Petros, Tennessee

Petros and Big Brushy Mountain, looking south from Frozen Head

Petros, (pronounced pee-tross) is an unincorporated town in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States, located on State Route 116.

Petros is historically a coal mining town and is also the home of (the now closed) Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Some of the town and coal mine scenes for the movie October Sky were filmed there.

External links

• Petros at the Open Directory Project
• Photos from TNGenWeb