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unusual facts about Clinton, Tennessee



1981 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.

19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

20 Years After

Filmed principally in north Alabama and southern Tennessee, the low-budget film was initially released under the title Like Moles, Like Rats, a reference to the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth.

2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

25 Minutes to Go

German singer Gunter Gabriel on his Album The Tennessee-Recordings (2003).

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Beasley-Parham House

The Beasley-Parham House is located in the vicinity of Greenbrier, Tennessee, United States.

Brandt Hershman

He currently serves as the Majority Whip and represents Senate District 7, which includes parts of White, Tippecanoe, Jasper, Clinton, Carroll and Howard Counties.

Buhl Building

Wirt C. Rowland, architect of the Penobscot Building, Guardian Building, and the Buhl Building was born and raised in Clinton, Michigan.

Bulwark Protective Apparel

The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and owned by VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), the world’s largest apparel company.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Clint Everts

Clinton Charles Everts (born August 10, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Clint Frank

Clinton E. Frank died at the Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois after a brief illness.

Clinton County Courthouse

Clinton County Courthouse Complex, in Plattsburgh, New York, listed on the NRHP in Clinton County, New York

David Barnes

Dave Barnes (born 1978), singer-songwriter from Tennessee, U.S.A.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Don't Be Saprize

Don't Be Saprize featured production from the Road Dawgs themselves, Clinton "Payback" Sands, Greg Royal and Naughty by Nature producer Kay Gee, who produced the song "Break Yourself" with Darren Lighty.

Fort Loudoun

Fort Loudoun Lake, a man made lake on the Tennessee River, Tennessee, United States

Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders (Tennessee), the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863

Geoff Garin

He replaced Mark Penn as the Clinton Campaign's chief strategist in April 2008, after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Penn met with Colombian official regarding a proposed free trade agreement opposed by Clinton and most labor unions.

Hansjörg Göritz

2013 American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, University of Tennessee, for Rome research proposal 'Intra Murus', including studies on Louis I. Kahn's 1951 AAR residence

Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton

In 1937 and 1938 he organized visits to allow Fr Paul Couturier to meet active parishes in the Anglican Catholic tradition and visit a number of the then vigorous Anglican religious communities.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

KDKD

KDKD-FM, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to Clinton, Missouri, United States

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Louise Fagan

Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Mississippi River Trail

Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Morton Halperin

He served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks and universities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.

Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island

The Royal Air Force had recently started Training School #31 for this same purpose in Clinton, Ontario, and a small group of U.S. naval officers was sent there in mid-1941 to gather information for a similar school to be located on the campus of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Oklahoma World War II Army Airfields

Note: Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, originally Naval Air Station Clinton, was acquired by the U. S. Navy in 1942.

Opryland

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - formerly known as "Opryland Hotel", located in Nashville, Tennessee

Pickwick Lake

The lakeshore plays host to two state parks: Tennessee's Pickwick Landing State Park and Mississippi's J P Coleman State Park.

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

Slim Harpo

In 2012 a Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey commercial featured Harpo's song "I'm a King Bee" covered by San Francisco blues band The Stone Foxes.

StumpJump 50k

The annual event takes place the first Saturday in October on the Signal Mountain, Tennessee, portion of the Cumberland Trail.

Tennessee login law

On June 1, 2011 Tennessee lawmakers passed a new bill that makes sharing login information for sites that provide music and movies, such as Netflix and Napster, illegal.

Tennessee Railroad

In 1991, American country music band The Desert Rose Band filmed part of their music video for the single "You Can Go Home" at the Tennessee Railroad Museum.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

WAY

WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market

WBIN

WSAA, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Benton, Tennessee, United States, known as WBIN-FM from 1996 to 1998

WBLN

WQQR, a radio station (94.7 FM) licensed to Clinton, Kentucky, United States, which used the call sign WBLN from March 1997 to March 1998

West Tennessee

Two future interstates are to travel in West Tennessee: Interstate 69 and Interstate 22.

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

WOPI

WOPI-CA, a television station (TV 9) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee


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