Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Jamestown, TN

Jamestown is an incorporated city and the county seat of Fentress County on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau.

Jamestown was established in 1823 as the county seat of the new Fentress County and was incorporated in 1837; both the city and the county are named for prominent local politician James Fentress.

The city was built on the site of a semi-permanent Cherokee village in an area first known as Sand Springs for its many bubbling springs, the last of which survives in Mark Twain City Park near the courthouse.

John M. Clemens, father of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), lived in Jamestown in the late 1820s and early 1830s, served as the county's first circuit court clerk, and drew the plans for the first courthouse and jail.

The 2020 census counted 1,935 residents in Jamestown, living in 856 households and 396 families.

Jamestown sits at an elevation of about 1,716 feet along the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau, and its streams split between the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River watershed to the east and the Obey River watershed to the west.

The city stands at the intersection of U.S. Route 127, which runs north into Kentucky and south to Crossville, and State Route 52, which leads west to Livingston.

World War I hero Sergeant Alvin C. York, who was born and raised in Fentress County, built the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute in Jamestown; it remains one of only four state-funded schools in Tennessee.

Jamestown is the headquarters of the World's Longest Yard Sale, also known as the 127 Corridor Sale, an annual multi-state event stretching along U.S. Route 127.

During the Civil War, Fentress County raised companies for both sides, and the Jamestown area saw a bitter guerrilla feud between "Tinker Dave" Beaty's Union scouts and Champ Ferguson's Confederate guerrillas.