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Trousdale County, Tennessee

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7historic places

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1870formed

11,615pop. 2020

10cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Hartsville.

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 Trousdale titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Averitt-Herod House	Hartsville	Building	1996
DeBow, James R., House (Additional Documentation)	Hartsville	Building	1988
Hartsville Battlefield	Hartsville	District	1998
Hartsville Depot	Hartsville	Building	1980
Hartsville Historic District	Hartsville	District	1993
Turney-Hutchins House	Hartsville	Building	1992
Ward School	Hartsville	Building	2020

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Trousdale was formed in 1870 (1870-07-12) from Macon, Smith, Sumner, Wilson.

TROUSDALE created from MACON, SMITH, SUMNER, and WILSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Trousdale County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,646	6,004	5,996	6,113	5,520	4,914	6,137	7,259	11,615

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bass Cemetery	36.34588	-86.21471
Carman Cemetery	36.35532	-86.14887
Fleeman Cemetery	36.40615	-86.0897
Gregory Cemetery	36.41255	-86.01526
Piper-Hughes Cemetery	36.34088	-86.10832
Rankin Cemetery	36.37087	-86.25248
Stafford Cemetery	36.4231	-86.05165
Stalcup Cemetery	36.38143	-86.11526
Wallace Cemetery	36.42671	-86.06109
Willow Grove Cemetery	36.43865	-86.23387

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

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Hartsville	5,801	5.1 km	TN008

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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