In 1756, the Cherokee stood and watched a small
British group of soldiers begin construction on a fort in the
Little Tennessee Valley near the junction of the Tellico and Little
Tennessee River................
The
Scots-Irish of Tennessee
The Scots-Irish have been back in the news recently as researchers
and scholars continue discovering things about this remarkable
culture that settled much of America and came to dominate Southern
Appalachian culture....................................................................................
The
Founding of Tennessee
In 1606, following the settlement
of the Virginia colony, King James I chartered the region as a
British province. European immigration to the new world increased
with each passing year and soon American real estate started becoming
a worthy possession for British officials...............................
The story
of John Sevier
In Washington, D.C., there is a lone
statue that stands alongside those of the men America honors as
its Founding Fathers. .......................................................................................
The
Battle of Kings Mountain
In the early and mid-18th
century, settlers in what is today Tennessee were unknown to the
outside world, especially the one just over the ridges of the
Appalachian mountains..............................................
Sequoyah
He was born among the ruins of
Fort Loudoun in present day Monroe County, Tenn. around the year
1760. The Cherokee infant was the son of a white trader named
Nathaniel Gist................
William Blount
No one individual played so large
a role in the formation of Tennessee statehood as did William
Blount. For many people, however, he was regarded as an eccentric
and little was known about his life and times. ..................................................................
The Murder
of Meriwether Lewis
The Natchez Trace National Parkway in middle Tennessee is a patchwork
of level wooded forests and rolling plains that attracts hundreds
of thousands of tourists to the state each year to drive along
one of the nation’s oldest and most colorful highways.
The Battle
of Horseshoe Bend
In the years following the American
Revolution, colonial expansion continued westward across the State
of Tennessee and the northern territories. ..........................................
The
Battle of New Orleans
Although the Battle of Horseshoe
Bend was a principal action in the War of 1812, the Creek Wars
were handled separately from the general war effort and financed
by the states of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama................................................................................
America’s
Oldest ‘X-File’
Perhaps no one story of the paranormal in Tennessee has ever gained
so much attention as the following story. No one has been able
to explain the middle Tennessee phenomena, but it has been a subject
of discussion for more than 150 years in America.......................................................................
President
Andrew Jackson
Andrew
Jackson is traditionally reported to have been born on March 15,
1767 near Waxhaw, SC. His father was an Irish immigrant, who had
died shortly after his birth. Jackson’s mother, however,
continued on in the true frontier fashion of the day and raised
Andrew and his three brothers in the backwoods of early America.
Chief John
Ross
John Ross was born on Oct. 3, 1790
near Lookout Mountain in southeastern Tennessee. His father was
Daniel Ross, who had immigrated to America from Scotland prior
to the American Revolution
.The
Trail of Tears
In 1815, a small Cherokee boy was
playing along the Chestatee River in Northern Georgia when he
picked up a colored rock and brought it home to show his mother.
The Forgotten
Volunteer
He was an individual who is credited
with, among other things, being an instrumental force in holding
together a loose-knit group of soldiers in one of American history's
most
trying times. .................................................................................
David
Crockett
David Crockett was born on Aug. 17,
1786–not on a mountaintop, but along the banks of the Nolichucky
River in Greene County. He was the fifth of six sons and one daughter
born to John and Rebecca Crockett...........................................................................
Sam Houston
Sam Houston was born on March 6,
1793 in Lexington, VA. His father was a farmer and a member of
the Militia, which kept him away for long periods of time. He
learned how to read and write at an early age and was a voracious
reader........................................................
Tennesseans
at the Alamo
Following the defeat of
Congressman David Crockett at the hands of then-President Andrew
Jackson, the Cherokee Removal from Southern Appalachia, and an
American economy that seemed to be out of control, many Tennesseans
started casting their eyes westward to different lands where they
could start over and find the traditional opportunities that were
disappearing from their home state...........
President James
K. Polk
James Knox Polk was born on Nov.
2, 1795 in the wilderness of North Carolina. He was of Scots-Irish
descent and part of the rugged frontier stock that had settled
the region.....................................
The man who
would be President
He was a man born into a middle-class
American home, who would rise to become a prominent journalist
and adventurer. It would be a journey that would take him to the
highest levels of power in Central America and leave behind a
legend still debated to this day.
The Mexican War
How Tennessee became the "Volunteer" State...When
Tennessean James K. Polk was elected to the Presidency in 1844,
he followed through on his campaign promise to annex the Independent
Republic of Texas into the United States.
The story of ‘Jack’
Daniel
In the last one hundred years, one
of Tennessee’s most famous trademarks has been Jack Daniel’s
whiskey. The man, who go on to become one of the nation’s
most recognizable distillers got his start as a young boy in the
backwoods of middle Tennessee. ..............................................................................
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