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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.
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.
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
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
DYER COUNTY
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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