Portal:Tennessee/Did you know/2

...that Great Falls Dam on the Caney Fork River in Middle Tennessee was built in 1916 by the Tennessee Electric Power Company for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation and was sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1939?
...that McGhee Tyson Airport, which serves Knoxville, is named for Navy pilot McGhee Tyson, who was lost on patrol in World War I?
...that Reelfoot Lake was formed in 1812 as a result of the New Madrid earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the contiguous United States?