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2 unusual facts about Tennessee State Route 116


Tennessee State Route 116

From its southwestern terminus it heads northeast and passes through the town of Petros and past Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.

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.



see also

Fork Mountain

Fork Mountain, Tennessee, a former coal mining camp, located on Tennessee State Route 116 and the New River, at Morgan County, Tennessee