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Sam Houston

Sam Houston, by W. B. Cooper, 1845.

Samuel Doak

Samuel Doak.

Sarah Childress Polk

President and Mrs. Sarah Polk in 1848.

Sarah Childress Polk

Sarah Childress Polk, copy of G.P.A. Healey portrait by George Dury.

Saturn Corporation

Assembly line at the Saturn plant, Spring Hill, circa 1996.

Scarritt College For Christian Workers

Scarritt College for Christian Workers.

Seeing Eye, Inc.

Morris Frank's Seeing Eye dog Buddy, 1937.

Sequatchie County

The Pikeville Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Bledsoe County.

Sequoyah

Sequoyah teaching Ahyokey the Cherokee syllabary.

Shelby County

Shelby County Courthouse.

Sit-Ins, Nashville

Citizens arrested at Cain-Sloan department store in Nashville, April 1960.

Slavery

Slaves "sold to Tennessee" from Augusta County, Virginia.

Soloman Federal Building

The Federal Building in Chattanooga was constructed as a cooperative project between the R. H. Hunt company and a New York City firm.

Sorghum-Making

Sorghum-making near White Bluff, 1939.

Southern Adventist University

Wright Hall, housing the administration offices, the cafeteria, and the student center, has become the primary landmark of Southern Adventist University. First occupied in the 1967-68 school year, it is named for Kenneth A. Wright, president of the college from 1943-1955.

Southern College Of Optometry

A new clinical facility for the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis was opened in 1953 at the 1245 Madison location. It was later expanded to include a campus of new administrative offices, classrooms, and library at 1246 Union.

Southwest Territory

Map of the Tennessee Government, 1794, part of the Southwest Territory.

Sparta Rock House

Sparta Rock House in White County.

St. Andrew's-Sewanee School

The St. Andrews-Sewanee School.

St. John's Episcopal Church

St. John s Episcopal Church, Maury County.

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