Lynchburg, Tennessee
city in Tennessee, USA
Lynchburg is a city in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is governed by a consolidated city-county government unit whose boundaries coincide with those of Moore County. Lynchburg is best known as the location of Jack Daniel's distillery, whose famous Tennessee whiskey is marketed worldwide as the product of a city with only one traffic light. Despite the operational distillery, which is a major tourist attraction, Lynchburg's home county of Moore is a dry county. However, sampling whiskey is permitted on distillery grounds. The population was 6,461 at the 2020 census.
Lynchburg is part of the Tullahoma–Manchester micropolitan area.
The downtown area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Lynchburg Historic District.
History
Settlers first arrived in the Lynchburg area around 1801. Main Street was originally the main road, and roughly followed the route of East Fork Mulberry Creek.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1023048. VIAF identifies the subject as 128994362. The Library of Congress control number is n79098586. Authority coordinates are 35.284, -86.358. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1801.
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