Jefferson Street Historic District (Brownsville, Tennessee)


The Jefferson Street Historic District in Brownsville, Tennessee is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
It is an area which "emerged in the early 1900s as the center for the city’s African-American community. While African Americans could shop in the white-owned businesses on the court square, they were often discriminated against. With the rise of the city’s African-American middle class, several businesses evolved along Jefferson Street. The majority of these buildings are One-Part and Two-Part Commercial Block buildings with modest detailing."
The listing included 13 contributing buildings and one contributing site, as well as three non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site.
The contributing resources are: