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Completed in 1936, Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric project. The 4,038-acre Norris Dam State Park, along the shores of Norris Lake at Lake City (pop. 1,888), is home to the Lenoir Pioneer Museum.

first appeared: 12/19/2004

Built in 1887 by the Tennessee Red Cedar Woodenworks Co., the world’s largest red cedar bucket—6 feet tall and 800 pounds—sits in Cannonsburgh Village in Murfreesboro (pop. 68,816).

first appeared: 12/5/2004

In 1950, Aladdin Industries of Nashville gussied up its plain steel lunch boxes and thermos bottles with Hopalong Cassidy decals. Sales jumped from 50,000 to 600,000 lunch kits the first year.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

Rudy’s Farm Sausage Co., founded in 1944, uses a recipe developed by Frank and Dan Rudy’s grandfather.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

The City of Brentwood (pop. 23,445) plans to use the newly restored 1830s Boiling Springs Academy to teach children about 19th-century schools and education.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson, contains nearly all-original furnishings. Jackson bought the farm near Nashville in 1804 and in 1819 built a two-story brick Federal mansion, which was remodeled and enlarged after an 1834 fire to its present Greek Revival style.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

Wilson Sporting Goods manufactures all of its golf balls in Humboldt (pop. 9,467).

first appeared: 10/3/2004

The Jack Daniel’s Distillery, established in 1866, is located in Moore County (pop. 5,740), which has been “dry” since Prohibition.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

The first microphone used by Elvis Presley is just one attraction at Sun Studio in Memphis.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

The cabin of frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett has been reconstructed on the Rutherford (pop. 1,272) farm where he lived from the 1820s until 1836.

first appeared: 9/5/2004

The bobwhite quail was adopted as the state game bird in 1988.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

In the 1830s, the state, a major pork and corn producer, was nicknamed the “Hog and Hominy State.”

first appeared: 8/22/2004

Completed in 1910, the Tennessee blue limestone Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis can be admired in films such as Silence of the Lambs, The Firm and The Client.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

A 1910 horse-drawn steam engine used by firefighters is a hot attraction at the Fire Museum of Memphis, housed in Fire Engine House No. 1.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

In 1784, settlers in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina felt under-represented by state government and declared their independence by forming the state of Franklin. Congress never recognized Franklin, but Jonesborough (pop. 4,168) served as the first capital. Franklin lasted four years.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

This Paris (pop. 9,763) also boasts an Eiffel Tower, a 60-foot-tall replica of the monument in France.

first appeared: 7/25/2004

Guests can snooze aboard Victorian train cars at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn. On the grounds is one of the world’s largest working model railroads.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

Lawrenceburg (pop. 10,796) is the official “Birthplace of Southern Gospel Music,” where James D. Vaughan operated a complete gospel music industry. He opened Vaughan School of Music in 1911 and established WOAN Radio in 1922, the first gospel radio station.

first appeared: 7/11/2004

Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border is blanketed with 1,400 species of native flowering plants and is believed to have more wildflower varieties than any national park.

first appeared: 6/27/2004

The home of Sheriff Buford Pusser, whose dogged crime fighting became the subject of the 1970s Walking Tall movie series, is a museum in Adamsville (pop. 1,983).

first appeared: 6/20/2004

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