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The large, box-like first floor was largely eliminated. Added to the entrance on Constitution Avenue were a pond, garden, and bridge, so that visitors would have to "cross over the water" like slaves did when they came to America. [55] The Smithsonian estimated in February 2012 that museum would to open in 2015. [56]
Location of Polk County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Polk County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
2007 – Steve Cohen becomes U.S. representative for Tennessee's 9th congressional district. [42] 2008 – February 5–6: Tornado outbreak. 2009 October: A C Wharton elected mayor. [43] City open government standard enacted. [44] 2012 – Population: 655,155. 2015 – October 8: Jim Strickland elected mayor. [45] 2016 – Raleigh Springs Mall ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Tennessee that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 2,000 in total. There are over 2,000 in total. Of these, 29 are National Historic Landmarks .
Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7 is the oldest public building in Franklin, the oldest Masonic Hall in continuous use in Tennessee, and in 1830 was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Franklin, which ordered the removal of the Chickasaw people from their eastern homeland to territory across the Mississippi River.
From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. [4] [5] Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.
On January 1, 1970, Whitehaven was forcefully annexed by the City of Memphis. [12] Prior to this annexation, the residents of the area did not want to be a part of Memphis. Several years later after Whitehaven became the city's territory, the majority of the white families of the area left and moved to the outer-Memphis suburbs. [13]
The western terminus of Tennessee State Route 1 (SR 1) sits on the Tennessee–Arkansas boundary halfway across the bridge. Opened in 1949, the bridge is currently the oldest bridge on the Interstate Highway System in Tennessee and Arkansas. It is currently planned to be replaced with a larger and wider bridge, starting in 2026.