Lincoln County High School (Tennessee)
| Lincoln County, Tennessee | ||
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Lincoln County Courthouse in Fayetteville
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 Location in the U.S. state of Tennessee |
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 Tennessee's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1809 | |
| Named for | Benjamin Lincoln | |
| Seat | Fayetteville | |
| Largest city | Fayetteville | |
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| • Total | 571 sq mi (1,479 km2) | |
| • Land | 570 sq mi (1,476 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.4 sq mi (1 km2), 0.07% | |
| Population | ||
| • (2015) | 33,743 | |
| • Density | 58/sq mi (22/km²) | |
| Congressional district | 4th | |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 | |
| Website | www |
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Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,361. Its county seat and largest city is Fayetteville. The county is named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, an officer in the American Revolutionary War.
Lincoln County was created in 1809 from parts of Bedford County. The land occupied by the county was part of a land session obtained from the Cherokee and Chickasaw in 1806.
The Lincoln County Process, used in the distillation of Tennessee whiskey, is named for this county, as the Jack Daniel Distillery was located there. However, a subsequent redrawing of county lines resulted in the establishment of adjacent Moore County, which includes the location of the distillery. Another distillery opened in Lincoln County in 1997 – the Benjamin Pritchard's Distillery. However, it did not use the Lincoln County Process for making its Tennessee whiskey. When a law was established in 2013 to require the Lincoln County Process to be used for making all Tennessee whiskey, the Benjamin Pritchard's Distillery was exempted by a grandfather clause, so no current Lincoln County business uses its namesake process.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 571 square miles (1,480 km2), of which 570 square miles (1,500 km2) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) (0.07%) is water.
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