Editing Monterey, Tennessee (section)

==History==
Monterey is rooted in a settlement that developed around a landmark known as the "Standing Stone" in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  The stone was as a guidepost for travelers along [[Avery's Trace]], and is believed to have earlier served as a boundary marker between the territories of the [[Cherokee]] and [[Shawnee]].<ref name=history />  By 1805, three families had settled permanently in area, and the Standing Stone Inn was established to cater to westward-bound migrants.<ref name=history />

[[File:montereystandingstone.jpg|thumb|left|The Standing Stone Monument]]

In the spring of 1864, during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], 200 Union soldiers led by Colonel [[William Brickly Stokes|William B. Stokes]] entered the Monterey area with orders to root out Confederate guerrilla activity. On the morning of March 12 of that year, Stokes' men entered the home of William Alexander Officer near Monterey and killed six of his guests, having accused them of being Confederate guerrillas.<ref>Op Walker, "[http://www.ajlambert.com/history/ct_uf.pdf Union Forces Massacred Several at Officer House 150 Years Ago]," AJLambert.com.  Originally published in the ''Cookville Herald-Citizen'', April 13, 2014.</ref>  A [[Tennessee Historical Commission]] marker on Commercial Avenue in Monterey remembers the event.

With the progress of the [[Tennessee Central Railway]] coming up the mountain from Cookeville, the Cumberland Mountain Coal Company, a group of 10 investors, bought property that contained coal from T.J. Whittaker. The company was interested in building a new company town to provide housing and commercial ventures for the workers. They hired Maj. Robert John Moscrip to lay out the new town. A contest was held to name it; Moscrip won. The new town was to be named “Monterey”, which meant "King of the Mountains", and coal was king. Moscrip continued engineering the railroad tracks out the Crawford Branch into Overton County. That line opened by 1894. He was also hired to open coal lands for the Alexander Crawford family up to 1904. A female contractor was hired, which was unheard of at the time, to build a portion of that line.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Moscrip made mark on Upper Cumberland|url=https://www.overtoncountynews.com/lifestyles/moscrip-made-mark-on-upper-cumberland/article_10dc7e62-579c-11ec-8fca-7f1dbe49f7e8.html|access-date=December 30, 2021|website=Overton County News|language=en}}</ref>

On the evening of April 3, 2020, the [[National Weather Service]] issued a [[flash flood warning]] for the watershed of the [[Calfkiller River]] due to the failure of the dam confining the town's municipal lake.<ref>[[WTVF]]-DT, Newschannel 5 at 6 PM, April 3, 2020</ref>