Portal:Tennessee/Did you know
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- ...that the city of Harriman was developed as a planned community with no alcoholic beverages permitted?
- ...that travelers entering Paris, Tennessee, from the south on U.S. Highway 79 can see a welcome sign that features a 20-foot-long model of a catfish?
- ...that the Music City Star is a commuter rail line between Nashville and Lebanon, Tennessee that uses three rebuilt Amtrak locomotives and seven passenger coaches from Chicago?
- ...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?
- ...that the Ocoee River was the site of the whitewater slalom events during the 1996 Summer Olympics?
- ...that the name of The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville's daily newspaper) refers to the leaf of tobacco, the area's main agricultural crop?
- ...that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Tennessee and Kentucky replaced a stretch of U.S. Route 25E that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there?
- ...that the University of Tennessee at Martin is the only public four-year university in West Tennessee outside Memphis?
- ...that Trousdale County is the state's smallest county in area, with a total area of 302 km² (117 sq mi)?
- ...that the Gray Fossil Site, which was discovered in May 2000 during a highway project, has yielded the most complete fossil skeleton of Teleoceras (an ancient rhinoceros) found in eastern North America and the tooth of a new fossil species of red panda?
- ...that Nutbush, Tennessee is the childhood home of singer Tina Turner and that a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 is named Tina Turner Highway?
- ...that the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is located in the former Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968?
- ...that the three stars in the Flag of Tennessee represent the three main geographical divisions of the state, East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee and West Tennessee?
- ...that the first Holiday Inn hotel was built in Memphis, Tennessee in 1952?
- ...that on several occasions, equipment from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga has been used in movies?
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