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Erle P. Halliburton, the founder of Halliburton Company (the world's second largest oil field service company), was born in Henning. Alex Haley, author, best known for Roots, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and acclaimed television miniseries; Henning was his boyhood home; Jim Hickman, Major League Baseball outfielder, 1962–74
Alex Haley House and Museum State Historic Site is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's state-owned historic sites and is located in Henning, Tennessee, United States. It is open to the public and partially funded by an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission.
Location of Loudon County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Loudon County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The Knoxville Gazette, first Tennessee newspaper, begun. 1794 Blount College, a predecessor of the University of Tennessee, founded in Knoxville, first American nondenominational institution of higher learning. 1796 February 6 - Tennessee adopts a constitution. June 1 - Tennessee becomes the 16th of the United States.
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 ...
Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee, in 2007. Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the eldest of three brothers (the other two being George and Julius) and a half-sister (from his father's second marriage).
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee swiftly appointed a new board, which halted the search and chose an interim president. The newly seated board cited the need for a fresh start and time to get the ...
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