McLemoresville, TN

McLemoresville is a town in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States. The 2020 census counted 288 residents. McLemoresville is notable primarily as the birthplace, and final resting place, of television star Dixie Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook. McLemoresville was once, briefly in the 19th century, the county seat for Carroll County, and was the largest town in the county. That mix gives McLemoresville a clear local shape within Tennessee, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. Bethel College, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 's only four-year liberal arts college, began in McLemoresville, as did the denomination's theological school. McLemoresville is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 70A and State Route 105.