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When Tennessee was founded as a state on June 1, 1796, the area around Clarksville and to the east was named Tennessee County. (This county was established in 1788, by North Carolina.) Later, Tennessee County was broken up into modern day Montgomery and Robertson counties, named to honor the men who first opened up the region for settlement.
The school system has a graduation rate of 94.3% which is higher than the state of Tennessee's 89.6%. There are 44 schools in the district: one K-5 Magnet School, 24 elementary, 8 middle, 7 high, an Alternative School, one Early Technical College at Tennessee College of Applied Technology, and one Middle College, which is located on the campus ...
The Tennessee Historical Commission, which manages the state's participation in the National Register program, reports that 80 percent of the state's area has been surveyed for historic buildings. Surveys for archaeological sites have been less extensive; coverage is estimated less than 5 percent of the state.
Fort Campbell High School, Fort Campbell. The Fort Campbell Army base straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The school is physically located in Tennessee, but is not a member of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, the state's governing body for interscholastic activities.
The county was named for John Montgomery, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and an early settler who founded the city of Clarksville. It was authorized on April 9, 1796, when the western portion of Tennessee County, which since 1790 had been part of the Territory South of the River Ohio, became part of the new state of Tennessee.
It was excavated professionally in the 2005 to 2010 archaeological field school led by Dr. Kevin E. Smith from Middle Tennessee State University. A number of important finds have been associated with the site, most particularly several examples of Mississippian stone statuary and the "Castalian Springs shell gorget," now held by the National ...
SR 378 north (Market Street) Western end of SR 378 concurrency: SR 378 south (Market Street) Eastern end of SR 378 concurrency: US 27 (Rhea County Highway/SR 29) – Chattanooga, Soddy-Daisy, Spring City: Old Washington: SR 302 north (Old Dixie Highway) – Spring City: Southern terminus of SR 302: Tennessee River: Washington Ferry Bridge over ...
Location mi km Destinations Notes; Bradley: Cleveland: 26.8: 43.1: US 11 / US 64 (Ocoee Street/Broad Street/Inman Street/SR 40/SR 74) – Chattanooga, Athens, Ocoee: Eastern Terminus: US 11 Byp. (Keith Street/SR 2) – Cleveland: Hamilton: Snow Hill: SR 58 north – Georgetown, Decatur: Eastern end of SR 58 concurrency: SR 58 south – Chattanooga