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  • The population of Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee is of African Americans diproportionate to that of the wider area. After the Civil War a Nashville newspaper recounted the story of a racially-based confrontation in 1868, during the Reconstruction period. The only operating school for blacks in Dickson County was located here at this time. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Furnace%2C_Tennessee

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