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99 unusual facts about Tennessee


13th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

The 13th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Strawberry Plains, Gallatin and Nashville, Tennessee and mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel John K. Miller.

1st Arkansas Light Artillery

Then marched overland to Des Arc where the army was transported by steamboat to Memphis in an attempt to unite the Army of the West with the Confederate Army of Mississippi to attack Grant at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but arrived too late for the Battle of Shiloh.

A Death in the Family

The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the dead man's alcoholic brother.

Alex Haley's Queen

In truth at the time of the applicable setting there was in Memphis no normal school which enrolled black students; Simon actually went to Lane College, a black school in Jackson, Tennessee, where he met and began to court Bertha George Palmer, from Henning, Tennessee.

Andrew Stahl

He currently lives on his family farm in Butler County, Kentucky and works out of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee.

Better Get to Livin'

The music video for "Better Get to Livin'" is set in a carnival, filmed on location at a farm in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Bluff City

Memphis, Tennessee is often referred to as "The Bluff City" due to its location on a bluff on the Mississippi River

Braden

Braden, Union County, Tennessee, unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States

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Braden, Tennessee, town in Fayette County, Tennessee, United States

Brooke Annibale

Brooke Annibale (born July 1987) is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, and based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Brother Henry

Brother Henry is a rock 'n' roll band from Nashville, Tennessee.

Bud Hedinger

He worked at WFTV in Orlando from 1986 until 1989 and then worked at a TV station in Nashville before returning to Orlando in 1993.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority

:Northgate Mall, Hixson Pike, Riverview, Highland Plaza, Lowe's, Kmart, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby

Chilhowee Inn

Chilhowee Inn opened as a bed and breakfast in February 2008 which makes it the oldest actively operating inn in Blount County.

Christie Murray

Aged 16, she moved to Jefferson City, Tennessee on a soccer scholarship and scored six goals for the Lady Eagles.

Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway

Somerset to Hixson, Tennessee, is dispatched by the South End Dispatcher, Knoxville.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

Dennis Clifton

After FCC disbanded, Clifton became a studio musician, playing guitar and adding background vocals for musicians in Nashville, Tennessee.

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Enoch Tanner Wickham

One of his largest statues was a Memorial to honor his son Ernest Wickham and other local soldiers of Montgomery County, Tennessee who died in World War II.

Eugene Maxwell Frank

He was survived by his daughters and sons-in-law Wilmagene and Lewis Noonan of Leawood, Kansas and Susan and Mark Parsons of Ashbourne, Derbyshire in the U.K.; by a daughter, Gretchen Frank Beal of Knoxville, Tennessee, and son and daughter-in-law, Thomas E. Frank and Gail O'Day of Atlanta.

Fantastic Sams

Fantastic Sams was founded in 1974 by Sam Ross in Memphis, Tennessee.

Frank Lawrence Owsley

As an active member of the Southern Agrarians group based in Nashville, Owsley contributed "The Irrepressible Conflict" to the manifesto I'll Take My Stand (1930).

George Washington Lent Marr

One of the largest landowners in west Tennessee, Marr moved from Clarksville to Obion County in 1821.

Gibson County, Tennessee

It is included in the Jackson - Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area.

Glencoe I

After Jackson's death in 1840, Glencoe was sent to stand in Nashville, Tennessee, for a fee of $50.

Goodale Sisters

Later she was a teacher and director of the Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.

Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee

Just west of Gruetli-Laager, TN-108 intersects Tennessee Highway 56, which connects the area to Monteagle and Interstate 24 to the southwest and McMinnville to the northwest.

Hall income tax

Both of the bill's sponsors represent Cumberland County, the location of retirement communities including Fairfield Glade and Lake Tansi.

Happy Valley, Tennessee

Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a Manhattan Project construction camp; no longer in existence

Hardeman County, Tennessee

Hardeman County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1823 from parts of Hardin County and "Indian lands." It is named for Thomas Jones Hardeman (1788-1854), a Creek War and War of 1812 veteran and prominent figure in the fight for Texas independence, and a Republic of Texas congressman.

