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Tennessee (/ˌtɛnɪˈsiː/ ^ⓘ, locally /ˈtɛnɪsi/), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. According to the United States Census Bureau, the state's estimated population as of 2024 is 7.22 million.

Tennessee is geographically, culturally, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions of East, Middle, and West Tennessee. Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, and anchors its largest metropolitan area. Tennessee has diverse terrain and landforms, and from east to west, contains a mix of cultural features characteristic of Appalachia, the Upland South, and the Deep South. The Blue Ridge Mountains along the eastern border reach some of the highest elevations in eastern North America, and the Cumberland Plateau contains many scenic valleys and waterfalls. The central part of the state is marked by cavernous bedrock and irregular rolling hills, and level, fertile plains define West Tennessee. The state is twice bisected by the Tennessee River, and the Mississippi River forms its western border. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most visited national park, is in eastern Tennessee.

Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its name derives from Tanasi (ᏔᎾᏏ), a Cherokee town preceding the first European American settlement. Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later the Southwest Territory, before its admission to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. It earned the nickname "The Volunteer State" due to a strong tradition of military service. A slave state until the American Civil War, Tennessee was politically divided, with most of its western and middle parts supporting the Confederacy, and most of the eastern region harboring pro-Union sentiment. As a result, Tennessee was the last state to officially secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, and the first former Confederate state readmitted to the Union after the war had ended during the Reconstruction era. (Full article...)

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Billie Nipper (November 22, 1929 – February 24, 2016) was an American artist who specialized in painting portraits of horses. Nipper, a native of Cleveland, Tennessee, painted every horse that won the Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship from 1976 until her death. Besides Tennessee Walking Horses, she painted other breeds of horse, as well as landscapes. Her paintings were made into prints and transferred onto china and other objects. Nipper also bred horses, and her husband and son were horse trainers.

Nipper's art was owned by Ronald Reagan and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Her paintings are in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, and the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in Amarillo, Texas. Nipper herself was inducted into the Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Agriculture Hall of Fame. She died in February 2016. (Full article...)

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Tennessee Whiskey is straight whiskey produced in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Although it has been legally defined as a bourbon whiskey in some international trade agreements, most current producers of Tennessee Whiskey disclaim references to their products as "bourbon" and do not label them as such on any of their bottles or advertising materials. All current Tennessee whiskey producers are required by Tennessee law to produce their whiskeys in Tennessee and – with the sole exception of Benjamin Prichard's – to use a filtering step known as the Lincoln County Process prior to aging the whiskey. Beyond the perceived marketing value of the distinction, Tennessee Whiskey and bourbon have almost identical requirements, and most Tennessee Whiskeys meet the criteria for bourbon. It is interesting to note that in the early 1820s and into the 1890s, there was significantly more whiskey being produced in America in the northeast than in Tennessee and Kentucky, yet, the adoption of using charred oak barrels for aging began being recognized simultaneously in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1820s, with Tennesseans in Lincoln County adding the maple charcoal filtering as an extra step. Was it coincidence or a common experience that compelled these isolated frontiersmen to embrace charred wood for their whiskey? It is worthy to consider that New Orleans was the main point of commerce at that time for both Tennessee and Kentucky and that the use of charred oak barrels for American whiskey is attributed to the Tarascon brothers adoption of the method for their shop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans due to the embargo of cognac throughout the War of 1812. Not only were tradesmen traveling down river to New Orleans and back, but in 1814 men of Kentucky and Tennessee gathered (2500 in Lincoln County) to march into the Battle of New Orleans.Lincoln County Process

Tennessee Whiskey is one of the top ten exports of Tennessee. According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, as of 2013, the U.S. market for bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey reached $2.4 billion, and exports of bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey grew to exceed $1 billion. There are two major producers of Tennessee Whiskey, Jack Daniel's based in Lynchburg (owned by the Louisville-based Brown–Forman) and George Dickel based in Cascade Hollow near Tullahoma (owned by the London-based Diageo), as well as numerous locally based producers throughout the state. In June 2017, the Tennessee Distillers Guild launched the Tennessee Whiskey Trail, a 25-stop distillery tour across the state, to further promote Tennessee Whiskey and local whiskey culture. (Full article...)

