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'Nutbush, Tennessee' is an unincorporated rural community in western Tennessee that has been considered part of Brownsville in Haywood County, and Ripley in Lauderdale County, United States.
Established in the early 1800s, Nutbush is home to two early American churches founded by white settlers, Woodlawn Baptist Church and Trinity United Methodist Church. Trinity Cemetery is providing the final resting place to more than 50 Civil War soldiers.
Agriculture is the dominant source of income in the area. Then and now, agriculture is focussed on the cultivation and processing of cotton. In 2006, cotton is processed in one cotton-processing plant in the community.
Nutbush is best known as the birthplace and childhood home of singer Tina Turner. In the song ''Nutbush City Limits'' she portraits the town she grew up in.
Nutbush is also known as the birthplace and home community of black and white pioneer musicians and recording artists such as Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes.''A History of Tennessee Arts'', University of Tennessee Press
Grocery store in Nutbush
Nutbush, Tennessee, childhood home of singer Tina Turner
Demographics
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 2 were of another ethnicity (0.77%). At that time 190 people (73.36%) were aged 18 or older.[1]
Economy
Cotton processing in Nutbush
The community's main source of income is agriculture (especially cotton).
Historical
After the abolition of slavery, sharecropping was the primary means of income for low income families in the area. Mostly for the cultivation of cotton, land would be used by sharecroppers in return for a share of the crop to the landowner.
Modern
Modern machines like the cotton picker have made the manual cultivation obsolete over time as they took over the work from the hand laborers. In 2006, one cotton-processing plant in Nutbush is the only agricultural industry in the community.
Lagoon Creek Peaking Facility is run by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Nutbush. From eight gas turbines the power plant generates electric power for the area in times of high demand.[2][3]
History
Settlement
Scenic view onto Hwy 19
The Nutbush community was established in the early 1800s by settlers from Virginia and North Carolina. Originally from England they traveled westward to Tennessee hoping to gain economic prosperity through the use of slave labor.[4]''The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', Rutledge Press
Churches
Trinity United Methodist Church
Trinity United Methodist Church was founded in 1822. More than 50 Civil War soldiers, both Confederate and Union soldiers, are buried in the Trinity Cemetery associated with the church. The Trinity Cemetery is mentioned as one of the best kept cemeteries in the county.[4]
Woodlawn Baptist Church
The Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery on Woodlawn Road in Nutbush was established in 1866 by freed slaves of the community and members of the white Woodlawn Baptist Church and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 for its historical significance.[6] Most slave congregations were ministered by white pastors but in 1846, the young slave Hardin Smith of Virginia was allowed to preach to a slave congregation at the white Woodlawn Church, then located near Woodlawn Road, establishing the first area congregation pastored by a slave.
Smith was secretly taught to read and write through the Bible by his owners' wife. He in turn secretly taught the community of slaves to read and write. Following slavery, through census reports, there were more freed slaves in Haywood County, Tennessee who could read and write than anywhere in the state of Tennessee. They helped establish schools and colleges for black citizens in Tennessee and some became state representatives, writers, ministers, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
The community leader Smith, organized six churches in Haywood and Lauderdale counties including Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church in Nutbush.[7]
Postal
In 1881 a U.S. Post office was opened in Nutbush and closed again in 1905.[8]
Geography
Geography
Nutbush is located at 35.70° North, 89.41° West.[9]
The elevation above sea level is 390 ft (119 m) (average county elevation for Haywood County).http://www.downloadzipcode.com/ DownloadZIPcode
Cotton-fields and hills dominate the landscape of the area.
Nutbush is situated on the Southeastern edge of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, an area with a high earthquake risk.
Postal and telephone
The U.S. ZIP Code for Nutbush is 38063 (Ripley, Tennessee) and the telephone area code is 731.[10]
Music
The early black and white musicians and singers from the Nutbush churches recorded and influenced an international audience.
Pioneer musicians
Nutbush is the birthplace and home community of black and white pioneer musicians and prominent recording artists such as Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes. Harmonica player Noah Lewis of Henning, Tennessee is buried in an area cemetery near Nutbush.''A History of Tennessee Arts'', University of Tennessee Press
Tina Turner
Tina Turner Highway
Nutbush is best known as the childhood home of singer Tina Turner. At age 16, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri.
After her birth in 1939, Tina Turner (born as Anna Mae Bullock) was raised in Nutbush, Brownsville and Ripley by her grandmother and area extended family. The houses she was raised in as a child no longer exist. Wood from her Nutbush/Flagg Grove home was converted into a barn.Information by Sharon Norris, national preservationist, author and researcher of ''Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee''; relative of Tina Turner and native of Nutbush
Both Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church and Spring Hill Baptist Church in Nutbush were the family churches of Tina Turner. She attended and sang in both choirs growing up. Her family members were church officials, musicians and singers who are buried in both cemeteries.
Tina Turner's song ''Nutbush City Limits'' (1973, produced by Ike Turner) is about the town where she was born and raised, Nutbush, Tennessee. The Line dance "The Nutbush" is performed to the song ''Nutbush City Limits''.
In 2001, Tennessee State Highway 19 between Brownsville and Nutbush was named "Tina Turner Highway"[11]
Nutbush is mentioned on the TV show . An impersonator of Tina Turner is introduced as "Tina Turner and her Bunsen Burner". With different explosive materials she destroys cars like she "used to do in her lab in Nutbush".
References
Cotton field in Nutbush
1. http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury
2. http://www.continentalconst.com/ Continental Construction, Co., Inc.
3. http://www.atlaspower.com/ AtlasPower, Inc.
4. http://www.rootsweb.com Rootsweb - Haywood County, TN Genealogy
5. http://www.rootsweb.com Rootsweb - Haywood County, TN Genealogy
6. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com National Register of Historic Places
7. Norris, Sharon, ''Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee'', Arcadia Publishing
8. http://www.state.tn.us/TSLA/ Tennessee State Library and Archives
9. http://terraserver-usa.com/ TerraServer Image Information
10. http://www.bellsouth.com BellSouth
11. http://www.nationalenquirer.com National Enquirer
Further reading
★ A History of Tennessee Arts, West, Carroll Van & Duncan Binnicker, Margaret, , , The University of Tennessee Press, 2004, ISBN 1-57233-239-5
★ Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee, Norris, Sharon, , , Arcadia Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-73850-605-2
External links
★ Photographic Documentation of contemporary Nutbush, Tennessee.
★ The Goodspeed History Haywood County, Tennessee, 1887
★ The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
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