About Maury County

    Welcome to Maury County, Tennessee - located 45 miles south of Nashville!

    Maury County, TN

    Population 2000: 69,498

    County seat: Columbia (The Mule Capital of the World)

Named for Revolutionary War veteran Abram Poindexter Maury Sr., state senator

Maury County was formed in 1807 from Williamson County and Indian lands. The Cherokee Indian title was bought at Washington, D.C., on January 7, 1806, for $10,000 and $100 per year annuity paid to "Old Black Fox," who surrendered all claims to lands stretching from Duck River to Alabama. (What is now Maury had been part of that Middle Basin land that the Cherokees, Chickasaws, and sometimes Shawnees and Northern tribes, claimed as their own preserve, defended against trespass by all others). On November 24, 1807, an Act passed at Knoxville created Maury County from Williamson. Maury originally comprised all of Giles, most of Lewis and Marshall, and portions of Bedford, Hickman and Lawrence Counties. Maury County was named in honor of Maj. Abram P. Maury of Williamson County, who was a member of the Tennessee legislature and an officer under General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Maj. Maury was the uncle of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Census 2000 highlights: Fastest-growing county in the state during the 1990s (56.3%); led the state in per-capita income ($36,508 in 1998)

POPULATION (2000 Census)

Maury County: 69,498
Columbia: 33,055
Mt. Pleasant: 4,491
Spring Hill: 7,715

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Maury County, Tennessee History

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