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The Tennessee River is a 652 mi (1,049 km) long river located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. Flowing through the states of Tennessee , Alabama , Mississippi , Kentucky , it begins at the confluence of French Broad and Holston rivers at Knoxville , and drains into the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky .
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. − A group of employees from a plastics factory clung to spools of flexible yellow plastic pipes on the back of a flatbed semitruck for hours waiting for help as the Nolichucky ...
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Tennessee River from the Ohio River upstream to its source(s). This transport-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
This is especially the case with the cantilever truss bridge that carries southbound traffic, since it cannot be widened and is outdated. Previously, ALDOT estimated in 2014 that a new toll bridge across the Tennessee River would cost $444 million, but local opposition caused that proposed project to be cancelled in January 2015. Following its ...
The Market Street Bridge, officially referred to as the John Ross Bridge, is a bascule bridge that spans the Tennessee River between downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Northshore District. It carries North Market Street (formerly designated as U.S. Route 127), and was named in honor of Cherokee Chief John Ross. The bridge was completed in ...
The Eva site (40BN12) is a prehistoric Native American site in Benton County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States.Located along an ancient channel of the Tennessee River, the Eva site saw extensive periods of occupation during the Middle and Late Archaic period (c. 6000-1000 BC).
The road then reduces to four lanes, passing adjacent to the east side of the river again, before reaching a trumpet interchange with Cherokee Trail and the road to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, expanding back to six lanes and once again becoming a freeway. US 129 then crosses the Tennessee River on the James E. "Buck" Karnes Bridge.
Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet (94 m). The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. 1879/1880. It was replaced by a vertical lift span in 1917, but the lift towers and machinery were not installed until 1920.