Sterling Farmer Lake

Sterling Farmer Lake is a reservoir in Rutherford, Tennessee. Sterling Farmer Lake is situated nearby to the hamlet Joyceland, as well as near Riverdale.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Discovery Center at Murfree Spring and Rutherford County Courthouse.

Discovery Center at Murfree Spring

Museum

The Discovery Center is a children's museum, nature center and wetlands boardwalk near downtown Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Exhibits include themed exploration areas for town life, science, trains, cars, a fire engine and farmers market.

Rutherford County Courthouse

Courthouse

Photo: Pollinator, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is a Classical Revival building from 1859. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is one of six remaining antebellum county courthouses in Tennessee…

First Presbyterian Church

Church

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Murfree Springs Presbyterian Church was founded in 1812 in a log cabin. In 1818 it changed its name to First Presbyterian Church and in 1820 moved to a brick meeting house on East Vine Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Murfreesboro and Barfield.

Murfreesboro

Photo: Jacob bloodaxe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Murfreesboro is a city in the Nashville metropolitan area of Middle Tennessee. It is the largest suburb of Nashville and the sixth largest city in Tennessee.

Barfield

Hamlet

Barfield is an unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in the United States.

Overall

Hamlet

Overall is an unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

Sterling Farmer Lake

Type: Reservoir
Category: body of water
Location: Rutherford, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.81986° or 35° 49′ 12″ north

Longitude

-86.41642° or 86° 24′ 59″ west

Elevation

577 feet (176 metres)

Open location code

867MRH9M+WC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 741344216

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=reservoir

GeoNames ID

4660002

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Satellite Map

Discover Sterling Farmer Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Joyceland and Riverdale.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sterling Farmer Dam and World Outreach Church.

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