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Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
MEDICINE - HOME
Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permittedHURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. An East Tennessee native, Hurst and his wife, Melocky, moved to McNairy County in West Tennessee about 1834 and gradually increased their land holdings while he worked as a surveyor. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s.HYTER, JAMES
James Hyter. (1922-) Written by Laura Nickas. 2 minutes to read. From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).GAYOSO HOTEL
A vision of grandeur for the developing river metropolis at Memphis, the Gayoso House was built by Robertson Topp, a wealthy young planter. Topp was involved in the development of South Memphis, an area of houses, commercial buildings, and a hotel designed to grace the young city with high architectural style. KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.) Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
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Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permittedHURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. An East Tennessee native, Hurst and his wife, Melocky, moved to McNairy County in West Tennessee about 1834 and gradually increased their land holdings while he worked as a surveyor. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s.HYTER, JAMES
James Hyter. (1922-) Written by Laura Nickas. 2 minutes to read. From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).GAYOSO HOTEL
A vision of grandeur for the developing river metropolis at Memphis, the Gayoso House was built by Robertson Topp, a wealthy young planter. Topp was involved in the development of South Memphis, an area of houses, commercial buildings, and a hotel designed to grace the young city with high architectural style. KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.) Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated.FAIRVUE PLANTATION
Fairvue was a 2000-acre working plantation devoted to cattle and thoroughbred horses. It included extensive stables and a training track. Brick slave quarters, an overseer’s house, and blacksmith shop still remain. In 1846 Isaac Franklin died. His will set up trusts for his children and provided for his wife until such time she mightremarry
TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state.BLACK BOTTOM
Black Bottom was notable as a Negro neighborhood in downtown Nashville until the 1950s. The area was nicknamed “Black Bottom” because of periodic river floods that left muddy residue on the streets. This area existed since 1832 as the Sixth Ward. On Nashville maps, the Sixth Ward had Broad Street as the north boundary and stretched fromGLENMORE MANSION
Glenmore Mansion. This twenty-seven-room, five-story Victorian house of handmade brick was built in 1868-69 in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City). Considered one of the state’s most nearly perfect examples of Second Empire style, Glenmore is now an Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) property.GAYOSO HOTEL
A vision of grandeur for the developing river metropolis at Memphis, the Gayoso House was built by Robertson Topp, a wealthy young planter. Topp was involved in the development of South Memphis, an area of houses, commercial buildings, and a hotel designed to grace the young city with high architectural style. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' HOME AND CEMETERY The cemetery, adjacent to the Hermitage Presbyterian Church, contains the remains of 487 veterans. The Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home closed on November 22, 1933, and the six veterans still living at the home moved to the Girls Infirmary at the Tennessee Industrial School. The home's last inmate died in 1941. STANDARD CANDY COMPANY Standard Candy Company. The maker of the famous Goo Goo Candy Cluster began as Anchor Candy Company, founded in 1901 in Nashville by Howell H. Campbell Sr. The son of Millard and Anna Hooper Campbell, Howell Campbell was born in 1883 in Nashville. After attending the public schools, he worked as a shipping clerk for Hooper Grocery Company for SECOND ARMY (TENNESSEE) MANEUVERS Second Army (Tennessee) Maneuvers. In the autumn of 1942, the War Department decided to resume field maneuvers in Middle Tennessee. Large-scale war games had been conducted in an area around Camp Forrest, near Tullahoma, the previous summer, and General George S. Patton had perfected the armored tactics that were to bring him fameand his
BROCK CANDY COMPANY
By 1950, the year Brock died, the original candy company had grown to encompass an entire block of downtown Chattanooga, including a five-story, 180,000-square-foot building. Pat Brock, a grandson of W. E. Brock, took charge of Brock Candy Company in the mid-1950s. The company continued to grow, adding a 64,000-square-foot warehouse just SWIFT MEMORIAL COLLEGE Swift Memorial College was a historically black college that operated in East Tennessee from 1883 to 1952. It was founded in Rogersville by the Reverend William H. Franklin, a graduate of Maryville College and the African American pastor of a local Presbyterian congregation. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permittedMEDICINE - HOME
Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGES The Hernando de Soto Bridge, named after the Spanish explorer who reached the Mississippi River in 1541, opened to automobile traffic on August 2, 1973. Construction of the five-and-a-half-mile, six-lane bridge cost fifty-seven million dollars. It formally opened August 17, 1973, with a ceremony in the middle of the bridge attended byTennessee
TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state.HURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. An East Tennessee native, Hurst and his wife, Melocky, moved to McNairy County in West Tennessee about 1834 and gradually increased their land holdings while he worked as a surveyor. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).ROBERTSON, JAMES
James Robertson. James Robertson, early leader of both the Watauga and Cumberland settlements, has been called the “Father of Middle Tennessee.”. Born in 1742 in Brunswick County, Virginia, he was the son of John and Mary Gower Robertson. Physically, Robertson stood close to six feet tall, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a faircomplexion.
