Nutbush, Tennessee
| Nutbush, Tennessee | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
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 Location in the state of Tennessee |
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| Coordinates: 35°41′53″N 89°24′29″W / 35.69806°N 89.40806°WCoordinates: 35°41′53″N 89°24′29″W / 35.69806°N 89.40806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| Counties | Haywood |
| Elevation | 358 ft (109 m) |
| Population (2000) of the Nutbush voting precinct | |
| • Total | 259 |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 38063 (Ripley, Tennessee) |
| Area code | 731 |
Nutbush is a rural unincorporated community in Haywood County, Tennessee, in the western part of the state. It was established in the early 19th century by European-American settlers who brought along or bought enslaved African Americans as workers to develop the area's cotton plantations. The African Americans built the fine houses and churches that still stand.
Agriculture is still the dominant source of income in the area, focused on the cultivation and processing of cotton. This was the commodity crop in the antebellum years, when its cultivation depended on slave labor. As of 2006, cotton was processed in one cotton-processing plant in the community.
Nutbush is best known as the birthplace and childhood home of singer Tina Turner, who described the town in her 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits". In 2002, a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 near Nutbush was named "Tina Turner Highway" in her honor. This is also the home town of blues pioneer musicians and recording artists Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes.
In 2000, the population of the Nutbush voting precinct (TN 3976) was 259. Of those, 215 were White (83.01%), 42 Black (16.22%), and two were of another ethnicity (0.77%). At that time 190 people (73.36%) were aged 18 or older.
The community's main source of income is agriculture (especially cotton).
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