Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Mosheim, TN

Mosheim is an incorporated town in western Greene County, Tennessee, pronounced 'Moss-hime.'

The community was settled around 1800 under the name Blue Springs, after a spring that flows through the town, and many of its first settlers were German Lutherans.

In 1872 the Lutherans founded a college there called Mosheim Institute, named for German theologian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, and the town took the name Mosheim that same year.

Mosheim was not incorporated until 1974, more than a century after it took its present name.

The Civil War Battle of Blue Springs was fought near Mosheim on October 10, 1863, and several participants in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy came from the nearby Pottertown community.

The 2020 census counted 2,479 residents in Mosheim, up from 2,362 in 2010.

The 2020 census recorded 949 households and 607 families in Mosheim.

Mosheim is the school center for the west end of Greene County, home to Mosheim Elementary School and the West Greene Middle and High schools.

The town hosts the Mosheim FunDays festival each June, a tradition since 1986, and the Volunteer Speedway dirt track sits at Interstate 81's Exit 23 in the western part of town.

Mosheim's own ZIP code is 37818, although parts of the town limits extend into the 37711 ZIP area around Interstate 81 and the 37743 ZIP area toward Greeneville.