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English: Hand-drawn map of Dyer County showing civil districts, rivers, creeks, and lakes. Wood Lake, the remnant of a much longer waterway apparently created in the wake of the 1812-13 New Madrid earthquakes, is shown in two parts along with other old sloughs and channels from the former course of the Mississippi River.
The old alignment southeast of Celina is now known as Old Livingston Highway. Parts of an even older alignment of State Route 52 in Clay County still remains intact also. All re-routings shortened the route by an estimated total of 4.4 miles (7.1 km) from the previously listed 148.88 miles (239.60 km).
1928-1932 and 1938-1940 Automobile Legal Association Green Book: large scale maps (not very detailed - only major routes) and major city inset maps; turn-by-turn directions can also be used to find old routings through cities; also contains rough route logs (i.e. cities passed through) for some of the longer routes in all eastern states; 1938 ...
Haysborough, Tennessee, originally Fort Union, also spelled Haysboro, is an extinct settlement of the United States that was founded around 1780 and was abandoned within 100 years. [1] Haysborough was located "about seven miles from Nashville, on the Gallatin pike...on the Cumberland. A two-story frame building called the Haysborough tavern, a ...
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 ...
Yahoo! Local Maps in beta (2005) Yahoo! Maps originally launched circa 1998. The data was provided by Vicinity Corporation. [5] A new Adobe Flash-based version called Yahoo! Local Maps was released in Beta in November 2005. [6] In April 2006, aerial and satellite views were added. [7] [8] On May 16, 2007, Yahoo! released a new map style ...
Although Tallassee receives scant attention in primary historical accounts, it is one of the few Overhill towns to be shown on every major 18th-century map of the Little Tennessee Valley. Salvage excavations conducted in the 1950s prior to construction of a dam on the Little Tennessee River also revealed much earlier indigenous habitation here ...
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 ...