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The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 in Houston, Texas as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). The Oilers won the first t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Tennessee. Official Website History White settlement began around 1800, and the county was formally organized in 1807 and named for Benjamin Franklin. One of the most notable early settlers was frontiersman Davy Crockett, who came about 1812 but is not thought to have remained long. The University of the South, f...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = This is the master project for Tennessee and its history. =State of Tennessee=* Nickname(s): The Volunteer State* Motto(s): Agriculture and Commerce* Demonym Tennessean* Capital Nashville* Largest city Memphis==Welcome to the Tennessee project==The Tennessee project is created in order to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives in Tenness...
Wikipedia = Find a Grave Nashville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Madison, a suburb of Nashville, in Davidson County, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 64.5 acres (26.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 34,637 interments.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Tennessee. Official website History Greene County developed from the "Nolichucky settlement," established by pioneer Jacob Brown on land leased in the early 1770s from the Cherokee people. The Nolichucky settlement was aligned with the Watauga settlement, centered in modern Elizabethton. Greene County was formed in...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Tennessee.Jewish Settlement in TennesseeBy Peter J. Haas , Vanderbilt UniversityThe settlement of Jews in Tennessee reflected the larger migration and settlement patterns of Jews within the United States over the last two centuries. These patterns created distinctive forms of Jewish life in the major Jewish communities of Tenness...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Maury County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History The county was formed in 1807 andwas named in honor of Abram Maury, Sr. (1766-1825), a member of the Tennessee state senate from Williamson County. The rich soil of Maury County led to a thriving agricultural sector, starting in the 19th century. The county was part of a 41-county ...
Disclaimer: This project is not endorsed by Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry and is for genealogical purposes.Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, Nashville, TN: Wikipedia
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Tennessee. Official Website History Washington County is Tennessee's oldest county, having been established in 1777 when the state was still part of North Carolina. Watauga and the Washington District Washington County is rooted in the Watauga settlements, which were established in the early 1770s in the vicin...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grainger County, Tennessee. Official Website History Grainger County was formed from Knox and Hawkins Counties in 1796, the year Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States. It is named for Mary Grainger Blount, wife of William Blount. During the American Civil War, a state of near-guerrilla warfare brought economic...
This cemetery, established in 1839/1840, is located on McLemore Avenue, Spring Hill, Maury County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
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This cemetery is located on Hickman Highwayy in the City of Gordonsville, Smith County, Tennessee. The cemetery is owned and maintained by the J.L. Bass Funeral Home in Gordonsville. Find a Grave
Abernathy Cemetery, #2 Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave Highway 31S, left into Old Stage Road on right at foot of hill, on the west side of Hardy Road. This is the former Larkin Birdsong land, and before that the James Abernathy land. Only 3 marked graves are known here (I.M. Abernathy, Annie Abernathy, and Laura E. Abernathy). Other sources say that most likely James B. "Jimmy D...
From Livingston, Overton County, Tennessee, take TN 52 E / TN 85 E travel 1.4 miles. Turn left and the cemetery will be on the right. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located In the woods off Dickens Lane and Ferguson Hollow, in Smith County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Roots Web
This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Giles County, Tennessee. Giles County is named after William Branch Giles, a senator from Virginia who sponsored the admission of Tennessee as the 16th state into the Union. He also sponsored the building of the city and courthouse, which has burned four times. The current courthouse was built in 1909. One of Giles County's local heroe...
Galen Cemetery is found on the 9th District Map 29, Parcel 40.00. Route 4 Lafayette, Tennessee. Information from the Macon County (TN) Historical Society. Macon County, Tennessee Cemeteries Volume II published in 1989, page 197. Find a Grave
Melungeon (pronounced /məˈlʌndʒən/ or "muh'lun-jun" or "muh-lun'jun") is a term traditionally applied to a tri-racial isolate group centered in Newman Ridge and Blackwater in Hancock County, Tennessee. They are found mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of east Tennessee (Hancock and Hawkins Counties), southwest Virginia (Lee County), and eastern Kent...
The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood drove north from Atlanta, threatening Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's lines of com...
This cemetery is located on Cowan Highway, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
The naval battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee (sometimes known as the engagement at Plum Point Bend) took place on the Mississippi River between ships of the Confederate River Defense Fleet, which consisted of a number of wooden sidewheel paddleboats converted to naval rams, and ships of the Union Mississippi River Squadron, which consisted of a number of ironclads, approximately four miles above ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cocke County, Tennessee. Official Website Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that is now Cocke County was inhabited by the Cherokee. The first recorded European settlement in the county was in 1783 when land near the fork of the French Broad and the Pigeon Rivers was cleared and cultivated. The earliest European settl...
Wikipedia =Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood of the City of Memphis, in Shelby County, Tennessee. Find a Grave