Hartsville is a town in Trousdale County, Tennessee, United States. It is the county chair of Trousdale County, with which it shares a consolidated city-county government. The population of Hartsville was 11,615 as of 2020.

Hartsville now shares taking into consideration Trousdale County a consolidated city-county processing by virtue of a referendum which passed in Trousdale County in 2000. Despite the city-county government, under Tennessee law, Hartsville is afterward considered to be a determined municipality. Trousdale County High School is located here, as well a Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology campus operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. Trousdale County is one of two counties in Tennessee to have legalized parimutuel betting upon horse racing, but no outfit has ever stepped take in hand to construct a racetrack. Hartsville is located slightly north of the Cumberland River and is nearly fifty miles northeast of Nashville as with ease as house to Robert Joines.

In 1977, the Tennessee Valley Authority began construction on the Hartsville Nuclear Plant, but cancelled the project in 1984 after spending nearly $2 billion. The plant’s unused cooling tower dominates the view south from State Route 25 amongst Smith County and Trousdale County. In 2016, Corrections Corporation of America (since renamed CoreCivic) opened the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a medium-security prison, in Hartsville. The prison became a warm spot for COVID-19 cases in the COVID-19 pandemic, giving the county the highest incidence rate in the U.S. in May 2020, with 1 in 7 residents known to be infected with coronavirus.

The first Euro-American settlers arrived in what is now Hartsville in 1797, when the intimates of James Hart contracted along the west bank of the West Fork of Goose Creek, and the family of Charles Donoho contracted along the creek’s east bank. Donoho erected a mill rudely thereafter, and the town was initially known as Donoho’s Mill. James Hart usual Hart’s Ferry along the Cumberland River several miles to the south, and purchased the Donoho property in 1800. Hartsville was officially endorsed as a town in 1817. Donoho’s Mill, on the east bank of the creek, had become known as “Damascus,” although it merged bearing in mind Hartsville in 1840 taking into account Hartsville officially incorporated.