BROCK CANDY COMPANY
By 1950, the year Brock died, the original candy company had grown to encompass an entire block of downtown Chattanooga, including a five-story, 180,000-square-foot building. Pat Brock, a grandson of W. E. Brock, took charge of Brock Candy Company in the mid-1950s. The company continued to grow, adding a 64,000-square-foot warehouse just NATIONAL LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY 2 minutes to read. While destined to become one of the top insurance companies in the nation, the National Life and Accident Insurance Company barely survived its first winter. C. A. Craig bought it for $17,250 on the Davidson County Courthouse steps on December 27, 1901. Previously administered by C. Runcie Clements, the company, thencalled
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Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
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Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permittedCARNTON PLANTATION
Carnton Plantation. The Carnton Plantation is a historic house museum located in Franklin. Randal McGavock (1768-1843), builder of Carnton, emigrated from Virginia in 1796 and settled in Nashville. He was involved in local and state politics and eventually served as mayor of Nashville, 1824-25. Around 1826 McGavock moved his family to the MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGES The Hernando de Soto Bridge, named after the Spanish explorer who reached the Mississippi River in 1541, opened to automobile traffic on August 2, 1973. Construction of the five-and-a-half-mile, six-lane bridge cost fifty-seven million dollars. It formally opened August 17, 1973, with a ceremony in the middle of the bridge attended byTennessee
TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state.HURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. An East Tennessee native, Hurst and his wife, Melocky, moved to McNairy County in West Tennessee about 1834 and gradually increased their land holdings while he worked as a surveyor. MEMPHIS NAVAL AIR STATION, MILLINGTON Memphis Naval Air Station, Millington. Aviation at this facility, the largest inland naval base in the world, dates back to World War I, when the U.S. Army created Park Field as a training ground for air and ground crews. The navy’s presence began in 1942 when the Park Field site and adjacent areas became first a Naval Reserve Air Base, then ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).ROBERTSON, JAMES
James Robertson. James Robertson, early leader of both the Watauga and Cumberland settlements, has been called the “Father of Middle Tennessee.”. Born in 1742 in Brunswick County, Virginia, he was the son of John and Mary Gower Robertson. Physically, Robertson stood close to six feet tall, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a faircomplexion.
HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
SLAVERY | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA Slavery. Written by Anita S. Goodstein. 7 minutes to read. In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would become Tennessee. Over time, East Tennessee, hilly and dominated by small farms, retained the fewest number of slaves.FORT CAMPBELL
Fort Campbell came into existence in 1941 as the United States prepared for war. In need of additional large training facilities, army planners chose an area northwest of Clarksville for a new camp. The site offered a substantial pool of local labor, good access to railroads and highways, reasonable proximity to Fort Knox, mildweather, and
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Dyer County. The Tennessee General Assembly established Dyer County in 1823 and named it in honor of Colonel Robert H. Dyer. John McIver and Joel H. Dyer donated sixty acres for the new county seat, named Dyersburg, at a central location within the county known as McIver's Bluff. In 1825 Joel Dyer surveyed the town site into eighty-six lots FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
FAIRVUE PLANTATION
Fairvue was a 2000-acre working plantation devoted to cattle and thoroughbred horses. It included extensive stables and a training track. Brick slave quarters, an overseer’s house, and blacksmith shop still remain. In 1846 Isaac Franklin died. His will set up trusts for his children and provided for his wife until such time she mightremarry
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR Spanish-American War. Written by Colin F. Baxter. 3 minutes to read. Tennesseans participated in virtually every aspect of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Commander Washburn Maynard (a Knoxville native) of the gunboat Nashville is credited with firing the first shot of the war on April 22. The same vessel was assigned the leadingrole in
SEVIER, CATHERINE SHERRILL Catherine Sherrill Sevier. Also known as “Bonnie Kate,” Catherine S. Sevier was the wife of John Sevier (1745-1815), Revolutionary War hero, Indian fighter, governor of the State of Franklin, and first governor of Tennessee. Legend has it that their courtship began after she was surprised by an Indian attack while milking a cow outside theBEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s. SECOND ARMY (TENNESSEE) MANEUVERS Second Army (Tennessee) Maneuvers. In the autumn of 1942, the War Department decided to resume field maneuvers in Middle Tennessee. Large-scale war games had been conducted in an area around Camp Forrest, near Tullahoma, the previous summer, and General George S. Patton had perfected the armored tactics that were to bring him fameand his
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Welcome to version 3.0 of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Explore hundreds of Entries, Images and Photo Galleries that cover the history and culture of the great Volunteer State!MEDICINE - HOME
John C. Gunn, Gunns Domestic Medicine (reprint, 1986); Philip Hamer, The Centennial History of the Tennessee State Medical Association 1830-1930 (1936); Timothy C. Jacobson, Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner (1987); James W. Livingood, Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society (1983); Samuel J. Platt and Mary L. Ogden, POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permitted TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v.BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867.HYTER, JAMES
From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. CHATTANOOGA PLOW COMPANY The Chattanooga Plow Company was once the largest factory in Chattanooga and an international leader in plow design and production. The company dates to the business activities of Newell Sanders, who arrived in Chattanooga in 1877 from Bloomington, Indiana, where he had owned and operated a bookstore for students of Indiana University. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
Welcome to version 3.0 of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Explore hundreds of Entries, Images and Photo Galleries that cover the history and culture of the great Volunteer State!MEDICINE - HOME
John C. Gunn, Gunns Domestic Medicine (reprint, 1986); Philip Hamer, The Centennial History of the Tennessee State Medical Association 1830-1930 (1936); Timothy C. Jacobson, Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner (1987); James W. Livingood, Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society (1983); Samuel J. Platt and Mary L. Ogden, POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permitted TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v.BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867.HYTER, JAMES
From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. CHATTANOOGA PLOW COMPANY The Chattanooga Plow Company was once the largest factory in Chattanooga and an international leader in plow design and production. The company dates to the business activities of Newell Sanders, who arrived in Chattanooga in 1877 from Bloomington, Indiana, where he had owned and operated a bookstore for students of Indiana University.HURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures.BLACK BOTTOM
J. F. Blumstein and B. Walter, eds., Growing Metropolis: Aspects of Development in Nashville (1975); Anita S. Goodstein, Nashville 1780-1860: From Frontier to City (1989); B. L. Lovett, The African American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas (1999); Nashville Colored Directory (1925); Nashville City Directory (1855-1955); J. Summerville, “The City and the SlumsEDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis.GLENMORE MANSION
This twenty-seven-room, five-story Victorian house of handmade brick was built in 1868-69 in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City). Considered one of the state’s most nearly perfect examples of Second Empire style, Glenmore is now an Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) property. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' HOME AND CEMETERY In January 1889 the Frank Cheatham Bivouac of the Association of Confederate Soldiers forwarded a bill to the Tennessee General Assembly to establish a home for indigent and disabled Confederate veterans on the grounds of the Hermitage.GAYOSO HOTEL
A vision of grandeur for the developing river metropolis at Memphis, the Gayoso House was built by Robertson Topp, a wealthy young planter. Topp was involved in the development of South Memphis, an area of houses, commercial buildings, and a hotel designed to grace the young city with high architectural style. SECOND ARMY (TENNESSEE) MANEUVERS In the autumn of 1942, the War Department decided to resume field maneuvers in Middle Tennessee. Large-scale war games had been conducted in an area around Camp Forrest, near Tullahoma, the previous summer, and General George S. Patton had perfected the armored tactics that were to bring him fame and his divisions victory in Europe.BROCK CANDY COMPANY
The Brock Candy Company dates to 1906, when William Emerson Brock, a traveling sales representative with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, purchased the Trigg Candy Company of SWIFT MEMORIAL COLLEGE Swift Memorial College was a historically black college that operated in East Tennessee from 1883 to 1952. It was founded in Rogersville by the Reverend William H. Franklin, a graduate of Maryville College and the African American pastor of a local Presbyterian congregation. KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.) Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
MEDICINE - HOME
Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permitted TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. The Edmondsons were staunch Confederates; two of Belle's brothers servedin the army.
