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Walter Beech, co-founder of Beech Aircraft Co. in 1932 in Wichita, Kan., was born in 1891 in Pulaski (pop. 7,871).

first appeared: 9/14/2003

Druggist Edwin Grove concocted Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic in 1878 and used his wealth to build the state’s first privately endowed public high school in Paris (pop. 9,763), referred to as “the school that came out of a bottle.”

first appeared: 9/7/2003

Jerry Hall of Bluff City (pop. 1,559) set a world record for the longest open-water scuba dive when he stayed under South Holston Lake in Bristol (pop. 24,821) for 71 hours, 39 minutes, and 40 seconds in August 2002.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

Chris Moneymaker, an accountant in Spring Hill (pop. 7,715), lived up to his name and won $2.5 million as champion of the 34th annual World Series of Poker held last May in Las Vegas.

first appeared: 8/24/2003

Three thousand prohibitionists bought lots from the East Tennessee Land Co. in 1890 and established Harriman (pop. 6,744) as “A Utopia of Temperance and Industry.”

first appeared: 8/17/2003

Civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, born in 1863 in Memphis, became the first president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

Founded in 1879, Hatch Show Print in Nashville is one of the nation’s oldest working letterpress printing shops. Fourteen antique printing presses turn out posters mainly for the country music industry.

first appeared: 8/3/2003

At 6,643 feet, Clingman’s Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg (pop. 3,382) is the state’s highest peak.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

In 1923, Bessie Smith’s first record, Down-Hearted Blues, sold 2 million copies. The “Empress of the Blues” was born in Chattanooga, the year unknown.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

Since 1958, Hartmann luggage has been manufactured in Lebanon (pop. 20.235), but the company originated in 1877 in Wisconsin.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

A deep breath please before singing the state song because there are six of them: My Homeland, Tennessee, When It’s Iris Time in Tennessee, Tennessee Waltz, Rocky Top, Tennessee, and The Pride of Tennessee.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Chet Atkins, one of the creators of the pop and country music style called “Nashville Sound” in the 1950s and 1960s, was born in 1924 in Luttrell (pop. 915).

first appeared: 6/29/2003

Catherine Masters, a Nashville entrepreneur, founded the National Women’s Football Association, the world’s largest league for full-contact women’s football. From two teams the first season in 2002, the Nashville Dreams and the Alabama Renegades, the league has grown to 30 teams. About 5,300 fans attended the 2002 SupHer Bowl.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

Pioneer Mears Warner named the town of Dresden (pop. 2,855), incorporated in 1827, to honor his father’s birthplace of Dresden, Germany.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

In 1990, Bill Carson of Arrington near Franklin (pop. 41,842) grew a 262-pound watermelon, the world’s largest.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

A recipe for Chicken Florentine Panini sandwiches won a yummy $1 million for Denise Yennie, a Nashville accountant, at the 2002 Pillsbury Bake-off Contest.

first appeared: 6/1/2003

Teresa Phillips, athletic director at Tennessee State University in Nashville, became the first woman to coach a men’s Division 1 basketball game on Feb. 13, filling in for a suspended coach. The Tigers lost to Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

Built in 1793 with dovetailed chestnut logs, the Rees-Hawley house in Jonesborough (pop. 4,168) is the town’s oldest structure.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

“King of Country Music,” Roy Acuff was born in 1903 in Maynardville (pop. 1,782) and first performed in 1938 on Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry radio program. Acuff transformed the Opry from regional entertainment into a national institution.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

“Martha White” isn’t a fictitious advertising symbol, but was the daughter of Richard Lindsey, who founded Royal Flour Mill in Nashville in 1899. He named his finest flour after his little girl.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

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