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Winchester is an incorporated city and the county seat of Franklin County in southern Middle Tennessee.

The Tennessee Legislature created Winchester as the county's seat of justice on November 22, 1809, the town was laid out in 1810, and it was incorporated in 1821.

Winchester is named for James Winchester, a Revolutionary War soldier, the first Speaker of the Tennessee Legislature, and a brigadier general in the War of 1812, even though he never lived in the town.

Mary Sharp College, founded in 1851 as a women's college offering a classical curriculum modeled on Amherst, Brown, and the University of Virginia, helped make Winchester an educational center before it closed in 1896.

During the Civil War, Franklin County seceded from the Union several months before the rest of Tennessee and unofficially became part of Alabama, and Winchester lay along the Confederate Army of Tennessee's 1863 line of retreat toward Chattanooga.

The 2020 census counted 9,375 residents in Winchester, living in 3,847 households.

The city covers about 11.7 square miles, nearly a square mile of which is water from the arms of Tims Ford Lake that reach its edges.

The Tennessee Valley Authority built Tims Ford Dam on the Elk River between 1966 and 1972, and the resulting Tims Ford Lake and Tims Ford State Park are now known for boating and bass fishing.

U.S. Route 41A passes through downtown Winchester as Dinah Shore Boulevard, named for the singer and television star who was born in the city.

Four governors of Tennessee - Isham G. Harris, Peter Turney, Albert Smith Marks, and Henry Horton - came from Winchester, as did financier and philanthropist John Templeton.