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Glenamaddy, or Glennamaddy (Irish: Gleann na Madadh), [2] is a small town in County Galway, Ireland. 50 km north-east of Galway city, it lies at the crossroads of the R362 and R364 roads. Glenamaddy became a musical focal point in Connacht during the 1960s during the showband era. [citation needed] To the east of the town lies Loch Lurgeen, a ...
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 ...
The city was the location of the now defunct Lakeland Amusement Park. The city was originally themed around the Lake now called Garner Lake. It had two railroads within the park property, including the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge [5] Huff 'n' Puff Railroad and a separate 16 in (406 mm) miniature railway [6] [7] railroad made by the Allan Herschell Company.
Gallatin is a city in and the county seat of Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. [5] The population was 30,278 at the 2010 census and 44,431 at the 2020 census. [6] Named for United States Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, the city was established on the Cumberland River and made the county seat of Sumner County in 1802.
The city repealed its charter in 1899, but reincorporated in 1908, and incorporated as a city in 1963. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During the 1920s, Adams began to receive a steady flow of automobile traffic due to its location along U.S. Route 41 , which was one of the main roads linking the Chicago area with Florida .
Cordova grew from a quiet country farm hamlet with a population of 150 people in 1912 to one of the fastest growing neighborhoods of Memphis. Retail growth exploded in the late 1990s thanks to the Wolfchase Galleria shopping mall, which at the time was the largest retail center in unincorporated Shelby County outside of the Memphis city limits.
Ashland City is a town and the county seat of Cheatham County, Tennessee. Located in Middle Tennessee, it is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 5,193. [6]
Sweetwater is a city in Monroe and McMinn counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the most populous city in Monroe County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,312. [4] Sweetwater is the home of the Craighead Caverns which contains the Lost Sea, the United States' largest underground lake. In 2022, TravelMag named Sweetwater one of ...