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Housing Units (2000): 620
Land area (2000): 4.499568 sq. miles (11.653828 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.499568 sq. miles (11.653828 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75560
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.175697 N, 82.750728 W
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Tusculum
Wikipedia
Tusculum is a ruined Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy.
Tusculum can refer to:
Tusculum is a historic home located near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It is a two-story Georgian and Federal style frame house built in two principal phases. The north section was built possibly as early as the 1750s, with the south section added about 1805. It sits on a brick and stone foundation and covered in beaded weatherboard siding. The house was acquired by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 2003.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Tusculum is a country estate in Princeton, New Jersey, built in 1773 for John Witherspoon, president of Princeton University and signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is named after the Roman town of Tusculum, which was home to the country villa of Marcus Tullius Cicero. The property was often visited by George Washington and his wife, Martha, during Witherspoon's tenure as president of Princeton University. In 2013 the home was sold for $5.5 million.
Tusculum is a historic plantation house located near Arcola, Warren County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a two-story, five bay, late Federal style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and has later shed roof porch. The front facade features a Palladian doorway with paneled pilasters and fanlight.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Usage examples of "tusculum".
The doleful report from Tusculum and the groundless fears of the City were followed by a laurelled despatch from Postumius announcing the victory of Rome and the annihilation of the Aequian army.
It was thus that the seats of the cardinal bishops, Porto, Ostia, Albanum, Tusculum, Praeneste, and Tibur or Tivoli, were successively overthrown by the ferocious hostility of the Romans.
It was thus that the seats of the cardinal bishops, Porto, Ostia, Albanum, Tusculum, Praeneste, and Tibur or Tivoli, were successively overthrown by the ferocious hostility of the Romans.
Pope Alexander being at Tusculum, whither he had been called by the inhabitants, that with his authority he might defend them from the Romans, ambassadors came to him from Henry, king of England, to signify that he was not blamable for the death of Thomas à Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, although public report had slandered him with it.
A lamb is said to have been yeaned at Tusculum with its udder full of milk.