Harry Long

He was the fifth head college football coach for the Tennessee State University Tigers located in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1928 season.

Harvey Marion LaFollette

The town that grew up around his business venture was named LaFollette in his honor and became the county seat of Campbell County.

Henry Gross

Gross moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1986 and signed a publishing deal with Pic-A-Lic Music, a company owned by Roger Cook and Ralph Murphy.

Holland McCombs

Born in Martin, Tennessee, Holland McCombs became a correspondent for TIME magazine in 1935, and later bureau chief for TIME and LIFE magazine in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Dallas.

Humphreys County, Tennessee

When the western half of the county was split off to form Benton County in 1835, the seat was moved to the more centrally located Waverly.

Huron, Indiana

In Kentucky, 3985 was decided to host the annual CSX Clinchfield Santa Train which runs over the former Clinchfield Railroad between Elkhorn City, Kentucky and Kingsport, Tennessee.

Jackson Blue Jays

Based in Jackson, Tennessee, they were the first team from that city since 1911.

James Carter and the Prisoners

Carter flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy Award ceremony and to Tennessee for the benefit concert held in Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which featured repeat performances by the performers of other numbers on the soundtrack (although Carter himself did not perform).

James Ernest Karnes

James Ernest "Buck" Karnes (July 20, 1889–July 8, 1966), was born in Arlington, Tennessee and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.

James L. Wattenbarger

A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, Dr. Wattenbarger is credited as being the Father of the Community College System of Florida.

Jason Bare

After high school, Bare moved to Cleveland, Tennessee to attend the Lee University, where he was a vocal performance major and a member of The Lee Singers performance group.

Jason McAddley

He played his high school football at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and went to the University of Alabama.

Jim Photoglo

After his career as a pop star waned, he became a successful country music songwriter in Nashville.

Jody McCrea

He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA, an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country entertainers.

John Hervey Crozier

John Hervey Crozier (February 10, 1812 – October 25, 1889) was an American attorney and politician active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, during the mid-nineteenth century.

John T. Wilder

In 1867, he founded an ironworks in the Chattanooga region, then built and operated the first two blast furnaces in the South at Rockwood, Tennessee.

Joseph McMinn

In 1823, he moved to a farm along the Hiwassee River near Calhoun, Tennessee, and served as an agent for the federal government at the nearby Cherokee Agency until the time of his death.

Karg Brothers

The Karg Brothers are an acoustic rock duo with a country music edge based out of Nashville, TN.

Karns High School

Karns High School is a public high school in the Karns community of Knox County, Tennessee administered by the Knox County Schools public school district.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Konrad Dannenberg

Dannenberg retired from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1973 and became an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Linda St. Clair

Linda St. Clair was born in Franklin, Tennessee and spent most of her childhood on a small farm in College Grove, Tennessee as one of four children of Sarah and Alvin White.

Lower Broadway

Lower Broadway is an entertainment district of Nashville, Tennessee.

Marion Keisker

Marion Keisker MacInnes (September 23, 1917 – December 29, 1989), born in Memphis, Tennessee, was a radio show host, station manager, U.S. Air Force officer, and assistant to Sam Phillips at Sun Records.

Mark E. Clayton

His father died in 2004 and Clayton purchased a 1920s-era farmhouse on three acres in Whites Creek in suburban Davidson County.

Mark Shannon

He returned to Oklahoma City after a stint on AM news/talk station WLAC in Nashville.

Memphis Cotton Exchange

The Memphis Cotton Exchange is located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, USA, on the corner of Front Street and Union Avenue.

Merve Terzioğlu

Merve Terzioğlu (24 February 1987 in Istanbul, Turkey-7 April 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.) was a Turkish female swimmer in the sports club Galatasaray the latest and before that (2002-2006) in Fenerbahçe, both teams in leading positions nationally in Turkey.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Murder of Jessica Currin

In March 2007, Quincy Omar Cross of Tiptonville, Tennessee, was charged with the murder and in April 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Music City Center

The Music City Center is a convention complex located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority

Outside of Davidson County, MTA collaborates with the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to provide express service to Brentwood, Franklin, Gallatin, Hendersonville, Lavergne, Smyrna, Murfreesboro, Spring Hill, Joelton and Springfield.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee

See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Sumner County, Tennessee for additional properties in Goodlettsville, a city that spans the county line.

