9．The only person in American history to be both an Admiral（海军上将）in the Navy and a General in the Army was Samuel Powhatan Carter who was born in Elizabethton．
10．Greeneville has the only monument in the United States honoring both the Union and Confederate armies．It is located on the lawn of the Green County Courthouse．
11．The city of Murfreesboro lies in the exact geographical center of the state．
12．Grinders Switch，entertainer Minnie Pearl’s fictitious（假想的）hometown，is now an entertainment complex in her real hometown of Centerville．
13．Conifer forests similar to those in Canada are found in the higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park．
14．Hattie Caraway（1878－1950）born in Bakersville became the first woman United States Senator．
15．Davy Crockett was not born on a mountaintop in Tennessee，as the song says．He was born on the banks of Limestone Creek near Greeneville，where a replica of the Crockett’s log cabin stands today．
16．The Tennessee Aquarium（水族馆）is the largest facility of its kind to focus on fresh water habitat．It features 7，000animals and 300species of fish，birds，reptiles（爬行动物），amphibians（两栖动物），and mammals．
17．The largest earthquake in American history，the New Madrid Earthquake occurred in the winter of 1811－1812in northwestern Tennessee．Reelfoot Lake located in Obion and Lake Counties was formed during this earthquake．
18．Reputed“Turtle Capital of the World”，Reelfoot Lake also features thousands of sliders，stinkpots［（产于美国东南部的）一种小麝龟］，mud and map turtles．
19．Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry is the longest continuously running live radio program in the world．It has broadcast every Friday and Saturday night since 1925．
20．The legendary railroad engineer Casey Jones，who was killed when his train crashed on April 30，1900，lived in Jackson．
21．Oak Ridge was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb．Today，because of constant energy research，it is known as the Energy Capital of the World．
22．Tennessee has more than 3，800documented caves．
23．The Alex Haley boyhood home in Henning is the first state－owned historic site devoted to African Americans in Tennessee．
24．Bristol is known as the Birthplace of Country Music．
25．The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States．The park was named for the smoke－like bluish haze（薄雾）that often envelops（包封，遮盖）these fabled mountains．
26．Elvis Presley’s home called Graceland is located in Memphis［孟斐斯（古埃及城市，废墟在今开罗之南）］．Graceland is the second most visited house in the country．
27．Knoxville was home to the 1982World’s Fair．Attendance was recorded at 11，127，786visitors．
28．Tennessee was the last state to secede（正式脱离或退出）from the Union during the Civil War and the first state to be readmitted（重新接纳）after the war．
29．The nation’s oldest African－American architectural firm，McKissack and McKissack，is located in Nashville．
30．The nation’s oldest African－American financial institution，Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company，is located in Nashville．
31．Robert R．Church，Sr．of Memphis is purported to be the South’s first African－American millionaire．
32．The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr．Martin Luther King，Jr．was slain in 1968．The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement．
33．A replica of The Parthenon，the famous ancient Greek building in Athens，Greece，stands in Nashville’s Centennial（百年的）Park．
34．The“Guinness Book of World Records”lists the Lost Sea in Sweetwater as the largest underground lake in the United States．
35．The Cherokee silversmith，Sequoyah，was the only known man in the history of the world to single－handedly develop an alphabet（字母表）．His syllabus（课程提纲）for the Cherokee Nation resulted in the first written language for a Native American people．The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore tells his story and is dedicated to the history and culture of Native Americans．
36．The Watauga Association at Sycamore Shoals near Elizabethton drafted the first constitution ever written by white men in America in 1772．It was patterned after the constitution of the Iroquois League of Nations，a federal system of government developed 200years earlier for five eastern Native American tribes．
37．Gary Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal（描写）of Tennessee war hero Alvin York in the 1941hit movie，Sergeant York．World War I hero Sgt．Alvin C．York was born in Pall Mall．
38．When Tennessee became a state in 1796，the total population was 77，000．
39．The capitol（州议会大厦）building was designed by noted architect William Strickland，who died during its construction and is buried within its walls．
40．Tennessee ranks number one among other states in the total number of soldiers who fought in the War Between the States．
41．Tennesseeans are sometimes referred to as Butternuts（白脱奶特白胡桃的一种），a tag which was first applied to Tennessee soldiers during the Civil War because of the tan color of their uniforms．
42．The Ocoee River in southeastern Tennessee is rated among the top white water recreational rivers in the nation and was the site for the Olympic white water canoe（独木舟，轻舟）／kayak（爱斯基摩人用的皮船）competition in the 1996Olympics．
43．The name“Tennessee”originated from the old Yuchi Indian word，“Tana－see”，meaning“The Meeting Place”．
44．Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville introduced to the world the plaintive beauty and tradition of the Negro spiritual，which became the basis for other genres（类型，流派）of African－American music．It was because of their successful tours to raise funds for the university during the 1870s that Nashville first became known for its music．
45．Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state in the union．It is bordered by 8states．
46．Dolly Parton is a native of Sevierville．A major highway，the Dolly Parton Parkway，takes visitors traveling to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park．
47．The world’s largest artificial skiing surface is located at the Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort in Gatlinburg．There a 5－acre artificial ski surface permits skiing in any type of weather．
