Your card for November 14, 2017
Lalita
Tennessee River
The city of Kingston served as Tennessee's state capital for
one day (September 21, 1807) as a result of treaties
negotiated with the Cherokee Indians. The two-hour legislative
session passed two resolutions and adjourned back to
Knoxville.
Andrew Johnson held every elective office at the local, state,
and federal level, including President of the United States.
He was elected alderman, mayor, state representative, and
state senator from Greeneville. He served as governor and
military governor of Tennessee and United States congressman,
senator, and vice president, becoming President of the United
States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Iroquois, bred at Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation, was the
first American winner of the English Derby in 1881. Such
modern thoroughbreds as Secretariat trace their bloodlines to
Iroquois.
Actress-singer Polly Bergen, from Knoxville, is the first
woman to serve on the Board of Directors of the Singer Sewing
Machine Company.
Tennessee won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the
War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed
marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans.
The Copper Basin is so different from the surrounding area it
has been seen and is recognizable by American astronauts. The
stark landscape was caused by 19th-century mining practices.
There were more National Guard soldiers deployed from the
state for the Gulf War effort than any other state.
There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any
other county in the United States.
The only person in American history to be both an Admiral in
the Navy and a General in the Army was Samuel Powhatan Carter
who was born in Elizabethton.
Greeneville has the only monument in the United States
honoring both the Union and Confederate armies. It is located
on the lawn of the Green County Courthouse.
The city of Murfreesboro lies in the exact geographical center
of the state.
Grinders Switch, entertainer Minnie Pearl's fictitious
hometown, is now an entertainment complex in her real hometown
of Centerville.
Conifer forests similar to those in Canada are found in the
higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Hattie Caraway (1878-1950) born in Bakersville became the
first woman United States Senator.
Davy Crockett was not born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, as
the song says. He was born on the banks of Limestone Creek
near Greeneville, where a replica of the Crockett's log cabin
stands today.
The Tennessee Aquarium is the largest facility of its kind to
focus on fresh water habitat. It features 7,000 animals and
300 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals.
The largest earthquake in American history, the New Madrid
Earthquake occurred in the winter of 1811-12 in northwestern
Tennessee. Reelfoot Lake located in Obion and Lake Counties
was formed during this earthquake.
Reputed "Turtle Capital of the World," Reelfoot Lake also
features thousands of sliders, stinkpots, mud and map turtles.
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest continuously running
live radio program in the world. It has broadcast every Friday
and Saturday night since 1925.
The legendary railroad engineer Casey Jones, who was killed
when his train crashed on April 30, 1900, lived in Jackson.
Oak Ridge was instrumental in the development of the atomic
bomb. Today, because of constant energy research, it is known
as the Energy Capital of the World.
Tennessee has more than 3,800 documented caves.
The Alex Haley boyhood home in Henning is the first
state-owned historic site devoted to African Americans in
Tennessee.
Bristol is known as the Birthplace of Country Music.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited
national park in the United States. The park was named for the
smoke-like bluish haze that often envelops these fabled
mountains.
Elvis Presley's home called Graceland is located in Memphis.
Graceland is the second most visited house in the country.
Knoxville was home to the 1982 World's Fair. Attendance was
recorded at 11,127,786 visitors.
Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union during
the Civil War and the first state to be readmitted after the
war.
The nation's oldest African-American architectural firm,
McKissack and McKissack, is located in Nashville.
The nation's oldest African-American financial institution,
Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, is located in
Nashville.
Robert R. Church, Sr. of Memphis is purported to be the
South's first African-American millionaire.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is at the Lorraine
Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The
museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the
American Civil Rights Movement.
A replica of The Parthenon, the famous ancient Greek building
in Athens, Greece, stands in Nashville's Centennial Park.
The "Guinness Book of World Records" lists the Lost Sea in
Sweetwater as the largest underground lake in the United
States.
The Cherokee silversmith, Sequoyah, was the only known man in
the history of the world to single-handedly develop an
alphabet. His syllabus for the Cherokee Nation resulted in the
first written language for a Native American people. The
Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore tells his story and is
dedicated to the history and culture of Native Americans.
The Watauga Association at Sycamore Shoals near Elizabethton
drafted the first constitution ever written by white men in
America in 1772. It was patterned after the constitution of
the Iroquois League of Nations, a federal system of government
developed 200 years earlier for five eastern Native American
tribes.
Gary Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of
Tennessee war hero Alvin York in the 1941 hit movie, Sergeant
York. World War I hero Sgt. Alvin C. York was born in Pall
Mall.
When Tennessee became a state in 1796, the total population
was 77,000.
The capitol building was designed by noted architect William
Strickland, who died during its construction and is buried
within its walls.
Tennessee ranks number one among other states in the total
number of soldiers who fought in the War Between the States.
Tennesseeans are sometimes referred to as Butternuts, a tag
which was first applied to Tennessee soldiers during the Civil
War because of the tan color of their uniforms.
The Ocoee River in southeastern Tennessee is rated among the
top white water recreational rivers in the nation and was the
site for the Olympic white water canoe/kayak competition in
the 1996 Olympics.
The name "Tennessee" originated from the old Yuchi Indian
word, "Tana-see," meaning "The Meeting Place."
Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville introduced to
the world the plaintive beauty and tradition of the Negro
spiritual, which became the basis for other genres of
African-American music. It was because of their successful
tours to raise funds for the university during the 1870s that
Nashville first became known for its music.
Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state in
the union. It is bordered by 8 states.
Dolly Parton is a native of Sevierville. A major highway, the
Dolly Parton Parkway, takes visitors traveling to the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park.
The world's largest artificial skiing surface is located at
the Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort in Gatlinburg. There a 5-acre
artificial ski surface permits skiing in any type of weather.
Coca-Cola was first bottle in 1899 at a plant on Patten
Parkway in downtown Chattanooga after two local attorneys
purchased the bottling rights to the drink for $l.00.
Cumberland University, located in Lebanon, lost a football
game to Georgia Tech on October 7, 1916 by a score of 222 to
0. The Georgia Tech coach was George Heisman for whom the
Heisman Trophy is named.
Cotton made Memphis a major port on the Mississippi River. The
Memphis Cotton Exchange still handles approximately one-third
of the entire American cotton crop each year.
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