Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Wrigley, TN

Wrigley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hickman County, Tennessee.

The 2020 census counted 257 residents in the Wrigley CDP, down from 281 in the 2010 census.

The Wrigley CDP covers just under one square mile and contained 128 housing units in the 2020 census.

Wrigley began as the iron town of Warner: in 1880, Nashville ironmaster James C. Warner bought land here and, with his sons Percy, Edwin and Jo, built a blast furnace and named the settlement Warner.

The Warner blast furnace could make nearly 40 tons of charcoal pig iron a day, and its output went largely to railroad companies for the manufacture of railroad car wheels.

Nashville's Warner Parks are named in honor of Percy and Edwin Warner, two of the sons who built the furnace at Warner.

In the early 1900s, the Bon Air Coal and Iron Corporation took over the old Warner furnace properties, restarted production and built housing for its workers near the plant.

During World War I, Bon Air sold the operation to the U.S. government to manufacture war supplies, then bought it back after the war and finished developing it as a company town, an investment of about $1.7 million in Hickman County.

In June 1919 the town's name was changed to Wrigley, after William Wrigley Jr., the chewing gum manufacturer and owner of the Chicago Cubs, who was a major stockholder in Bon Air.

Bon Air built Wrigley a school, a commissary, a hotel and a doctor's office, put a post office inside the company store, and gave residents electricity and running water long before TVA power reached nearby communities.