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Welcome to Rock Bridge ...

Rock Bridge is located in Sumner County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rock Bridge, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1890.

A typical abbreviation for Rock Bridge: Rock Brg. (or less commonly used: Rock Brdg. or Rock Brdge.)

Rock Bridge is 920 feet [280 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Rock Bridge lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Rock Bridge: 615 & 629<3>

Communities Also Named Rock Bridge ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Rock Bridge - it's located in Georgia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Rock Bridge.

Communities near Rock Bridge ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Rock Bridge.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Rock Bridge. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Rock Bridge.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Rock Bridge. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rock Bridge.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Rock Bridge. See our Newspapers Page for Rock Bridge.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Rock Bridge ...

Looking for more information about Rock Bridge? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Rock Bridge, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Rock Bridge.

Adding Rock Bridge to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rock Bridge in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Rock Bridge was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

X2X - From that list, the Rock Bridge post office opened in 1890.

We also found Rock Bridge in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rock Bridge.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Rock Bridge. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Sumner County: www.sumnertn.org/

The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Sumner, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rock Bridge - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 615 code has been Overlayed with the 629 area code. New phone numbers in the Rock Bridge area will be assigned with one of these codes: 615 or 629. As a result, placing a call in the Rock Bridge area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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