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Tennessee's current state seal, adopted in 1987, is a modernized version of the seal originally designed in 1801. The seal features the words "Agriculture" and "Commerce" and the date of the state's founding. The number 16 appears as a Roman numeral, signifying that Tennessee was the 16th U.S. state.
The Fire Museum of Memphis is located in Fire Engine House No. 1 on 118 Adams Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.In the heart of downtown Memphis, the FMOM (Fire Museum of Memphis) is considered the premiere fire museum in the country, dedicated to documenting and promoting the local history of fire fighting and educating the public in fire and life safety.
Firefighting jargon includes a diverse lexicon of both common and idiosyncratic terms. One problem that exists in trying to create a list such as this is that much of the terminology used by a particular department is specifically defined in their particular standing operating procedures, such that two departments may have completely different terms for the same thing.
But it was in March 1885 when the city of Knoxville formed a full-time, paid fire department. By the turn of the century, the number of firefighters in the department had grown to 30. [3] With the increase in personnel came the need for more fire stations and better equipment.
In true Tennessee style, the lingering summer weather and humidity drove heat indexes north of 100 degrees for some on their first day. Our Tennessean photojournalists fanned out across three ...
Pages in category "School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mar. 22—DANVILLE — Danville Area High School students were challenged to gear up and venture through a maze of artificial smoke to tackle a simulated fire set up in the high school's field ...
The academy was founded in 1902 as Castle Heights School outside of Lebanon, Tennessee. [1] [2] [3] Its founders were David Mitchell, president of Cumberland University; Isaac W. P. Buchanan, a mathematics teacher at the recently defunct Cumberland Preparatory School; Amzi W. Hooker, a resident of Lebanon; and Laban Lacy Rice, a former English instructor at the Cumberland Preparatory School.