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Jan 30, 2020 · This enriched landscape is filled with a vast amount of history dating to the earliest of explorers and the American Indians to the statehood of 1796 and further into the Civil War and present day. Over the next several months, Piedmont Trails will explore the early trails leading into Tennessee.
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Oct 8, 2017 · Daniel Boone is perhaps the best known of the early “long hunters” who ventured across the Appalachian Mountains to hunt and explore in the area of present-day Tennessee and Kentucky. Born on November 2, 1734, in Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, he was the sixth child of Squire and Sarah Boone.
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Oct 8, 2017 · The first explorations by Europeans in what is now Tennessee took place in 1540, when a Spanish expedition under the command of Hernando de Soto entered the region from the southeast.
Jun 15, 2020 · The scanty written information about the Indians of Tennessee comes from the chronicles of the sixteenth-century Spanish, seventeenth-century French, and eighteenth-century British expeditions.
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1540- Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto is the first white man known to come to the area. The dominant tribes are the Cherokee, Shawnee, and the Chickasaw.
1714- Charles Charleville sets up a French trading post at French Lick. 1715 - The last Shawnee had been driven out by Chickasaw and Cherokee attacks. 1730 - Sir Alexander Cuming, an emissary of King George II, confers the title of emperor on Chief Moytoy at Tellico. 1754 - The French and Indian War breaks out between British and French settlers. 1...
1800 - Congress establishes a post rout along the Natchez Trace, an old trail between Nashville and Natchez, Mississippi. 1807 - Kingston is the capital for one day, September 21st, while the state legislature discusses a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. 1809 - 35- year- old national hero Meriwether Lewis dies of gunshot wounds at Grinder's Stand,...
1900 - Casey Jones' train crashes on April 30th, killing him. 1909 - Liquor production is banned for the next year. 1914 - World War I begins. 1916 - After pulling a wealthy Chattanooga businessman's car out of a shallow creek bed, "horseless carriage"mechanic Ernest Holmes invents the tow truck. The first production model will sell for $680. 1918 ...
2001- Passenger attacked bus driver causing accident, six people killed 2002- 1. The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis opens its new $11 million addition that includes Bessie Brewer's boarding house across the street from the Loraine Motel where James Earl Ray used a hunting rifle to shoot Martin Luther King, Jr. 2. Former Nashville Mayor, Ph...
May 30, 2019 · The Cherokees had four major groups of towns, of which one – the Upper of Overhill (i.e. located across the mountains from the Caroline settlements) towns – were in Tennessee exclusively. These towns were primarily along the Little Tennessee, Tellico, and Hiwassee Rivers.
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Capital: Nashville. Biggest City: Memphis. Abbreviation: TN. State bird: mockingbird. State flower: iris. HISTORY. Talk about ancient history. Bones and artifacts over 14,000 years old—among...
