Moving Companies in Tennessee (TN)

TENNESSEE

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Tennessee.

Capital City: Nashville
Nicknames: The Volunteer State    

Population over 5.8 million residents

State’s Flag: Tile state flag, adopted in 1905, shows three stars, which stand for East, Middle, and West Tennessee.

Long and lanky as a split-rail fence, Tennessee is nestled between the misty Appalachian hollows to the east, where the wolves once again roam, and the Mississippi River to the west, where paddle wheelers still churn the muddy water and the poignant sound of Memphis blues drifts out of smoky Beale Street clubs.

Tennessee was Indian land first; the name comes from the old Yuchi word tana-see, which means “the meeting place”. The first Europeans to lay eyes on the state were Spaniards under the command of the conquistador Hernando de Soto; the group searched fruitlessly here for gold in 1540. It wasn’t until 1769, when William Bean of Virginia built a cabin on the banks of the Watauga River, that there were any permanent settlers. Other pioneers soon followed, traveling down the valleys of the northeast or along the broad Cumberland River from Kentucky. Although Tennessee was originally part of North Carolina, residents in the eastern section split off in 1784 to create the state of Franklin; the political entity lasted just four years before being reabsorbed into North Carolina. Finally, in 1796, Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16^th state.

The eastern mountains were the heartland of the Cherokee nation. By the early 19^th century, the Cherokee lived in farming communities and were governed by their own written legal code; most Cherokee were literate, and the tribe even published a newspaper, written in the newly invented Cherokee alphabet. The discovery of gold in Cherokee land to the south spurred President Andrew Jackson (himself a Tennessee native) to evict the tribe in 1838-39, forcing them into Oklahoma. The bitter march west, during which more than 4,000 Cherokee died, would later be known as the Trail of Tears.  

In 1933 Congress authorizes Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1942 Manhattan Project, to create an atomic bomb, is established at Oak Ridge. In 1964 Tennessee Space Institute is founded at Tullahoma. In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis. In 1985 Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway connects Tennessee River to Gulf of Mexico. In 2002 the National Civil Rights Museum, opened in Memphis in 1991, unveils a new $11 million addition across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.

Service industries: Restaurants, business services.

Manufacturing: Heating and refrigeration equipment automobile parts.

Agriculture: Beef, cattle, milk, cotton.

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