The story behind historic War Department letter When you start researching the story behind a single document, you never know…
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Bill Carey, columnist for The Tennessee Magazine and Tennessee history guy, shares little known facts from Tennessee history.
To the best of my knowledge, it is the only permanently flooded structure quite like it in Tennessee. However, few…
Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Tennessee — 6,643 feet above sea level. I suspect that most of the…
In a story that involves Tennessee’s colonial and Native American history, a proposal to deed 76 acres of Tellico Lake…
Some places are recognized for the important and interesting events that occurred there. Then there is Nickajack Cave in Marion…
Thanks to the new social studies standards, the civil rights movement in Tennessee is finally receiving the recognition it deserves.…
The Tennessee Valley Authority built a dam in Johnson County in the 1940s, permanently flooding the valley that included the…
The more I read stories about the early history of Middle Tennessee, the more I am struck by how much…
Twice in the last three years I have written about Middle Tennessee historic sites that were in danger of being…
In 1850, about one in five Tennesseans was held against his or her will, forced to live as a slave.…