Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Collinwood, TN

Collinwood is an incorporated city in Wayne County, Tennessee, concentrated along State Route 13 in the southern part of the county, about halfway between Waynesboro and the Alabama state line.

The city was established in 1913 as a stop on the Tennessee Western Railroad, which was built to serve the iron industry of the surrounding area.

Collinwood was named for W. W. Collins, president of the Collinwood Land Company, which platted the town.

Collinwood became the western terminus of its railroad after a planned extension to Hohenwald was never built.

By 1914 Collinwood had grown to about 300 residents, and a First World War boom swelled its population past 2,000, with a wood alcohol (methanol) distillation plant and a blast furnace built in that era.

When the local economy collapsed, the railroad tracks connecting Collinwood to the L&N line at Iron City were abandoned in the late 1930s.

The Collinwood Railroad Station, built in 1916, still stands in the city, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and now serves as a library and museum.

The Natchez Trace Parkway traverses Collinwood from northeast to southwest, and State Route 203 intersects State Route 13 at the city's southern tip.

The 2020 census counted 898 residents in Collinwood, living in 393 households and 298 families, with 437 housing units in the city, and the Census Bureau classified all of the city's residents as rural.

Collinwood covers 2.78 square miles, all of it land, and its streams drain into the Shoal Creek and Indian Creek watersheds.