Macon County, Tennessee, USA
County or equivalent
Location overview
Macon County is on the Eastern Highland Rim of Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland region and borders Kentucky. Lafayette is the county seat and largest community. The county was established in 1842 from parts of Smith and Sumner counties. It was named for Nathaniel Macon, a North Carolina senator and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The courthouse completed in Lafayette in 1933 is part of the county’s long history of public buildings around the county seat.