The Briceville Community Church is a nondenominational church located in Briceville, Tennessee, United States. Built in 1887, the church served as a center of social life and community affairs for the Coal Creek Valley during the valley's coal mining boom period in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Briceville Community Church is situated 1 mile south of Thistle Mine.

Cross Mountain

Peak

Cross Mountain is a mountain in the Cumberland Mountains in the U.S. state of Tennessee. At an elevation of 3,534 feet, it is the highest mountain in Tennessee that is not part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Appalachian Mountains. Cross Mountain is situated 2½ miles west of Thistle Mine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fraterville and Briceville.

Fraterville

Hamlet

Fraterville, Tennessee is an unincorporated community located on State Route 116 in Anderson County, Tennessee, between the towns of Rocky Top and Briceville. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Briceville

Hamlet

Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.

Briceville is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Tennessee. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is named for railroad tycoon and one-term Democratic U.S.

Rocky Top

Photo: Bms4880, CC BY 3.0.

Rocky Top is a town in Tennessee. In 2014, it was renamed after the popular southern folk song, Rocky Top. In 2020, it was home to about 1600 people.

Thistle Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: Anderson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.19397° or 36° 11′ 38″ north

Longitude

-84.18659° or 84° 11′ 12″ west

Elevation

961 feet (293 metres)

Open location code

868Q5RV7+H9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368995693

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

4662326

Wikidata ID

Q49453807

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In Other Languages

“Thistle Mine” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Thistle Mine”

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