| White County is in Middle
Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains, midway between Nashville and Knoxville, and covers
an area of 377 square miles. Called "the Mountain District", it's scenery is
said to rival the Swiss Alps. The Center Hill Lake and Recreation Area lies at the eastern
boundry of the county, the "Calf Killer" River runs through the middle of the
county, and the beautiful Caney Fork River runs around the southwestern border, near the
Warren and DeKalb County lines. Earliest migration was by frontiersmen coming through the
Cumberland Gap, but later settlement was due in part to a highway between Knoxville and
Nashville that was opened in 1785.
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