JAMES HYTER
James Hyter. (1922-) Written by Laura Nickas. 2 minutes to read. From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores. CHATTANOOGA PLOW COMPANY The Chattanooga Plow Company was once the largest factory in Chattanooga and an international leader in plow design and production. The company dates to the business activities of Newell Sanders, who arrived in Chattanooga in 1877 from Bloomington, Indiana, where he had owned and operated a bookstore for students of Indiana University. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
MEDICINE - HOME
Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permitted TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. The Edmondsons were staunch Confederates; two of Belle's brothers servedin the army.
JAMES HYTER
James Hyter. (1922-) Written by Laura Nickas. 2 minutes to read. From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores. CHATTANOOGA PLOW COMPANY The Chattanooga Plow Company was once the largest factory in Chattanooga and an international leader in plow design and production. The company dates to the business activities of Newell Sanders, who arrived in Chattanooga in 1877 from Bloomington, Indiana, where he had owned and operated a bookstore for students of Indiana University.HURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. An East Tennessee native, Hurst and his wife, Melocky, moved to McNairy County in West Tennessee about 1834 and gradually increased their land holdings while he worked as a surveyor.WILSON COUNTY
Wilson County. The Tennessee General Assembly created Wilson County on October 26, 1799. Its prehistoric heritage is rich. The Sellars temple mound on Spring Creek, for example, yielded an outstanding piece of pre-Columbian sculpture that has been the emblem of the Tennessee Archaeological Society. Europeans explored the land long before STANDARD CANDY COMPANY Standard Candy Company. The maker of the famous Goo Goo Candy Cluster began as Anchor Candy Company, founded in 1901 in Nashville by Howell H. Campbell Sr. The son of Millard and Anna Hooper Campbell, Howell Campbell was born in 1883 in Nashville. After attending the public schools, he worked as a shipping clerk for Hooper Grocery Company forBROCK CANDY COMPANY
By 1950, the year Brock died, the original candy company had grown to encompass an entire block of downtown Chattanooga, including a five-story, 180,000-square-foot building. Pat Brock, a grandson of W. E. Brock, took charge of Brock Candy Company in the mid-1950s. The company continued to grow, adding a 64,000-square-foot warehouse justBLACK BOTTOM
Black Bottom was notable as a Negro neighborhood in downtown Nashville until the 1950s. The area was nicknamed “Black Bottom” because of periodic river floods that left muddy residue on the streets. This area existed since 1832 as the Sixth Ward. On Nashville maps, the Sixth Ward had Broad Street as the north boundary and stretched from OCONASTOTA | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA A prominent eighteenth-century Overhill Cherokee civil and military leader, Oconastota resided at Chota on the Little Tennessee River in present-day Monroe County. He was born around 1710. By the 1740s he had acquired the title Great Warrior of Chota. His reputation grew as he led successful war parties against the French and their Indianallies.
