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6 unusual facts about Tennessee River


Athearnia anthonyi

It is native to three rivers in the Tennessee River system in the United States: the main branch and the Sequatchie River and Limestone Creek.

Cumberland slider

It is found throughout the Mississippi and Tennessee River drainages, and the southeastern U.S. This species prefers quiet waters with muddy bottoms.

Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee

The diocesan motto, Ubique Inter Flumina, means "everywhere between the rivers", referring to the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, which bracket West Tennessee on two sides.

Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment

At the end of 1815, cognizant of the poor condition of interior roads and the adverse impact it had on the outcome of the War of 1812, General Andrew Jackson suggested building a military road from New Orleans to the Tennessee River.

John Leak Springston

He was the son of Anderson Springston and Sallie Eliot, Cherokees who walked the Trail of Tears from Gunter's Landing, Alabama on the Tennessee River, some 600 miles to Indian Territory.

Spiny river snail

This species is endemic to the Tennessee River and its larger tributaries, but it has been largely extirpated due to pollution and the construction of dams.


Brown's Ferry, Tennessee

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee is an historical crossing point over the Tennessee River between Lookout Valley and Moccasin Bend in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Decatur County, Tennessee

The county was created in November 1845 from the part of Perry County west of the Tennessee River in response to a petition by citizens on the west side of the river who lacked easy access to the county seat, which was located on the east side of the river.

Dromedary naiad

The only remaining reproducing populations occur in the Clinch and Powell Rivers.

Edward Salomon

He was lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 1860 to 1862 before becoming governor after Harvey drowned in the Tennessee River while visiting Wisconsin troops after the Battle of Shiloh.

Guntersville Lake

Created by Guntersville Dam along the Tennessee River, it stretches 75 miles (121 km) from Guntersville Dam to Nickajack Dam.

Homer Hickam

In 1984, Hickam was presented with Alabama's Distinguished Service Award for heroism shown during a rescue effort of the crew and passengers of a sunken paddleboat in the Tennessee River.

Lake Strom Thurmond

At 71,000 acres (287 kmĀ²), it is the third-largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi River, behind the Kentucky Lake on the Tennessee River and Lake Marion on the Santee River.

Madison, Alabama

Portions of the 5th Ohio Cavalry, the 59th Indiana Infantry and the 5th Iowa Infantry were sent in pursuit from Huntsville and skirmished with Patterson's rear guard that evening at Fletcher's Ferry on the Tennessee River south of Madison.

Mottled sculpin

It is widespread from the Tennessee River north to Labrador, while separate populations are found in the Missouri River, the Columbia River system in southern Canada, and the Bonneville system of the Great Basin.

Pearl hunting

In a similar manner as in Asia, Native Americans harvested freshwater pearls from lakes and rivers like the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi, while others successfully retrieved marine pearls from the Caribbean and waters along the coasts of Central and South America.

Second Battle of Chattanooga

On August 21, Wilder reached the Tennessee River opposite Chattanooga and ordered the 18th Indiana Light Artillery (Capt. Eli Lilly's battery) to begin shelling the town.

Sequatchie Valley

The Sequatchie River drains the valley in Tennessee, flowing south to southwest from the southern part of Cumberland County, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near the Alabama border.

Suttree

Set in 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River.

Tony Crunk

Crunk's 2010 New Covenant Bound is a collection of poems inspired by the displacement between 1935 and 1969 of some 20,000 inhabitants from the area between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers in western Kentucky and Tennessee.

Towboat

In the United States above St. Louis on the Upper Mississippi River and on other rivers such as the Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee and Cumberland, boats can handle only up to 15 barges due the size of lock chambers.

Tuscumbia, Alabama

Although shoals on the nearby Tennessee River made the river nearly impassable, a Federal Highway completed in 1820 provided the area with good access to markets.


see also

2nd Arkansas Light Artillery

There were more actions at Murfreesboro and Farmington, but by October 9 Wheeler had safely crossed the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Brown's Ferry

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee, a ferry crossing point over the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tennessee

Fort Loudoun

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

Fort Loudoun Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States

McEntire

Rhea-McEntire House, historic antebellum mansion on the shoreline of the Tennessee River's Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama

West Tennessee

River that empty into the Tennessee River include the Big Sandy River and Beech River.

Wheeler's October 1863 Raid

Wheeler escaped across the Tennessee River on October 9 at Rogersville, Alabama, but not before another 95 of his horsemen were overwhelmed near Pulaski, Tennessee.