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Cookeville, Tennessee. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Putnam. Associated ZIP codes: 38501, 38502, 38503, 38505, 38506.
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Cookeville Regional Medical Center, a not-for-profit hospital, has sued more than 2,000 patients since 2021 to recover medical debt. The hospital is the seco...
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Cookeville is in Putnam County, Tennessee.
Region: Tennessee
38501, 38502, 38503, 38505, 38506
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After clinging to a four-point lead at the half, No. 13 Tennessee scored 24 unanswered second-half points to take down No. 6 Kentucky, 34-6, in front of a ra...
If a renter experiences a broken heating system, there are a number of things they should do, including contacting their landlord in writing.
A former Tennessee police officer has been convicted of assault and attempted official oppression after prosecutors said he handcuffed a crying 3-year-old ch...
Before European settlement the Cherokee used the Cookeville area as hunting ground, and their claims to the Cumberland Plateau ended with the Treaty of Tellico in October 1805. Longhunters from Virginia and North Carolina, mostly of English and Scots-Irish descent, settled the area in the late 1700s and early 1800s, arriving by Avery's Trace, known locally as the Walton Road. Putnam County was formed in 1842 from parts of five counties and reestablished in 1854, when state law required a county seat. Land bought from Charles Crook, with natural springs to support a town, became the seat, named Cookeville for Richard Fielding Cooke, a pioneer who settled in the area in 1810, served twice in the state senate and helped establish the county.
The rugged land was unsuited to large-scale farming, though some farms used enslaved labor. When Tennessee seceded in 1861, residents were divided, most of them opposing secession, and men joined both armies. During the war the Putnam County Courthouse on the square was burned, and the Battle of Dug Hill was fought nearby. The divisions left bitterness among neighbors and families and slowed the town's growth. Growth returned in the late 1800s with the city's first hotel, the Isbell, in 1886 and the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad in 1890, later the Tennessee Central. Cookeville was chartered as a city in 1903, began distributing electricity through its own light and water department in 1905, and gained the Cookeville Depot in 1909. Sources Wikipedia: Cookeville, Tennessee
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