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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 most populous 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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Global Force Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion founded in 2014 by Jeff Jarrett, the co-founder and former President of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and his wife Karen Jarrett. It was owned and operated via its parent company Global Force Entertainment, LLC.

The promotion ran several live events and tapings for a potential television show. Jeff Jarrett returned to Impact Wrestling in an executive role in January 2017 and Karen Jarrett announced that GFW had "merged" with Impact on April 20, 2017. Impact Wrestling assumed the GFW name the following month, but it was dropped when Jeff Jarrett departed the company four months later. Jarrett resumed promoting events under the name in December 2017, but has not run any events since October 2018. (Full article...)

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Graceland is a mansion on a 13.8-acre (5.6-hectare) estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, which American singer Elvis Presley once owned. He is buried there, as are his parents Vernon and Gladys, paternal grandmother Minnie Mae, grandson Benjamin, and daughter Lisa Marie.

Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard (a segment of U.S. Route 51) in the Whitehaven neighborhood, about nine miles (14 kilometres) south of central Memphis and fewer than four miles (6.4 km) north of the Mississippi border. It was opened to the public as a house museum on June 7, 1982; as of 2024, it receives around 600,000 visitors annually, the second most visited home in the United States after the White House. (Full article...)

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Image 1The 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 2Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War (from Tennessee)
Image 3The Ryman Auditorium, home of the "Grand Ole Opry" in Nashville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 4A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income. (from Tennessee)
Image 5The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (from Tennessee)
Image 6A View of Memphis, Tennessee, 1871 (from History of Tennessee)
Image 7in 1946 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tennessee statehood. (from Tennessee)
Image 8The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville is one of the oldest working statehouses in the country, having been used continuously since 1853 (from Tennessee)
Image 9Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (from Tennessee)
Image 10Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation (from Tennessee)
Image 11Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system (from Tennessee)
Image 12Alvin C. York (from History of Tennessee)
Image 13Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female) (from Tennessee)
Image 14Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee (from Tennessee)
Image 15The Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1872, by Harry Fenn (from History of Tennessee)
Image 16The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville is one of the oldest working statehouses in the country, having been used continuously since 1853 (from Tennessee)
Image 17Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933 (from Tennessee)
Image 18Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator" (from Tennessee)
Image 19Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities. (from Tennessee)
Image 20Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796) (from Tennessee)
Image 21Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796) (from Tennessee)
Image 22President Donald Trump speaks with U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty after signing a Presidential Memorandum that will deploy the National Guard to Memphis. (from Tennessee)
Image 23Tennessee Volunteers football (from Tennessee)
Image 24Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee (from History of Tennessee)
Image 25President Donald Trump speaks with U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty after signing a Presidential Memorandum that will deploy the National Guard to Memphis. (from Tennessee)
Image 262024 U.S. presidential election results by county in Tennessee
Republican

Democratic
(from Tennessee)
Image 271861 Bank of Tennessee 1 dollar banknote (from History of Tennessee)
Image 28The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from Tennessee)
Image 29Offices of The Tennessean in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 30A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income. (from Tennessee)
Image 31The 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 32The Southwest Territory in 1790 (from Tennessee)
Image 33Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau (from Tennessee)
Image 34in 1946 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tennessee statehood. (from Tennessee)
Image 35Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation (from Tennessee)
Image 36Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933 (from Tennessee)
Image 37The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 38Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, often ranks as the busiest cargo airport in the world (from Tennessee)
Image 39Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country (from Tennessee)
Image 40Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project (from Tennessee)
Image 41Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit (from Tennessee)
Image 42Offices of The Tennessean in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 43The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville (from Tennessee)
Image 44Tennessee Volunteers football (from Tennessee)
Image 45Cedar glades are an ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface (from Tennessee)
Image 46Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (from Tennessee)
Image 47Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities. (from Tennessee)
Image 48The 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 49The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson, now a museum in Davidson County (from History of Tennessee)
Image 50Al Gore served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) and as Vice President (1993–2001) (from Tennessee)
Image 51Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau (from Tennessee)
Image 52A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America (from Tennessee)
Image 53Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee (from Tennessee)
Image 54Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit (from Tennessee)
Image 55Third Battle of Chattanooga, November 23–25, 1863 (from History of Tennessee)
Image 562024 U.S. presidential election results by county in Tennessee
Republican

Democratic
(from Tennessee)
Image 57Largest alone or in any combination ethnic origin by county in Tennessee, per the 2020 census (from Tennessee)
Image 58Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator" (from Tennessee)
Image 59The Southwest Territory in 1790 (from Tennessee)
Image 60Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. (from Tennessee)
Image 61Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's Draught of the Cherokee Country (from Tennessee)
Image 62Largest alone or in any combination ethnic origin by county in Tennessee, per the 2020 census (from Tennessee)
Image 63The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 64The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (from Tennessee)
Image 65Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female) (from Tennessee)
Image 66The 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 67Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project (from Tennessee)
Image 68Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, often ranks as the busiest cargo airport in the world (from Tennessee)
Image 69Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system (from Tennessee)
Image 70Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
Legend
- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    50–60%
(from Tennessee)
Image 71Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War (from Tennessee)
Image 72The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville (from Tennessee)
Image 73Mississippian-period shell gorget, Castalian Springs, Sumner County (from History of Tennessee)
Image 74Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Tennessee)
Image 75The 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 76The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville (from History of Tennessee)
Image 77John Bell (from History of Tennessee)
Image 78Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (from Tennessee)
Image 79Al Gore served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) and as Vice President (1993–2001) (from Tennessee)
Image 80Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
Legend
- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    50–60%
(from Tennessee)
Image 81A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America (from Tennessee)
Image 82Nashville's replica of the Parthenon (built 1897) (from History of Tennessee)
Image 83Cedar glades are an ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface (from Tennessee)
Image 84The 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 85Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Tennessee)

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... that Dutch Maid Bakery in Tennessee has survived fire, war, the Great Depression, and the rebranding of its fruitcake?
... that TV stations in Nashville and in Memphis, Tennessee, both on channel 30, lost their Fox affiliations in 1990?
... that a section of Interstate 65 in Tennessee was the first part of the Interstate Highway System to open in the state?
... that the construction of Tennessee State Route 155 in Nashville facilitated the development of an entertainment district anchored by the relocated Grand Ole Opry in the 1970s?
... that a library of religion and science in Tennessee never opened to the public?
... that William Jenkins Wilcox Jr. was given a Citizen Archivist award at a symposium titled "Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power"?

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