National Safety Associates

National Safety Associates (NSA) is a privately owned marketing company based in Collierville, Tennessee, best known for selling a line of water and air filters, and then the nutritional supplement Juice Plus, via multi-level marketing.

Newport, Tennessee

US-70 continues east to Del Rio, Tennessee and Hot Springs, North Carolina, while US-321 turns north and crosses the Pigeon and French Broad en route to Greeneville and northeastern Tennessee.

North Springs

North Springs, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Tennessee

Obong University

It is associated with the Churches of Christ, and its sponsoring congregation is the Rivergate Church of Christ in Madison, Tennessee.

Old Town, Tennessee

the former settlement of Hardinville, Tennessee, which by the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War had been renamed Old Town

Othello, Washington

The post office was named Othello after a post office also called Othello in Roane County, Tennessee.

Outsiders Inn

Episode Two, titled "Pigeon Idol," was shot at Fiddler's Roost in Parrottsville, Tennessee on June 15, 2008, where the celebs judged a talent contest hosted by Ross Mathews from The Tonight Show.

Oxnard Air Force Base

The 354th FIS remained at Oxnard until 1955 when it was reassigned to McGhee Tyson Airport/McGhee Tyson AFB, near Knoxville, Tennessee to provide air defense for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Rhoades Car

Rhoades Car, founded in 1991, is located in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA.

Richard Walker Bolling

He then attended the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he studied literature and French, earning a B.A. in 1937 and an M.A., 1939.

Roark Bradford

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896 Lauderdale County, Tennessee — November 13, 1948 New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American short story writer and novelist.

Rocky Mount

Rocky Mount, Tennessee, historic first capital of the Southwest Territory

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

Semie Moseley

In 1959, Andy moved to Nashville, Tennessee for a year to popularize the Mosrite name and sold a few to Grand Ole Opry entertainers, people, and to road musicians.

Sonny Smith

Originally from Roan Mountain, Tennessee, Smith served as a head coach for twenty-two seasons.

Stephen Fincher

They live in Frog Jump, an unincorporated community just outside Halls.

Steve McManus

Steve McManus is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 10th district, encompassing Cordova and part of Shelby County.

Tennessee's Partner

As the character based on Bob Gaudio explains in the musical Jersey Boys, "I'm watching the million dollar movie. Some cheesy John Payne western. He hauls off and smacks Rhonda Fleming across the mouth and says, 'What do you think of that?' She looks up at him defiant, proud, eyes glistening - and she says, 'Big girls don't cry.'"

Thomas Clarke Rye

Rye was born in Benton County, Tennessee, the son of Wayne Rye, a merchant, and Elizabeth (Atchison) Rye.

Tommy Laurendine

Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.

Tony Shipley

Born in Blountville, Tennessee, Shipley is a graduate of Sullivan Central High School and also a 1976 graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

United States open container laws

The entertainment district along Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, is specially exempt from both Tennessee's statewide open container ban and Memphis's local open container ban, thereby permitting the open consumption of alcoholic beverages on the street.

Unmatched Brutality Records

Unmatched Brutality is a record label based out of Powell, Tennessee.

WABG-TV

Until then, the only areas of the state to receive a sole ABC affiliate were the northwest (from Memphis' WHBQ-TV) and the Gulf Coast (from WVUE in New Orleans).

WHBQ-FM

WHBQ-FM's main antenna is in Cordova, Tennessee covering the central and northern portions of the Memphis area.

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

William Frierson Cooper

His father was a merchant who later became a banker in Columbia, Tennessee.

William Glenn Terrell

In 1903, when he was about 25, Glenn Terrell earned his law degree, an LL.B., from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.

WKNX-TV

Both share its studios on Cogdill Road in unincorporated Western Knox County.