GAYOSO HOTEL
A vision of grandeur for the developing river metropolis at Memphis, the Gayoso House was built by Robertson Topp, a wealthy young planter. Topp was involved in the development of South Memphis, an area of houses, commercial buildings, and a hotel designed to grace the young city with high architectural style. SWIFT MEMORIAL COLLEGE Swift Memorial College was a historically black college that operated in East Tennessee from 1883 to 1952. It was founded in Rogersville by the Reverend William H. Franklin, a graduate of Maryville College and the African American pastor of a local Presbyterian congregation. SECOND ARMY (TENNESSEE) MANEUVERS Second Army (Tennessee) Maneuvers. In the autumn of 1942, the War Department decided to resume field maneuvers in Middle Tennessee. Large-scale war games had been conducted in an area around Camp Forrest, near Tullahoma, the previous summer, and General George S. Patton had perfected the armored tactics that were to bring him fameand his
KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.) Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated.MEDICINE - HOME
Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
SLAVERY | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA Slavery. Written by Anita S. Goodstein. 7 minutes to read. In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would become Tennessee. Over time, East Tennessee, hilly and dominated by small farms, retained the fewest number of slaves. POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permittedJOHNSON COUNTY
Johnson County. Located in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, Johnson County lies on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains. It is bounded by Virginia on the north and North Carolina on the south and east. Hilly and mountainous, the county covers approximately 290 square miles, and the highest elevation is SnakeMountain at
TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
GLENMORE MANSION
Glenmore Mansion. This twenty-seven-room, five-story Victorian house of handmade brick was built in 1868-69 in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City). Considered one of the state’s most nearly perfect examples of Second Empire style, Glenmore is now an Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) property.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. The Edmondsons were staunch Confederates; two of Belle's brothers servedin the army.
ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.)KINGSPORT BOOK INCKINGSPORT PRESSKINGSPORT PRESS CREDIT UNIONKINGSPORT BOOK CHURCH HILL TN Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated.MEDICINE - HOME
Medicine. A rich source of herbal and root remedies derived from indigenous American plants greeted newcomers to the Tennessee backcountry in the eighteenth century. James Adair, an early white Indian trader of the trans-Allegheny region that is now Tennessee, described remedies skillfully applied by the Cherokees to heal thesick, injured, or
SLAVERY | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA Slavery. Written by Anita S. Goodstein. 7 minutes to read. In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would become Tennessee. Over time, East Tennessee, hilly and dominated by small farms, retained the fewest number of slaves. POCKET WILDERNESS AREAS Pocket Wilderness Areas are part of a conservation program involving a corporate-state partnership. Beginning in 1970, the Hiwassee Land Company of the Bowater Southern Paper Corporation developed in Tennessee four pocket wilderness areas, defined as “a pocket of land set aside for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permittedJOHNSON COUNTY
Johnson County. Located in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, Johnson County lies on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains. It is bounded by Virginia on the north and North Carolina on the south and east. Hilly and mountainous, the county covers approximately 290 square miles, and the highest elevation is SnakeMountain at
TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas Oscar Fuller. Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867. His father, J. Henderson Fuller, was a carpenter who bought his freedom from slavery and became a landowner in post-Civil War North Carolina.He
GLENMORE MANSION
Glenmore Mansion. This twenty-seven-room, five-story Victorian house of handmade brick was built in 1868-69 in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City). Considered one of the state’s most nearly perfect examples of Second Empire style, Glenmore is now an Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) property.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. The Edmondsons were staunch Confederates; two of Belle's brothers servedin the army.
ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Lynn Cain. (1939-) Written by June Adamson. < 1 minutes to read. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.)KINGSPORT BOOK INCKINGSPORT PRESSKINGSPORT PRESS CREDIT UNIONKINGSPORT BOOK CHURCH HILL TN Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA Lamar Alexander. Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster,Alexander.
