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The oldest continuously operating trade union in North America, [2] BAC was founded in 1865 as the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of America (BMPIU). It was established during a great wave of blue-collar union formation in the 1860s.
Ocoee Dam Number 1 is a hydroelectric dam on the Ocoee River in Polk County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The dam impounds the 1,930-acre (780 ha) Parksville Reservoir (often called Ocoee Lake or Parksville Lake) and is the farthest downstream of four dams on the Toccoa/Ocoee River owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Tennessee has a reputation as low-tax state and is usually ranked as one of the five states with the lowest tax burden on residents. [7] It is one of nine states that do not have a general income tax; the sales tax is the primary means of funding the government. [8] The Hall income tax was a tax imposed on most dividends and interest.
Like East Tennessee, Polk has always leaned Republican, though to a lesser extent than most counties in the region. However, during the Great Depression and World War II , this changed drastically, with Polk County giving 92.7% of the vote to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 (it swung hard to the GOP between 1944 and 1948).
This is a list of Superfund sites in Tennessee designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
District 8 covers much of rural East Tennessee in between Knoxville and the Tri-Cities, including all of Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Jefferson, Union Counties, and part of Sevier County. Communities in the district include Jefferson City, Harrogate, Strawberry Plains, New Tazewell, Bean Station, Dandridge, Maynardville, Sneedville. [3]
The 8th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in West Tennessee.It has been represented by Republican David Kustoff since January 2017. The district appears rural on a map, but the bulk of its vote is cast in the suburban and exurban areas around Memphis, such as Germantown, Bartlett, and Collierville, as well as Fayette and Tipton counties.
The Tennessee House of Representatives 8th district in the United States is one of 99 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly. It covers the some of Knoxville's suburbs in Blount County , with the exceptions of large portions of Maryville and Alcoa , and all of Friendsville and Louisville .