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The IRA was the most significant initiative of John Collier, who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) from 1933 to 1945. He had long studied Indian issues and worked for change since the 1920s, particularly with the American Indian Defense Association. He intended to reverse the ...
Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ is a historic church at 3 Lindsley Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built in 1894 and added to the National Register in 1984. It is across the road from the Nashville Children's Theatre. [2] The Church was founded by David Lipscomb. Dr.
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.
Ira A. Watson Co., more commonly known as Watson's was a department store chain based in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1907 and grew to many locations throughout the Southeastern United States. The company was purchased for $4.45 million (~$7.76 million in 2023) by Peebles with the transaction closing June 29, 1998. [1]
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 ...
Tennessee State Parks – Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park; Political History of Tennessee Began in 1772 with Adoption of "Written Articles of Association" — article at TNGenWeb by Dallas Bogan; Chapter II, Watauga—Its Settlement and Government — in The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century by J. G. M. Ramsey, 1853.
1828 – The Atlas becomes the first steamboat to reach Knoxville, having successfully navigated the lower Tennessee River; 1834 – East Tennessee Historical and Antiquarian Society founded. 1844 – Tennessee Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb established. [7] 1845 – Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church congregation established.
Shortly after the cabin's completion, Lydia Bean gave birth to a son, Russell Bean, who would be historically accepted as the first European American born in present-day Tennessee. [8] The Bean family encountered aggressive confrontations with the inhabiting Cherokee tribes , and found distaste in the growing popularity of the Watauga Association .