Tennessee Miscellaneous Topics

The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. European settlers later encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi (or "Tanase") in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. The town was located on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River). It is not known whether this was the same town as the one encountered by Juan Pardo.

The meaning and origin of the word are uncertain. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the great bend".[5][6] According to James Mooney, the name "can not be analyzed" and its meaning is lost (Mooney, pg. 534).

The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee County", the third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee. (Tennessee County was the predecessor to current-day Montgomery County and Robertson County). When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state.

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• The State of Tennessee has seven State Songs [7].
• On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the thirty-sixth and clinching state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allowed women the right to vote.
• USS Tennessee: Four ships of the United States Navy (and two ships of the Confederate States Navy) have been named in honor of Tennessee.
• Crossville, Tennessee is the location of the United States Chess Federation.
• Knoxville, Tennessee is home to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Tennessee was the home of three U.S. Presidents: Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and James K. Polk.
• Tennessee is the home of Miss America's 1947 and 1987 Barbara Walker from Memphis and Kellye Cash from Milan, Miss Teen USA 1997 Shelly Moore from Knoxville, Miss USA's 2000 and 2007 Lynnette Cole from Columbia and Rachel Smith from Clarksville.