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Tennessee (/ˌtɛnɪˈsiː/ ^ⓘ TEN-iss-EE, locally /ˈtɛnɪsi/ TEN-iss-ee), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. Tennessee is geographically, culturally, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions of East, Middle, and West Tennessee. Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, and anchors its largest metropolitan area. Other major cities include Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Clarksville. Tennessee's population as of the 2020 United States census is approximately 6.9 million.

Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its name derives from Tanasi (ᏔᎾᏏ), a Cherokee town in the eastern part of the state that existed before the first European American settlement. Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later the Southwest Territory, before its admission to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. It earned the nickname "The Volunteer State" early in its history due to a strong tradition of military service. A slave state until the American Civil War, Tennessee was politically divided, with most of its western and middle parts supporting the Confederacy, and most of the eastern region harboring pro-Union sentiment. As a result, Tennessee was the last state to officially secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, and the first former Confederate state readmitted to the Union after the war had ended during the lengthy Reconstruction era.

During the 20th century, Tennessee transitioned from a predominantly agrarian society to a more diversified economy. This was aided in part by massive federal investment in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the city of Oak Ridge, which was established during World War II to house the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities for the construction of the world's first atomic bombs. After the war, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory became a key center of scientific research. In 2016, the element tennessine was named for the state, largely in recognition of the roles played by Oak Ridge, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee in its discovery. Tennessee has also played a major role in the development of many forms of popular music, including country, blues, rock and roll, soul, and gospel. (Full article...)

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The Nashville Seraphs, often known as the Nashvilles, were a minor league baseball team that played in the Class B Southern League in 1895. They were located in Nashville, Tennessee, and played their home games at Athletic Park, later known as Sulphur Dell. The club won the Southern League pennant in their only season, becoming the city's first minor league baseball team to win a league championship.

The Nashvilles spent the majority of the season at or near the top of the league standings and held an above-.500 winning percentage on all but Opening Day. From August 15 to the season finale on September 3, the Seraphs won 20 consecutive games, which propelled them from seven games out of first place to a tie with the Atlanta Crackers atop the standings. Both teams possessed .670 records and asserted to be the rightful pennant winners. At the league's annual winter meeting that December, nearly four months later, Nashville was declared the Southern League champion for 1895. (Full article...)

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates similarly to a private for-profit company. It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth-largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country.

The TVA was created by Congress in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Its initial purpose was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, regional planning, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region that had suffered from lack of infrastructure and even more extensive poverty during the Great Depression than other regions of the nation. TVA was envisioned both as a power supplier and a regional economic development agency that would work to help modernize the region's economy and society. It later evolved primarily into an electric utility. It was the first large regional planning agency of the U.S. federal government, and remains the largest. (Full article...)

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Image 1Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (from Tennessee)
Image 2Al Gore served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) and as Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) (from Tennessee)
Image 3Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Tennessee)
Image 4Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project (from Tennessee)
Image 5Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, is the busiest cargo airport in the world (from Tennessee)
Image 6Offices of The Tennessean in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 7The resort city of Gatlinburg borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most visited national park in the United States. (from Tennessee)
Image 8Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War (from Tennessee)
Image 91861 Bank of Tennessee 1 dollar banknote (from History of Tennessee)
Image 10The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 11Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 12Mississippian-period shell gorget, Castalian Springs, Sumner County (from History of Tennessee)
Image 13The Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1872, by Harry Fenn (from History of Tennessee)
Image 14The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson, now a museum in Davidson County (from History of Tennessee)
Image 15Tennessee Volunteers football (from Tennessee)
Image 16Offices of The Tennessean in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 17Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation (from Tennessee)
Image 18Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female) (from Tennessee)
Image 19Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit (from Tennessee)
Image 20Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system (from Tennessee)
Image 21Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation (from Tennessee)
Image 22Cedar glades are an ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface (from Tennessee)
Image 23A View of Memphis, Tennessee, 1871 (from History of Tennessee)
Image 24The Southwest Territory in 1790 (from Tennessee)
Image 25Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee (from Tennessee)
Image 26Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (from Tennessee)
Image 27The resort city of Gatlinburg borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most visited national park in the United States. (from Tennessee)
Image 28in 1946 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tennessee statehood. (from Tennessee)
Image 29Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit (from Tennessee)
Image 30in 1946 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tennessee statehood. (from Tennessee)
Image 31Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 32Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project (from Tennessee)
Image 33Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796) (from Tennessee)
Image 34Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female) (from Tennessee)
Image 35Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War (from Tennessee)
Image 36Tennessee Volunteers football (from Tennessee)
Image 37The Grand Ole Opry, which was recorded in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium from 1943 to 1974, is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history. (from Tennessee)
Image 38The Ocoee River was home to the 1996 Summer Olympics whitewater slalom events, the only Olympic sporting event ever held in the state. (from Tennessee)
Image 39A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America (from Tennessee)
Image 40Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee (from Tennessee)
Image 41Al Gore served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) and as Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) (from Tennessee)
Image 42Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, is the busiest cargo airport in the world (from Tennessee)
Image 43The Ryman Auditorium, home of the "Grand Ole Opry" in Nashville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 44The Grand Ole Opry, which was recorded in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium from 1943 to 1974, is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history. (from Tennessee)
Image 45Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796) (from Tennessee)
Image 46Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933 (from Tennessee)
Image 47Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country (from Tennessee)
Image 48Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (from Tennessee)
Image 49The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 50Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Tennessee)
Image 51The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from Tennessee)
Image 52The Ocoee River was home to the 1996 Summer Olympics whitewater slalom events, the only Olympic sporting event ever held in the state. (from Tennessee)
Image 53A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America (from Tennessee)
Image 54Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities. (from Tennessee)
Image 55Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933 (from Tennessee)
Image 56The Southwest Territory in 1790 (from Tennessee)
Image 57The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (from Tennessee)
Image 58A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income. (from Tennessee)
Image 59John Bell (from History of Tennessee)
Image 60The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (from Tennessee)
Image 61Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country (from Tennessee)
Image 62The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from Tennessee)

Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Image 64Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator" (from Tennessee)
Image 65Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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Image 66Third Battle of Chattanooga, November 23–25, 1863 (from History of Tennessee)
Image 67Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities. (from Tennessee)
Image 68Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator" (from Tennessee)
Image 69The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 70Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system (from Tennessee)
Image 71Nashville's replica of the Parthenon (built 1897) (from History of Tennessee)
Image 72Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (from Tennessee)
Image 73Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau (from Tennessee)
Image 74Cedar glades are an ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface (from Tennessee)
Image 75A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income. (from Tennessee)
Image 76The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 77Alvin C. York (from History of Tennessee)
Image 78Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee (from History of Tennessee)
Image 79Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau (from Tennessee)

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... that the 75/24 Split in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been one of the worst bottlenecks for trucks in the United States?
... that one of Beverly Robertson's biggest accomplishments as CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber was attracting the Ford Motor Company's US$5.6 billion Blue Oval City complex to Memphis, Tennessee?
... that a section of Interstate 65 in Tennessee was the first part of the Interstate Highway System to open in the state?
... that Mary Shadow, the first unmarried woman in the Tennessee House of Representatives, received fourteen marriage proposals after her election?
... that WLOK, the first Black-owned radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, organizes an annual "Stone Soul Picnic" gospel concert series?
... that the Pellissippi Parkway in East Tennessee takes its name from a Native American name that was applied to both the Clinch and Ohio Rivers?

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