MEXICAN WAR
Mexican War. In 1846 the United States went to war with Mexico as a result of a boundary dispute fueled by an American expansionist desire to control the entire North American continent. With an army of fewer than 9,000, a number wholly inadequate to wage war in a foreign country, officials in Washington issued a call for volunteers. TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state.HURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. An East Tennessee native, Hurst and his wife, Melocky, moved to McNairy County in West Tennessee about 1834 and gradually increased their land holdings while he worked as a surveyor. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR Spanish-American War. Written by Colin F. Baxter. 3 minutes to read. Tennesseans participated in virtually every aspect of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Commander Washburn Maynard (a Knoxville native) of the gunboat Nashville is credited with firing the first shot of the war on April 22. The same vessel was assigned the leadingrole in
GAYOSO HOTEL
A vision of grandeur for the developing river metropolis at Memphis, the Gayoso House was built by Robertson Topp, a wealthy young planter. Topp was involved in the development of South Memphis, an area of houses, commercial buildings, and a hotel designed to grace the young city with high architectural style. NASHVILLE RECORDING INDUSTRY 8 minutes to read. The Nashville recording industry actually began after World War II, although there were several earlier events and factors that played a significant role in its success. During the 1920s and 1930s recording executives traveled across the country, making field recordings of local talent. The birth of contemporarycountry music
JAMES HYTER
James Hyter. (1922-) Written by Laura Nickas. 2 minutes to read. From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores.BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s.BROCK CANDY COMPANY
By 1950, the year Brock died, the original candy company had grown to encompass an entire block of downtown Chattanooga, including a five-story, 180,000-square-foot building. Pat Brock, a grandson of W. E. Brock, took charge of Brock Candy Company in the mid-1950s. The company continued to grow, adding a 64,000-square-foot warehouse just HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
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John C. Gunn, Gunns Domestic Medicine (reprint, 1986); Philip Hamer, The Centennial History of the Tennessee State Medical Association 1830-1930 (1936); Timothy C. Jacobson, Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner (1987); James W. Livingood, Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society (1983); Samuel J. Platt and Mary L. Ogden, SLAVERY | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would becomeTennessee.
JOHNSON COUNTY
Located in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, Johnson County lies on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains. It is bounded by Virginia onGLENMORE MANSION
This twenty-seven-room, five-story Victorian house of handmade brick was built in 1868-69 in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City). Considered one of the state’s most nearly perfect examples of Second Empire style, Glenmore is now an Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) property. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. LILLARD, ROBERT EMMITT Nashville councilman, judge, and civil rights activist, Robert E. Lillard was born March 23, 1907, in Nashville, to John W. and VirginiaAllen Lillard.
KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.)KINGSPORT BOOK INCKINGSPORT PRESSKINGSPORT PRESS CREDIT UNIONKINGSPORT BOOK CHURCH HILL TN Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIAABOUTCATEGORIESOBJECTSCONTACTDONATETOGGLESLIDING BAR
Welcome to version 3.0 of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Explore hundreds of Entries, Images and Photo Galleries that cover the history and culture of the great Volunteer State!MEDICINE - HOME
John C. Gunn, Gunns Domestic Medicine (reprint, 1986); Philip Hamer, The Centennial History of the Tennessee State Medical Association 1830-1930 (1936); Timothy C. Jacobson, Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner (1987); James W. Livingood, Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society (1983); Samuel J. Platt and Mary L. Ogden, SLAVERY | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would becomeTennessee.
JOHNSON COUNTY
Located in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, Johnson County lies on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains. It is bounded by Virginia onGLENMORE MANSION
This twenty-seven-room, five-story Victorian house of handmade brick was built in 1868-69 in Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City). Considered one of the state’s most nearly perfect examples of Second Empire style, Glenmore is now an Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) property. FULLER, THOMAS OSCAR Thomas O. Fuller, prominent African American church and civic leader and author in early twentieth-century Memphis, was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1867.EDMONDSON, BELLE
Belle Edmondson, Confederate smuggler, was born in Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War her family moved to a Shelby County farm on Holly Ford Road (now Airways Boulevard), about three miles from the Mississippi border and eight miles southeast of Memphis. ROBERT "BOBBY" CAIN JR. Bobby Cain became the first African American student to graduate from a public formally segregated white high school in Tennessee during the immediate controversial years of integration following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. LILLARD, ROBERT EMMITT Nashville councilman, judge, and civil rights activist, Robert E. Lillard was born March 23, 1907, in Nashville, to John W. and VirginiaAllen Lillard.
