Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Tullahoma, TN

Tullahoma is a city in southern Middle Tennessee that spans Coffee and Franklin counties, with the bulk of the city in southwestern Coffee County.

Tullahoma was founded in 1852 as a work camp along the new Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and was incorporated on October 4, 1852.

Its name is generally traced to the Choctaw phrase tuli homma, meaning "red rock," though another account says land donor Peter Decherd named the station for his favorite horse, Tullahoma.

During the Civil War, Tullahoma served in 1863 as the headquarters of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and that summer's Union Tullahoma Campaign seized control of Middle Tennessee as the town was evacuated without a battle.

Soldiers of both armies remembered Civil War Tullahoma for its mud; one Confederate staff officer joked that its name combined Greek words for "mud" and "more mud."

The 2020 census counted 20,339 residents in Tullahoma, making it the largest city in Coffee County.

Those residents formed 8,330 households and 5,181 families at the 2020 census.

Tullahoma is the principal city of the Tullahoma micropolitan area, which covers Coffee and Moore counties and is the second-largest micropolitan area in Tennessee.

In World War II, the Army built Camp Forrest beside the town, one of its largest training centers and later a prisoner-of-war camp, and Tullahoma's population swelled from about 4,500 in 1940 to some 75,000 by the end of the war.

After the war, the Air Force built the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base on the old Camp Forrest site, and President Harry Truman dedicated it on June 25, 1951, in honor of General Henry "Hap" Arnold.