]}$ (Lafayette), Creek Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Manchester), Vineyards & Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Shelbyville), Springs Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Hampshire), Ridge Winery and Vineyard$^{[deadlink]}$ (Livingston), $^{[deadlink]}$|Highland Manor Winery$^{[deadlink]}$ (Jamestown) and Winery, Inc.$^{[deadlink]}$ (Crossville)
* 35.50905-87.459591 Meriwether Lewis National Monument or Grinder's Stand, east of Hohenwald and near mile marker 389 along the Natchez Trace, grave and reconstructed inn where it is believed Meriwether Lewis took his life.
* 35.92009-85.403622 State Historic Rock House, 3663 Country Club Rd, Sparta, ☏ +1 931 739-7625. W-Sa 10AM-3PM. Historic way station along a wagon road between Nashville and Knoxville circa the 1830s where Andrew Jackson once stopped, and near the town of Sparta that nearly became Tennessee's state capital. (updated Sep 2021)

## Do

* 35.666-85.68363 Cumberland Caverns, east of McMinnville, where you can stop to see antebellum estates like the Black House and Falcon Rest, this is the 2nd largest cave in Tennessee, with a chandelier from the Lowes Metropolitan Theater in NYC.

## Drink

Visit the Microbrewery at Yazoo in Nashville. Take the tour get a growler

## Go next

* East Tennessee - The Eastern Grand Division of Tennessee with valleys and ridges plus the Allegheny Mountains
* West Tennessee - The Western Grand Division extends west from the Tennessee River and is the northern boundary of the Mississippi Delta cultural region.