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5 days ago · Tennessee is a constituent state of the U.S. It became the 16th state of the union in 1796 and borders North Carolina to the east; Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south; Arkansas and Missouri to the west; and Kentucky and Virginia to the north. Its capital city is Nashville.
Tennessee, State, southeast-central U.S. Area: 42,144 sq mi (109,153 sq km). Population: (2020) 6,910,840; (2023 est.) 7,126,489. Capital: Nashville. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north; North Carolina to the east; Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south; and Arkansas and Missouri to the west.
4 days ago · Nashville, Tennessee Covered cannon on the steps of the capitol, Nashville, Tennessee, photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. Chartered as a city in 1806, Nashville developed as a river trade depot and manufacturing site for middle Tennessee and became the political centre of the state.
6 days ago · Memphis is Tennessee’s most populous city and is at the center of the state’s second largest metropolitan area. Aside from West Memphis, Arkansas, Memphis’s main suburbs include Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, and Millington in Tennessee and Horn Lake, Olive Branch, and Southaven in Mississippi.
4 days ago · Tennessee - Politics, Economy, Society: Tennessee’s first constitution was enacted in 1796, and new constitutions were adopted in 1835 and 1870. The 1870 constitution was revised several times in the 20th century. Tennessee’s government—like that of the federal government—consists of executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Tennessee River, central component of one of the world’s greatest irrigation and hydropower systems and a major waterway of the southeastern United States. It is formed by the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers, just east of Knoxville, Tennessee, and flows south-southwest to.
Nashville, City (pop., 2020: 689,447), capital of Tennessee, U.S. It is located on the Cumberland River. Founded in 1779 as Nashborough, it was incorporated as the town of Nashville in 1784. It became a city in 1806 and the state capital in 1843.
Oct 4, 2024 · Tennessee - Civil War, Appalachia, Music: The earliest inhabitants of Tennessee are believed to have been Ice Age peoples descended from Asians who crossed the former Bering Strait land bridge more than 20,000 years ago.
Chattanooga, city, seat (1819) of Hamilton county, southeastern Tennessee, U.S. The city lies along the Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River, near the Georgia border, about 115 miles (185 km) north of Atlanta.
5 days ago · Tennessee - Civil War, Reconstruction, Union: With growing tension between the states of the North and those of the South over the issue of slavery, many Southern states considered the 1860 election of emancipation advocate Abraham Lincoln as president to be their signal to secede from the United States; initially, though, the ...