KINGSPORT PRESS (QUEBECOR WORLD, INC.)KINGSPORT BOOK INCKINGSPORT PRESSKINGSPORT PRESS CREDIT UNIONKINGSPORT BOOK CHURCH HILL TN Kingsport Press was a powerful Tennessee presence in the publishing world for fifty years. The press was initially established in 1922 by Blair and Company, the New York bankers who financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, with John B. Dennis as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, Incorporated. HOME | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA Welcome to version 3.0. Rebuilt from the ground up to be a better, faster, more comprehensive source for historians, teachers, students, and anyone interested in exploring the history of the Volunteer State.MEXICAN WAR
In 1846 the United States went to war with Mexico as a result of a boundary dispute fueled by an American expansionist desire to control the entire North American continent. TOBACCO | TENNESSEE ENCYCLOPEDIA When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to till the soil, the production of tobacco was one of the first crops. Since those early days, dollars received for tobacco crops have paid for farms and homes, provided money for Christmas, sent children to college, and added millions of dollars each year to the tax coffers of the state. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR Tennesseans participated in virtually every aspect of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Commander Washburn Maynard (a Knoxville native) of the gunboat Nashville is credited with firing the first shot of the war on April 22.HURST, FIELDING
Fielding Hurst, a staunch southern Unionist during the Civil War, led the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry (USA) and proved to be one of the war’s most polarizing figures. UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS The United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) in Tennessee experienced every facet of war between 1863 and 1865. In the spring of 1863 General Lorenzo Thomas was appointed Commissioner for the Organization of Colored Troops for the Union army in Tennessee.JAMES HYTER
From 1978 to 1997, the annual Memphis in May Festival culminated with vocalist James Hyter’s performance at the Sunset Symphony. Each year, audiences sang along with Hyter’s rendition of the show tune “Ol’ Man River” and repeatedly called for encores. NASHVILLE RECORDING INDUSTRY The Nashville recording industry actually began after World War II, although there were several earlier events and factors that played a significant role in its success.BEBB, HUBERT
Originally from Illinois, Hubert Bebb was an innovative architect who worked in Tennessee for the major part of his career. He moved to Gatlinburg in 1950, after having worked for the Chicago firm of Armstrong, Furst and Tilton in the late 1940s.BROCK CANDY COMPANY
The Brock Candy Company dates to 1906, when William Emerson Brock, a traveling sales representative with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, purchased the Trigg Candy Company of* Home
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One of the wealthiest women of the antebellum South, Adelicia Acklen was born March 15, 1817, the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes, a prominent Nashville lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister, land speculator, and cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes.ROY C. ACUFF
Roy Acuff, known as the "King of Country Music" due to his long association with the Grand Ole Opry, was born in Maynardville, Union County, on September 15, 1903. At age sixteen, he moved with his family to a Knoxville…LAMAR ALEXANDER
Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster, Alexander…JOHNNY CASH
Johnny Cash, musician, actor, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Ray and Carrie River Cash on February 26, 1932. After graduating from high school in Dyess, Arkansas, in 1950, Cash bounced… CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO HOTEL This landmark Chattanooga hotel located on Market Street in downtown Chattanooga initially served as the Southern Railway Terminal. Designed by Beaux-Arts-trained architect Donn Barber of New York City, this magnificent architectural gateway to the Deep South opened duringthe Christmas…
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Like other states of the American South, Tennessee has a history which includes both slavery and racial segregation. In some ways, however, the history of the relationship between the races in the Volunteer State more closely resembles that of a…CIVIL WAR
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The National Campground, located in rural Loudon County, has held religious camp meetings since the late Reconstruction era. In 1873 individuals from congregations representing the Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Friends (Quakers), and the Methodist Episcopal Church… PORT ROYAL STATE HISTORIC AREA The thirty-four-acre site of Port Royal in Montgomery County preserves one of Middle Tennessee's earliest settlement areas. The first permanent settlers arrived in 1784, and the first meeting of the Tennessee County Court, North Carolina, was held nearby in 1788.… * 305 Sixth Ave. North * Nashville, TN 37243* (615) 741-8934
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