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Ruby Falls
America's deepest underground waterfall, located 341 meters beneath Lookout Mountain inside an ancient cave system.
52 km · about 60 min drive
Tennessee, United States · North America
Monteagle sits on the route: 15 minutes from Sewanee, 52km from Ruby Falls.
Monteagle is a town located in Tennessee, United States. With a population of 1,177, it is an important destination in North America.
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Monteagle is a town in Franklin, Grundy, and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Cumberland Plateau region of the southeastern part of the state. The population was 1,238 at the 2000 census – 804 of the town's 1,238 residents (64.9%) lived in Grundy County, 428 (34.6%) in Marion County, and 6 (0.5%)Read more
in Franklin County. The population at the 2020 census was 1,393.
The Marion County portion of Monteagle is part of the Chattanooga–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Franklin County portion is part of the Tullahoma, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Monteagle is famous for the treacherous stretch of Interstate 24 that passes through the town. It is here that the highway passes over what is colloquially referred to as "The Monteagle" or "Monteagle Mountain", a section of the southern Cumberland Plateau which is a major landmark on the road between Chattanooga and Nashville. The interstate regularly shuts down in inclement weather, routing traffic onto U.S. Route 41. In the Jerry Reed song "The Legend", which is the opening track in the film Smokey and the Bandit, Reed tells the story of the Bandit miraculously surviving brake failure on the "Monteagle Grade". There is also a song called "Monteagle Mountain" by Johnny Cash on the album Boom Chicka Boom.
The town is home to DuBose Conference Center and the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly. The Highlander Folk School, long involved in the labor movement and the civil rights movement, was located here from 1932 to 1961. Rosa Parks attended workshops there shortly before the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Monteagle is located in Tennessee, United States, North America. The coordinates are 35.2401 latitude, -85.8397 longitude.
Monteagle has a population of approximately 1,177 people, making it a town in United States.
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America's deepest underground waterfall, located 341 meters beneath Lookout Mountain inside an ancient cave system.
52 km · about 60 min drive
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