Sources

Every document cited in the investigation, exactly as it was filed, published, or recorded. Nothing here is a summary. Click any citation in the article and you land on the same file.

Where a document was captured from a page that has since changed or gone behind a block, the file header records the original URL, the archive copy, and the date it was retrieved.

Recorded interviews

• Transcript: Fenton on podcast full
  Whisper transcript of the episode audio · fenton-on-podcast-full.txt
• Transcript: Growing pains exploring the challenges in a thriving sumner county the truth about growth in small cities with mayor mike callis
  Whisper transcript of the episode audio · growing-pains-exploring-the-challenges-in-a-thriving-sumner-county-the-truth-about-growth-in-small-cities-with-mayor-mike-callis.txt

State records and statutes

• 1688-2023-c-gallatin-rpt-cpa811-12-21-23.txt
• 13682-2025-c-gallatinhhfb-rpt-cpa517-3-23-26.pdf
• 11278-2025-c-gallatinidb-rpt-cpa517-3-25-26-rev1.txt
• 12045-2025-c-westmorelandidb-rpt-cpa517-1-27-26.pdf
• 2014-06-12-cumulative-fiscal-note-2014-session.txt
• T.C.A. § 7-53-302 — Corporate powers of an Industrial Development Board
  Tennessee Code Annotated · tca-7-53-302-corporate-powers.pdf
• T.C.A. § 7-53-305 — Tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes
  Tennessee Code Annotated · tca-7-53-305-tax-exemption-pilot.pdf
• woolhawk-pilot-reporting.md
• 2016-08-tn-commerce-disciplinary-action-report.txt
• 2026-08-18-tn-accountancy-license-poole-john-russell.txt
• sumner-assessment-woolhawk.pdf
• idb-count-method.md

County and city records

• 2026-07-gallatin-civic-calendar.pdf
• 2026-08-19-gallatintn-boards-commissions.html
• 2026-08-19-gallatintn-industrial-development-board.html
• 2020-05-12-r2005-24-woolhawk-pilot-terms.txt
• 1994-2026-idb-gallatin.pdf
• report-gallatin-idb-bates.pdf
• report-gallatin-idb-leon.pdf
• Meta’s Gallatin Data Center (company fact sheet)
  Meta · metas-gallatin-data-center.pdf

Federal filings

• tn-idb-subsections.md
• idb2020.pdf
• idb2021.pdf
• idb2022.pdf
• idb2023.pdf
• idb2024.pdf

News coverage

• TVA clearing the air: Coal critics object to $1 billion investment in 60-year-old Gallatin plant
  Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 7, 2013 · 2013-04-07-timesfreepress-tva-1b-gallatin-steam-plant-upgrade.txt
• Haslam, Beretta USA Announce New Manufacturing Facility
  Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, January 29, 2014 · 2014-01-29-tnecd-beretta-gallatin-manufacturing-announcement.txt
• Facebook to Build $800 Million Data Center in Gallatin, Tennessee
  Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce (posted as a “blog” entry), August 11, 2020 · 2020-08-11-nashville-chamber-facebook-gallatin-verbatim-reprint.txt
• Gallatin lands Facebook data center
  Tennessee Lookout, August 12, 2020 · 2020-08-12-tennessee-lookout-gallatin-lands-facebook.txt
• Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Facebook to Build $800 Million Data Center in Gallatin
  Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (official press release), Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 06:00am · 2020-08-12-tnecd-press-release-facebook-gallatin.txt
• Facebook Building $800M Data Center In Tennessee
  Business Facilities Magazine, August 2020 · 2020-08-business-facilities-facebook-800m-tennessee.txt
• Country Music Star Rich’s Pressure Campaign Helped Save Tennessee County from TVA’s Eminent Domain
  Just The News, September 3, 2025 · 2025-09-03-justthenews-john-rich-tva-cheatham-eminent-domain.txt
• ‘We are listening’: TVA pauses Gallatin transmission line amid outcry from historic farm, country star
  WSMV 4 Nashville, February 20, 2026, 8:57 AM CST · 2026-02-20-wsmv-tva-pauses-gallatin-transmission-line-gregory-farm.txt
• What is DC BLOX? Developer behind data center near Nashville Zoo has faced pushback elsewhere
  The Tennessean (Nashville), Updated July 9, 2026 · 2026-07-09-tennessean-what-is-dc-blox-nashville-zoo-primer.txt