History of Tennessee, USA

Journey back in time to Tennessee, USA

• 1768 - Iroquois Indians ceded Tennessee land claims to English
  
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• 1779 - Jonesboro became first chartered town, oldest permanent settlement in state
  
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• 1784 - "State of Franklin" proclaimed in Tennessee
  
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• 1796 - Tennesse became 16th U.S. state
  
  
  
• 1812 - Eathquake occurred; tidal waves created on Mississippi River, river flowed backward, formed Reelfort Lake area
  
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• 1838 - Army evicted Cherokee, sent them to Indian territory on "Trail of Tears"
  Tennessee first state to pass temperance law
  
  
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• 1861 - Tennessee secedes from Union (May 7); Civil War began
  
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• 1866 - Tennessee first state readmitted to Union; third state to ratify Fourteenth Amendment to constitution
  
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  Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic
  Made in Paris, Tennessee
  
  Edwin Wiley Grove (1850–1927) was a self-made millionaire most famous for his "Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic." In this chill tonic, which came out 1878, Grove found a way to bottle a quinine ... Read MORE...
  
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  St. Andrews Wine of Life Root, Female Regulator for Women
  Made in Bristol, TN
  
  Found at Old Drugstore, St Augustine, Florida
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•  1888 - A Cincinnati Southern train was wrecked on the 31st ult. in the Tennessee mountains and three persons were killed.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  November 3, 1888
  
  
• 1895 - Tennessee
  Ten'nessee', a S.E. central state of the American Union, bounded N. by Kentucky and Virginia, E. by North Carolina, S. by Georgia, Alabama, and Missis...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1897 - Tennessee Centennial Exposition held in Nashville to celebrate state's 100th birthday
  
  
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• 1900 - Locomotive engineer, Casey Jones, died in train crash
  
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  Station Mid-Way on Incline, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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  Gay Street North from Clinch Street, Knoxville, Tenn.
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• 1919 - First Women’s Bank of Tennessee (Clarksville) opens to cater to women customers only.
  While the bank employees and directors were women, its shareholders were male.
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  Water Front, Memphis, Tenn.
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•  1925 - July 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
  
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  July 21, 1925
  
  
•  1925 - May 5 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
  
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  May 5, 1925
  
  
• 1939 - "Grand Ole Opry" began radio broadcasts
  
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• 1940 - Great Smoky Mountain National Park dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt
  
  
  
•  February 1, 1951 - The greatest ice storm of record in the U.S.
  produced glaze up to four inches thick from Texas to Pennsylvania causing twenty-five deaths, 500 serious injuries, and 100 million dollars damage. Te...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1952 - March 21 - Severe thunderstorms spawned thirty-one tornadoes across Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky.
  The tornadoes killed 343 persons and caused 15 million dollars damage. Arkansas and Tennessee each reported thirteen tornadoes. The towns of Judsonia ...Read MORE...