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Tennessee State Route 324

short state highway in Loudon County, Tennessee

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ85805826 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Route 324 (SR 324), also known as Sugar Limb Road, is a short state highway in Loudon County, Tennessee. It serves as one of two roads connecting the city of Loudon with Interstate 75 (I-75); the other is SR 72.

Route description

SR 324 begins at an interchange with I-75 at exit 76. It travels southeasterly through rural hilly terrain along the banks of the Tennessee River. The highway then enters the Loudon city limits and passes through industrial areas before coming to an end at an intersection with U.S. Route 11 (US 11, Lee Highway/SR 2) north of downtown. The entire route of SR 324 is a two-lane highway.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Loudon County.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tennessee State Route 324” as short state highway in Loudon County, Tennessee. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 120-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.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as short state highway in Loudon County, Tennessee. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85805826. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tennessee State Route 324”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tennessee State Route 324 primary sources, Tennessee State Route 324 archive and Tennessee research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tennessee State Route 324”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tennessee State Route 324” 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.