Crossville, Tennessee

One of the two locations in Tennessee is located in Crossville at exit 320 off of I-40.

Buc-ee's

is immediately south of Crossville.

Cumberland Mountain State Park

The are also south of Crossville.

Cumberland Homesteads

The Native Stone Museum, in a 1930s-era Tennessee Highway Patrol station on the courthouse square, is dedicated to Crab Orchard Stone, a local building material used in many of the city's buildings.

The , which opened in 1938, still serves as a theater, performance venue, and meeting hall.^[21]

Palace Theatre

The moved its corporate offices to Crossville from New Windsor, New York, in 2005. In 2022 the USCF announced that it would leave Crossville for St. Louis.

United States Chess Federation

The , promoted as the world's largest yard sale, is held annually in August.

Highway 127 Corridor Sale

The Cumberland County Playhouse is rural Tennessee's only major nonprofit professional performing arts resource, and one of rural America's 10 largest professional theaters. It serves more than 165,000 visitors annually with two indoor and two outdoor stages, young audience productions, a comprehensive dance program, a concert series and touring shows.

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Crossville calls itself "the golf capital of Tennessee" and features 12 courses: Stonehenge, Heatherhurst Crag, Heatherhurst Brae, Deer Creek, River Run, Four Seasons, The Bear Trace, Dorchester, Mountain Ridge, Renegade, Druid Hills, and Lake Tansi.

The Cosby Harrison Company (formerly known as TAP Publishing) was created in 1937 by Cosby Harrison with the first publication, Trade-A-Plane, still published today. Over the years TAP Publishing has created and published other products that can be found nationwide and even internationally, such as Rock & Dirt, Rock & Dirt en Espanol, Tradequip, weatherTAP, and NextTruck Online.

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The Cumberland County Fair is held every August.

Art Circle Public Library

a treehouse and church, closed in 2012.

Horace Burgess's Treehouse

A zone on the Cumberland County Courthouse lawn was the site of several unofficial displays, including a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, an Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier's Memorial, a miniature Statue of Liberty, chainsaw carvings of a nativity scene, Jesus carrying the cross, and monkeys and bears.^[24] As of April 30, 2008, the lawn is no longer a free-speech zone due largely to the controversy caused by the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue.^[25]

free-speech

country music singer and actress born in Crossville^[26]

Mandy Barnett

actress born and raised here^[27]

Julie Ann Emery

Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2009, Miss Teen USA 2009^[28]

Stormi Henley

posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for action near Bellicourt, France, during World War I and buried in Crossville City Cemetery

Milo Lemert

first African-American to play in an NBA basketball game

Earl Lloyd

politician, member of the Tennessee General Assembly and Crossville mayor

Thomas Shadden

acclaimed nonfiction writer^[29]

Michael Sims

U.S. representative

Charles Edward Snodgrass

comic book artist, born in Crossville; president of the entertainment company Aspen MLT

Michael Turner

film actress

Marjorie Weaver

Logan Weir, film director, born in crossville

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Crossville, Tennessee Pictorial History. Nashville: Turner Publishing Company (2001).  1-56311-767-3

ISBN

City of Crossville official website

Crossville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce

Cumberland County Playhouse

Speak Up Crossville

Crossville News First

Archived August 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine — information on local government, elections, and link to charter

Municipal Technical Advisory Service entry for Crossville