Athens, Tennessee
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Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidista
McMinn County Courthouse in Athens
The Samuel Cleage House outside of Athens, set on the site of McElhaney and Sons Nursery, built in the 1820s
THC marker at the "Battle of Athens" site
Tennessee Wesleyan University, organized in 1857
Mayfield Dairy
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Mayfield Dairy Farms is an American dairy products company, with its headquarters in Athens, Tennessee and additional production plants in Birmingham, Alabama. From 1990 to 2020 it was under the owner
Athens, Tennessee
…who operated an iron forge near modern Etowah, and Samuel Clegg (or Cleage), a construction entrepreneur. Jesse Mayfield, whose descendants founded Mayfield Dairy Farms, arrived in the early 1820s. The Hiwassee Railroad received a charter in the mid-1830s to build a railroad connecting Knoxville, Tennessee, and Dalton…
Mayfield's cow