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Salem was laid out on the Salem and Eagleville Pike. [2] A post office called Salem Cross Roads was established in 1839, and closed in 1840. [3]However, in the 1800s to the mid-1900s or so, there was a place called spoken of at the Salem community in or near Birchwood, Tennessee.
March 5 – Tennessee's first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in Williamson County, marking the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee. 2023 March 27 – A mass shooting occurs at a private Presbyterian Church in America parochial school in Nashville, Tennessee , killing three children, three adults, and the perpetrator.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Each of Tennessee's 95 counties has at least one listing. 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 ...
Mississippian — c. 900 to 1600 AD; Cherokee — affiliated with proto-historic and historic Cherokee occupation (c. 1600-1800) British colonial — affiliated with Euro-American expansion, pre-1776. American — affiliated with Euro-American occupation or events post-1776; The sites are listed alphabetically by county.
Virginia map, on the eve of colonization 1606. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, applied to Charles I for a royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. After Calvert died in April 1632, the charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin Terra Mariae) was granted to his son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632 ...
The werewolf trials. While most people know of the witch trials that took place in Europe and in the American colonies (including Salem, Massachusetts) during the 1500's and 1600's, few are aware ...
3 1800-1829. 4 1830s. 5 1840s. 6 1850s. 7 1860s. 8 1870s. 9 1880s. ... from the early 1600s to present. Part of a series on: Organized labour; Labour movement ...