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Greene County, Tennessee

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17historic places

—earliest paper

1783formed

70,152pop. 2020

44cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966. Most listings are in or near Greeneville, Afton, Chuckey.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Tennessee is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Greene titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Allen-Birdwell Farm	Greeneville	District	2011
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (Additional Documentation)	Greeneville	District	1966
Blue Springs Lutheran Church and Cemetery	Mosheim	Building	2017
Brown-Neas House	Afton	Building	1984
Bulls Gap Fortification	Bulls Gap	Site	1998
Crescent School	Greeneville	Building	2020
Doak, Samuel, House	Greeneville	Building	1975
Earnest Farms Historic District	Chuckey	District	2002
Greeneville Historic District	Greeneville	District	1974
Lowry, James, House	Greeneville	Building	1982
Maden Hall Farm	Greeneville	District	2009
Mauris-Earnest Fort House	Chuckey	Building	1978
New Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Greeneville	Building	1978
Rainbow Bridge	Greeneville	Structure	2026
Rankin, David, House	Greeneville	Building	1983
Ripley Stone House	Afton	Building	1978
Tusculum College Historic District	Tusculum	District	1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Greene was formed in 1783 (1783-05-17) from Washington.

GREENE created by North Carolina from WASHINGTON; precise location of boundary between North Carolina and Virginia remained in dispute.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Greene County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
7,741	7,610	11,324	16,076	19,004	24,005	30,596	32,824	39,405	41,048	42,163	54,422	62,909	70,152

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site	Park unit	2.5 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

44 cemeteries and 12 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 44 of 44 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Andrew Johnson National Cemetery	36.15561	-82.83774
Bailey Cemetery	36.33481	-82.84682
Beersheba Cemetery	36.01537	-82.85653
Bible Cemetery	36.16842	-83.04127
Brotherton Cemetery	36.27898	-82.97988
Brown Cemetery	36.25231	-83.0271
Caney Creek Cemetery	36.35093	-82.79988
Carter Cemetery	36.30065	-82.87127
Courtney Cemetery	36.19037	-83.13821
Crosby Cemetery	36.17509	-83.07099
Drake Cemetery	36.24065	-83.08183
Everhart Cemetery	36.30592	-82.94293
Fortner Cemetery	36.22426	-82.81932
Fox Cemetery	36.17704	-82.69292
Haire Cemetery	35.98898	-82.8432
Hale Cemetery	36.12648	-83.12849
Harmony Cemetery	36.16343	-82.82737
Hawkins Cemetery	36.20342	-82.99904
Houston Cemetery	36.29649	-82.63959
Hurley Cemetery	36.16037	-83.13266
Kesterson Cemetery	36.15231	-83.13294
Lamb Cemetery	35.99648	-82.83625
Luster Cemetery	36.14315	-83.1321
Lyle Cemetery	36.17676	-83.1596
McCorkel Cemetery	36.1535	-83.15924
McCurry Cemetery	36.20009	-82.82154
Moore Cemetery	36.30593	-82.75876
Mount Bethel Cemetery	36.17093	-82.81376
Mount Olive Cemetery	36.00065	-82.94376
Mount Tabor Cemetery	36.08815	-82.74709
Mountain View Cemetery	36.1101	-82.70042
Neilson Cemetery	36.1535	-83.15925
New Hope Cemetery	36.16676	-82.77626
Oak Grove Cemetery	36.17086	-82.82268
Patterson Cemetery	36.29731	-82.95821
Pleasant Vale Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery	36.25593	-82.69709
Price Cemetery	36.05537	-82.79987
Price Cemetery	36.29148	-82.91988
Providence Cemetery	36.29621	-82.64043
Rehobeth Cemetery	36.01593	-82.85181
Susong Cemetery	36.1662	-82.98349
Wisecarver Cemetery	36.19703	-83.05516
Wisecarver Cemetery	36.15009	-83.14044
Wright Cemetery	36.18759	-83.10099

Historical populated places — 12 of 12

Name	Lat	Lon
Allenbridge	36.06982	-82.89987
Couch	36.29538	-82.95683
Derby	36.19566	-82.84571
Henshaw	36.14566	-82.73015
Little Chucky	36.11177	-82.99127
Maltsberger	36.31816	-82.71432
Memento	36.24677	-82.92905
Morelock	36.29454	-82.89488
Mount Hope	36.29593	-82.8271
Sirenburg	36.01927	-82.97876
Statemount	36.2376	-82.73599
Swanay	36.34399	-82.69849

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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