Sewanee is an unincorporated town in
Franklin County,
Tennessee,
United States, treated by the U.S. Census as a
census-designated place (CDP). The
population was 2,361 at the
2000 census. Sewanee lies on the mountainous
Cumberland Plateau in the southeastern part of
Middle Tennessee. It is best known as the home of
The University of the South, and for the
Sewanee Review, published there continuously since 1892. Nearby
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, one of the oldest boarding-day schools in the South, is a
private school for grades 6 through 12 with a student population of 100 boarding and 150 day students. The Templeton Library, which is to be the repository of the papers of financier
Sir John Templeton, a native of the area, was recently built there.
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