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1295828 [4] Normandy is a town in Bedford County, Tennessee. The population was 108 at the 2020 census. Normandy Dam is located just northeast of the town. The town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Normandy Historic District. The historic Beech Hall is also located near Normandy.
195 sq mi (510 km 2) [1] Surface area. 2,490 acres (1,010 ha) [1] Normandy Dam is a dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on the Duck River in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It straddles the border between Bedford and Coffee counties. Completed in 1976, the dam was built primarily for flood control and economic development purposes ...
There are 95 counties in the U.S. State of Tennessee. As of 2023, Shelby County was both Tennessee's most populous county, with 910,042 residents, and the largest county in area, covering an area of 755 sq mi (1,955 km 2). The least populous county was Pickett County (5,128) and the smallest in area was Trousdale County, covering 114 sq mi (295 ...
Normandy Archaeological Project. The Normandy Archaeological Project was a rescue excavation designed to preserve the archaeological history of the area before it became submerged by the construction of the Normandy Reservoir Dam through funding from the Tennessee Valley Authority. After the construction of the dam, historic information about ...
Trousdale County, also known as Hartsville/Trousdale County, [3] is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,615. [4] Its county seat is Hartsville, [5] with which it shares a uniquely formed consolidated city-county government. With an area of just 117 square miles (300 km 2), it is Tennessee's ...
the Duck and Buffalo rivers. The Duck River, 284 miles (457 km) long, [1] is the longest river located entirely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. Free flowing for most of its length, the Duck River is home to over 50 species of freshwater mussels and 151 species of fish, making it the most biologically diverse river in North America.
The Elk River rises in Grundy County, Tennessee, in Burroughs Cove near the community of Elkhead. It is bridged for the first time by State Route 50 near Pelham, Tennessee. At first it flows southwestward, and turns to flow more generally westward. It is then bridged by both U.S. Route 41 and Interstate 24. Shortly below this point, it forms ...
The Battle of Shiloh was some of the bloodiest days of the war with more casualties in two days than the American Revolution, The War of 1812, and The Mexican-American War combined in one battle. [2] In the early morning on April 6, 1862, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was getting his troops ready in both nearby Savannah, Tennessee and Adamsville ...