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McNairy County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 24,653. Its county seat is Selmer, pop. 4,500,6. McNairy County is located along the northern border of the state of Mississippi. The notable sheriff, Buford Pusser, served as the sheriff of McNairy County from 1964 to 1970, and since Selmer is the county seat, the location of the courthouse and the jail, that was his base of operations. Pusser was prominent in fighting illegal distilleries, bootleggers, gambling establishments, and corruption in McNairy county. His story has been made famous in the Walking Tall series of movies starring Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson The major highways U.S. Route 64 (east-west), and U.S. Route 45 (north-south) intersect in McNairy County and mutually bisect it into four parts. McNairy County's position on Route 64 places it on the historic Lee Highway, which stretches from New York to San Francisco. McNairy County is also the location of the Coon Creek Science Center, a notable fossil site, located in Leapwood,over the Coon Creek Formation that preserves Late Cretaceous marine shells and vertebrate remains (such as mosasaurs) left there 70 million years ago when the Gulf of Mexico receded towards the south. Timeline
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