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Fort Lauderdale, Fla., got both its start and name from Maj. William Lauderdale of Sumner County, who in 1838 led his Tennessee volunteers into the area during the Seminole War.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

Harrogate’s (pop. 2,000) Abraham Lincoln Museum houses one of the country’s most complete Lincoln and Civil War collections, including rare items such as the silver-topped cane Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

On a 1907 visit to Nashville, President Theodore Roosevelt used the phrase “Good to the Last Drop” to describe a cup of house blend coffee from the Maxwell House Hotel.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

The National Medal of Honor Museum in Chattanooga is a memorial to Americans awarded the country’s highest medal for military valor.

first appeared: 9/23/2001

Built in 1882, the 134-foot Doe River Covered Bridge in Carter County is believed to be the oldest in the state still in use.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

Built in 1823, Williamson County’s Hiram Masonic Hall was the state’s first Masonic Lodge and its first three-story building.

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Located in Sweetwater (pop. 5,586) is Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the first accredited secondary school for Japanese students living in the United States, established in 1989.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

Kingston (pop. 5,264), in Roane County, served as the state capital for one day when, on Sept. 21, 1807, the General Assembly met there before adjourning on the same day and re-assembling two days later in Knoxville. Nashville has been the state capital since 1843.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who penned the phrase “The One Great Scorer . . . writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game,” was born in Murfreesboro in 1880.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

Located in Morristown (pop. 24,965), the Crockett Tavern is the reconstructed boyhood home of Davy Crockett—American frontiersman, politician, and hero. It was built by John Crockett in 1796.

first appeared: 8/12/2001

The 1866 Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg (pop. 4,721) is the oldest registered distillery in the United States.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

The Charlotte Courthouse in Dickson County (pop. 43,156), built in 1833, is the oldest courthouse still in use in Tennessee.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

The Jubilee Singers of Nashville’s Fisk University preserved the tradition and beauty of “slave songs,” said to be the basis for other genres of African-American music. Their successful fund-raising tours in the United States and Europe during the 1870s helped build the school’s first permanent building, Jubilee Hall.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

The Great Smoky Mountains take their name from the smoke-like bluish haze that often envelops the famous range.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

Meharry Medical College in Nashville, established in 1876, had the first medical education program for African-Americans in the United States.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

1933 saw one of the state’s toughest elections. In the race to determine the state bird, the mockingbird beat the robin by a mere 450 votes.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

Visitors can boat across the Lost Sea, a four-and-a-half acre lake situated 300 feet underground near Sweetwater (pop. 5,302). It is said to be America’s largest underground lake.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

The geographic center of Tennessee is located one mile from downtown Murfreesboro. The site is marked by an obelisk.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

In August 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment, thus adding it to the U.S. Constitution. This act gave the nation’s 17 million women the right to vote.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

Samuel Doak, a Presbyterian minister and Princeton University graduate, was the state’s first teacher. Doak opened his home in Jonesborough (pop. 3,091) as a school in 1781.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

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