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Tennessee State Route 296

state highway in Tennessee, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ85805796 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 296 (SR 296), also known as Taylor Place Road, is an east–west state highway in Fentress County, Tennessee, connecting Jamestown with Allardt.

Route description

SR 296 travels through rural areas for entire length, both farmland and wooded areas. SR 296 is a two-lane highway with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour (72 km/h), except in Allardt, which is 30 miles per hour (48 km/h), traveling through hilly terrain. There are no other cities or communities along the route besides at either of its termini.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Fentress County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tennessee State Route 296” as state highway in Tennessee, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 97-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tennessee, State and Route can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as state highway in Tennessee, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tennessee State Route 296” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.