Notable Residents
- Kris & Dale Ballinger of the musical group the Cluster Pluckers.
- Mack Brown, former head football coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels; current head coach of the Texas Longhorns football team.
- Watson Brown, older brother of Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown, former head football coach of the Rice Owls, Vanderbilt Commodores, and UAB Blazers; current head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles.
- Jim Carlen, former head football coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, Texas Tech Red Raiders, and South Carolina Gamecocks
- Donald Farmer, film producer and director.
- Robert Ben Garant, "Deput Junior" from the TV show Reno 911!
- Bobby Greenwood, former PGA Tour Player, professional golfer
- Harold E. Martin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, was the former co-owner of the Herald Citizen.
- Jack Norton, children's musician and host of The Zinghoppers children's TV show that has been broadcast on Fox, NBC and PBS stations.
- J. J. Redick, basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the NBA was born in Cookeville, but grew up in Roanoke, Virginia
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
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“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
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