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Geographic and cultural region of Tennessee, United States
Photo: Sean Russell from Knoxville, TN, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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.
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Music City U.S.A., Country music capital of the world, and the State Capitol
Antioch is a city in Tennessee.
Ashland City is in Central Tennessee. Located about 30 minutes northwest of Nashville and 40 minutes southeast of Clarksville, Ashland City offers beautiful rolling hills perfect for hiking and mountain biking.
Brentwood is a city in Tennessee.
Home to the U.S. Army's Ft. Campbell and Austin Peay State University
Home of 11th U.S. President James K. Polk with many Southern antebellum homes nearby
Home of Tennessee Technological University
Not to be confused with Cowan in Victoria, in which is covered in the Phillip Island article Cowan is a very small town in Tennessee. It has roughly 1,700 residents, and is located at the foot of the Cumberland Plateau between Chattanooga and Nashville.
For the Dickson in Canberra, see Canberra/North Canberra Dickson is a city in Central Tennessee and can be both parts sleepy and busy far-flung exurb of Nashville.
Dover is a small city in Central Tennessee.
Fayetteville is a city in Tennessee.
Location of the famous Civil War Battle of Franklin
City by The Lake, Nashville suburb
Hermitage is a city in Tennessee.
David Crockett, Southern Gospel, Amish community
Home of Cracker Barrel
Home of world-famous Jack Daniel's Distillery
Manchester is a city in Tennessee.
Located along the edges of the picturesque Cumberland Plateau
City Between the Lakes
Location of Civil War Stones River Battlefield, and also home to Middle Tennessee State University
Home to the beautiful University of the South
Smyrna is a town in Central Tennessee.
The Natchez Trace is a 444-mile-long (715 km) national parkway that runs from Nashville in Central Tennessee to the town of Natchez in Mississippi. The route has been in use from pre-Colonial times and includes exceptional scenery, Indian burial mounds, overlooks, hiking trails, nature exhibits, and sites of historic interest.
Lake Barkley is in the Western Waterlands of Kentucky and in Central Tennessee.
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (LBL) is a United States national recreation area in Kentucky and Tennessee. Land Between the Lakes offers all the outdoor recreation "basics" with opportunities for environmental and historic interpretation.
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