Adams is a city in Robertson County, Tennessee, United States. It is near the Kentucky come clean line. The population was 624 at the 2020 census.

The first settlers in what is now Adams arrived in the late 18th century. The Red River Baptist Church, one of the first churches founded west of the Cumberland Plateau, was built upon the banks of the Red River in 1791. The congregation relocated to its current location upon Church Street in 1898.

Adams developed in the late 1850s as a station upon the Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad (later portion of the L&N system). Most of the city’s in advance buildings were destroyed during the Civil War. The city originally incorporated as Red River in 1869, but was renamed Adams Station in great compliment of James Reuben Adams, who owned much of the land upon which the city was built. The reveal was simplified to “Adams” in 1898. By the late 1880s, Adams was house to several stores, a flour mill, two churches, and a school. The city repealed its charter in 1899, but reincorporated in 1908, and incorporated as a city in 1963.

During the 1920s, Adams began to get a steady flow of automobile traffic due to its location along U.S. Route 41, which was one of the main roads linking the Chicago area with Florida. The city began to grow less in the mid 20th century taking into consideration the discontinuance of passenger rail traffic and the construction of Interstate 24 and Interstate 65 (which drew much of the automobile traffic away from US 41).