From its southwestern terminus it heads northeast and passes through the town of Petros and past Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.
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This section of the highway parallels Walden Ridge to the immediate southeast, and a former spur of the Norfolk Southern Railway (now closed), and passes through Briceville, Fraterville which was the site of a 1902 mine explosion, "The Wye" near the former mining camp of Beech Grove, and finally through a gap in Walden Ridge to enter Lake City.
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Fork Mountain, Tennessee, a former coal mining camp, located on Tennessee State Route 116 and the New River, at Morgan County, Tennessee