Would You Go with Me

The music video for "Would You Go with Me" was shot in an abandoned farmhouse in Watertown, Tennessee using green and blue screens.

WPXX-TV

WPXX maintains studios and offices located at the Bartlett Corporate Park in Bartlett, and its transmitter is located in Ellendale.

Wrapped Up in You

This video was directed by Jon Small, and was shot in Watertown, Tennessee.

WSIL-TV

However, some parts of Southeastern Missouri could not receive channel 3's signal clearly, presumably because WSIL had to conform it to protect WREC-TV (now WREG-TV) in Memphis, Tennessee in the next market to the south.

WVTS

There is another Supertalk station also owned by Bristol Broadcasting in the Tri-Cities area of TN / VA.


1981 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.

19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Andrea Conte

Following their marriage, she obtained a job with Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, TN, and the couple moved to Tennessee in 1975.

Appalachian stereotypes

The Beverly Hillbillies are of course the quintessential Appalachian stereotypes, despite being Ozarkian (excepting Granny Moses from Appalachian Tennessee), who arrive in Beverly Hills never having seen a telephone or electricity before.

Army of Central Kentucky

The Department No. 2 (Western Department) was created on June 25, 1861, under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, and had military jurisdiction and control over parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Battle of Piedmont

On Imboden's immediate left, Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn's brigade of dismounted Tennessee and Georgia horsemen went into position.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Canning Dam

Many old concrete dams are known to suffer from AAR, including Fontana Dam in Tennessee and Pian Telessio dam in Italy among others.

Carpenter, Kentucky

Carpenter was named for its first postmaster and doctor, Ensley A. Carpenter, who moved to Whitley County shortly after the Civil War from neighboring Claiborne County, Tennessee.

Cumberland Airport

Upper Cumberland Regional Airport serving Sparta, Tennessee, United States (FAA: SRB)

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Eagle Bus

Officials from Silver Eagle joined Governor Phil Bredesen, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber, and local officials in announcing the project.

Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV

In the 2000 film Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character returns from being stranded on an island for four years to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

Food City

K-VA-T Food City, a U.S. supermarket chain with stores located in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders (Tennessee), the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863

Georgia v. Smith

The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986.

Hansjörg Göritz

2013 American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, University of Tennessee, for Rome research proposal 'Intra Murus', including studies on Louis I. Kahn's 1951 AAR residence

Highway Don't Care

It was made in partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee and highlights the dangers of driving while distracted, particularly texting and driving.

John Wood Dodge

Some of his paintings are exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. as well as the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

LBMS

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title defended in the US states of Tennessee and Alabama.

Opryland

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - formerly known as "Opryland Hotel", located in Nashville, Tennessee

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

Rhodes Colleges

Rhodes College, a private, four-year liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

Sequatchie Valley

The Sequatchie River drains the valley in Tennessee, flowing south to southwest from the southern part of Cumberland County, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near the Alabama border.

Shawn Sturgeon

He was a Charles Phelps Taft Fellow and studied Mexican literature and culture while living in Mexico, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar and Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Shelby Forest

Shelby Forest, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee

StumpJump 50k

The annual event takes place the first Saturday in October on the Signal Mountain, Tennessee, portion of the Cumberland Trail.

Tennessee login law

On June 1, 2011 Tennessee lawmakers passed a new bill that makes sharing login information for sites that provide music and movies, such as Netflix and Napster, illegal.

Tennessee Railroad

In 1991, American country music band The Desert Rose Band filmed part of their music video for the single "You Can Go Home" at the Tennessee Railroad Museum.

Tennessee State Route 168

John Sevier Highway, is an east to west secondary highway in Knox County, Tennessee, that is 18.1 miles (29.2 km) long.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

TPAC

Tennessee Performing Arts Center, a performing arts facility in Nashville, Tennessee.

WATN

WATN-TV, a television station (channel 25/PSIP 24) licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States

WBIN

WSAA, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Benton, Tennessee, United States, known as WBIN-FM from 1996 to 1998

West Tennessee

Two future interstates are to travel in West Tennessee: Interstate 69 and Interstate 22.