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Chet Atkins, born in Lutrell (pop. 915) in 1924, won nine Country Music Association Awards as Musician of the Year and 13 Grammys, more than any other artist in the history of country music. He died in 2001.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

Clarksville native and track star Wilma Rudolph overcame scarlet fever, whooping cough, and polio to become, in 1960, the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

Howell Campbell, founder of Nashville’s Standard Candy Co., was the first to make a candy bar other than one of solid chocolate. His Goo Goo Cluster, invented in 1912, has chocolate, peanuts, caramel, and marshmallow.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

Writer James Agee was born in Knoxville in 1909. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel A Death in the Family and wrote the screenplay for the film The African Queen.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

Chucalissa is a prehistoric American Indian village near Memphis which archeologists say was occupied from around A.D. 1400 to the early 1500s. Chucalissa is now managed as an archeological park.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

Anna Mae Bullock was born in Brownsville (pop. 10,748) in 1939. She’s better known as soul and pop vocalist Tina Turner.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

Steamboat captain Tom Ryman built the Union Gospel Tabernacle—better known as Ryman Auditorium—in Nashville in 1889. Home of the Grand Ole Opry radio show until 1974, it currently features live entertainment.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

American explorer Meriwether Lewis is buried in Lewis County (pop. 9,247), which was named for him.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

Roan Mountain State Park, a 6,285-foot ridge straddling the North Carolina and Tennessee state line, has what is thought to be the world’s largest natural rhododendron gardens.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Cordell Hull, U.S. representative and statesman, was born Oct. 2, 1871, near Byrdstown (pop. 903). He served as secretary of state under Franklin Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

The Museum of Appalachia in Norris (pop. 1,446), open since 1960, celebrates the culture and heritage of Southern Appalachian pioneer, mountain, and rural life.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

In the mid-1800s, John Clemens, father of Mark Twain, was one of the largest landowners in Fentress County, holding 75,000 acres. He later moved his family to Missouri, where Twain was born.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

Pinson Mounds in Madison County contains several American Indian mounds, forming the nation’s largest mound group from the Middle Woodland period (200-300 B.C. to A.D. 700-900). The mounds are thought to have been built for ceremonial and burial purposes.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

Friendsville (pop. 890) in East Tennessee was established in 1796 by the Society of Friends, better known as Quakers.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

Volney is the lion seen roaring at the beginning of MGM movies. He lived at the Memphis Zoo until his death in 1944.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Brothers Robert Love Taylor and Alfred A. Taylor of Carter County opposed each other for governor in 1886. Robert won and served three terms. Alfred later served one term.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Elected in 1841 at age 32, James Chamberlain Jones was the first native-born Tennessean to be elected governor of the state and the youngest man to hold the office.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

Red Clay State Historic Park, south of Cleveland (pop. 37,192), is the site of the Cherokee Indians’ eternal flame. Red Clay served as the Cherokee nation’s last council grounds in the 1830s, before the Trail of Tears took them west.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

The Sewanee Review, published by the University of the South in Sewanee (pop. 2,361), is America’s oldest continuously published literary quarterly, founded in 1892.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

Frances Rose Shore, born in Winchester (pop. 7,329) in 1917, was raised in Nashville, where she launched her career at the age of 14. She later changed her name to Dinah, the famous television personality and singer.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

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