Tennessee is geographically, culturally, and legally divided into threeGrand Divisions ofEast,Middle, andWest Tennessee.Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, and anchors its largest metropolitan area. Tennessee has diverse terrain and landforms, and from east to west, contains a mix of cultural features characteristic ofAppalachia, theUpland South, and theDeep South. TheBlue Ridge Mountains along the eastern border reach some of the highest elevations in eastern North America, and theCumberland Plateau contains many scenic valleys andwaterfalls. The central part of the state is marked by cavernous bedrock and irregular rolling hills, and level, fertile plains define West Tennessee. The state is twice bisected by theTennessee River, and theMississippi River forms its western border. TheGreat Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most visited national park, is in eastern Tennessee.
Tennessee is rooted in theWatauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of theAppalachian Mountains. Its name derives fromTanasi (ᏔᎾᏏ), aCherokee town preceding the first European American settlement. Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later theSouthwest Territory, before its admission to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. It earned the nickname "The Volunteer State" due to a strong tradition of military service. Aslave state until theAmerican Civil War, Tennessee was politically divided, with most of its western and middle parts supporting theConfederacy, and most of the eastern region harboringpro-Union sentiment. As a result, Tennessee was the last state to officiallysecede from the Union and join theConfederacy, and the first formerConfederate state readmitted to the Union after the war had ended during theReconstruction era. (Full article...)
Anne Dallas Dudley (bornAnnie Willis Dallas; November 13, 1876 – September 13, 1955) was an American activist in thewomen's suffrage movement. She was a national and state leader in the fight for women's suffrage who worked to secure the ratification of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee.
After founding the Nashville Equal Suffrage League and serving as its president, Dudley moved up through the ranks of the movement, serving as President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and then as Vice President of theNational American Woman Suffrage Association, where she helped lead efforts to get theNineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, giving women theright to vote nationwide. She is especially noted for her successful efforts to get the Nineteenth Amendment ratified in her home state ofTennessee, the final state necessary to bring the amendment into force. (Full article...)
The Smokies are part of anInternational Biosphere Reserve. The range is home to an estimated 187,000 acres (76,000 ha) ofold-growth forest, constituting the largest such stand east of theMississippi River. Thecoves hardwood forests in the range's lower elevations are among the most diverse ecosystems in North America, and theSouthern Appalachian spruce–fir forest that covers the upper elevations is the largest of its kind. The Smokies are home to the densestblack bear population in the Eastern United States and the most diversesalamander population outside of the tropics. (Full article...)
... thatGerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica ofthe Hermitage after watchingThe President's Lady?
... thatWilliam Jenkins Wilcox Jr. was given a Citizen Archivist award at a symposium titled "Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power"?
... thatDutch Maid Bakery in Tennessee has survived fire, war, the Great Depression, and the rebranding of its fruitcake?
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