Cerro Gordo is an unincorporated community in Hardin County, Tennessee.

Cerro Gordo is located on the east bank of the Tennessee River, north of Savannah.

Twenty-six settlers, in two parties, struck out from Knoxville in late spring of 1816 bound for the general area which would eventually become Savannah.

Both had fought alongside their father in the war and had been likewise rewarded with land patents.

[4] Additional settlers from the initial expedition were dispatched almost immediately to establish a nearby community downriver at Saltillo.