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Image 1A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America (from Tennessee)
Image 2Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system (from Tennessee)
Image 3The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson, now a museum in Davidson County (from History of Tennessee)
Image 4in 1946 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tennessee statehood. (from Tennessee)
Image 5Al Gore served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) and as Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) (from Tennessee)
Image 6The Ryman Auditorium, home of the "Grand Ole Opry" in Nashville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 7Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (from Tennessee)
Image 8Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (from Tennessee)

Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Image 10Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation (from Tennessee)
Image 11The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 12Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator" (from Tennessee)
Image 13Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War (from Tennessee)
Image 14Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project (from Tennessee)
Image 15The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from Tennessee)
Image 16Tennessee Volunteers football (from Tennessee)
Image 17Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau (from Tennessee)
Image 18The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from Tennessee)
Image 19Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country (from Tennessee)
Image 20Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit (from Tennessee)
Image 21The Grand Ole Opry, which was recorded in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium from 1943 to 1974, is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history. (from Tennessee)
Image 22Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Tennessee)
Image 23Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796) (from Tennessee)
Image 24A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income. (from Tennessee)
Image 25Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities. (from Tennessee)
Image 26The Ocoee River was home to the 1996 Summer Olympics whitewater slalom events, the only Olympic sporting event ever held in the state. (from Tennessee)
Image 27The resort city of Gatlinburg borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most visited national park in the United States. (from Tennessee)
Image 28Mississippian-period shell gorget, Castalian Springs, Sumner County (from History of Tennessee)
Image 29Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933 (from Tennessee)
Image 30Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796) (from Tennessee)
Image 31The Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1872, by Harry Fenn (from History of Tennessee)
Image 32The Southwest Territory in 1790 (from Tennessee)
Image 33The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 34Al Gore served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) and as Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) (from Tennessee)
Image 35Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, is the busiest cargo airport in the world (from Tennessee)
Image 36Offices of The Tennessean in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 37The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (from Tennessee)
Image 381861 Bank of Tennessee 1 dollar banknote (from History of Tennessee)
Image 39Tennessee Volunteers football (from Tennessee)
Image 40Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, is the busiest cargo airport in the world (from Tennessee)
Image 41The Southwest Territory in 1790 (from Tennessee)
Image 42John Bell (from History of Tennessee)
Image 43Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female) (from Tennessee)
Image 44A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income. (from Tennessee)
Image 45Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 46Cedar glades are an ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface (from Tennessee)
Image 47Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933 (from Tennessee)
Image 48Offices of The Tennessean in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 49Cedar glades are an ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface (from Tennessee)
Image 50Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee (from Tennessee)
Image 51The Grand Ole Opry, which was recorded in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium from 1943 to 1974, is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history. (from Tennessee)
Image 52The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (from Tennessee)
Image 53Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator" (from Tennessee)
Image 54The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 55Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (from Tennessee)
Image 56Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    50–60%
(from Tennessee)
Image 57Alvin C. York (from History of Tennessee)
Image 58A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America (from Tennessee)
Image 59Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee (from Tennessee)
Image 60Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 61Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit (from Tennessee)
Image 62A View of Memphis, Tennessee, 1871 (from History of Tennessee)
Image 63The Ocoee River was home to the 1996 Summer Olympics whitewater slalom events, the only Olympic sporting event ever held in the state. (from Tennessee)
Image 64Third Battle of Chattanooga, November 23–25, 1863 (from History of Tennessee)
Image 65Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities. (from Tennessee)
Image 66Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (from Tennessee)
Image 67Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female) (from Tennessee)
Image 68Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee (from History of Tennessee)
Image 69Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation (from Tennessee)
Image 70Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Tennessee)
Image 71The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 72Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War (from Tennessee)
Image 73in 1946 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tennessee statehood. (from Tennessee)
Image 74Nashville's replica of the Parthenon (built 1897) (from History of Tennessee)
Image 75Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system (from Tennessee)
Image 76Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country (from Tennessee)
Image 77The resort city of Gatlinburg borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most visited national park in the United States. (from Tennessee)
Image 78Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau (from Tennessee)
Image 79Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project (from Tennessee)

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... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
... that college basketball player Jett Howard almost signed at Tennessee, but instead chose the Michigan team of his father Juwan Howard?
... that Mister Rogers said that Mr. Chuck, the host of a children's show on the public TV station in Memphis, Tennessee, was "truly remarkable" and "achieving things I still struggle to achieve"?
... that Walter White was a member of the prosecution for the Scopes trial in 1925 despite not passing the bar until 1944?
... that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers?
... that Tennessee State Route 396 was constructed to provide access to the Spring Hill Manufacturing plant of Saturn Corporation?

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