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JAMESTOWN
Jamestown,
the county seat of Russell
County. Jamestown is
located on U.S. 127. The
town, first called
Jacksonville, in honor of
President Andrew Jackson,
was incorporated on December
23, 1827.
When the local
Anti-Jacksonian Party came
into power in 1826, the
community was renamed
Jamestown to honor James
Wooldridge, donor of
the one hundred acre town
site.
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Three
Russell County courthouses
were built between 1826 and 1978.
During the Civil War, Jamestown
was the site of two recorded
skirmishes; one on Christmas
Day,
1861, and the second on June
2, 1863. Lake
Cumberland, completed by the
Army Corps of Engineers in 1952,
is of great economic importance to
Jamestown for the recreational
fishing and boating along its
1,317 miles of shoreline in the
region.
Wolf
Creek Dam is located in
Russell County on the Cumberland
River. Wolf Creek Dam, located in
Russell County forming Lake
Cumberland, was not only
built by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE), but is also
owned and operated by them. The Wolf Creek generation
schedule included on TVA's
automated lake information line as
a courtesy to the public.
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