Turley, Thomas Battle
Thomas B. Turley, lawyer and U.S. senator, was born in [...]
Turley, William B.
William B. Turley was called "the most brilliant judge we [...]
Turner, Tina
Tina Turner, one of Tennessee's most popular performers, gained international [...]
Turney, Peter
Governor and State Supreme Court Justice Peter Turney was born [...]
Tusculum College
Tusculum College is the oldest college in Tennessee, having been [...]
Tyson, Lawrence
Lawrence Tyson, Tennessee's only World War I general, was born [...]
U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc.
This Chattanooga-based trucking firm, in business since 1985, has grown [...]
Unicoi County
Located in the mountains of upper East Tennessee, Unicoi County [...]
Union County
Union County was formed in 1850 from portions of Anderson, [...]
Union University
Located in Jackson, Union University is a private institution of [...]
United Confederate Veterans Association (Tennessee)
In 1888 Baton Rouge druggist Leon Jastremski returned from a [...]
United Methodist Publishing House
The first Methodist publishing efforts began as the Methodist Book [...]
United Sons and Daughters of Charity Lodge Hall
The United Sons and Daughters of Charity Lodge Hall in [...]
United States Army Corps of Engineers
First established as an arm of the Continental Army, the [...]
United States Army of the Cumberland
During the Civil War, Union forces in Tennessee were part [...]
United States Christian Commission
The United States Christian Commission, a project of the Young [...]
Timberlake, Henry
Colonial journalist and cartographer Henry Timberlake was born in Virginia [...]
Timberlake, Justin
If one could describe Justin Timberlake’s career in terms of [...]
Tims Ford State Park
Tims Ford State Park is a 431-acre park adjacent to [...]
Tipton County
The area forming West Tennessee was part of the Chickasaw [...]
Tipton, Isabel Hanson
Isabel Hanson Tipton, physicist, was born in Monroe, Georgia, June [...]
Tipton, John
Prominent backcountry era settler and political leader best known for [...]
Tipton-Haynes Historic Site
The Tipton-Haynes Historic Site in Johnson City represents several eras [...]
Tobacco
When the early settlers came to Tennessee and began to [...]
Todd, Mary "Molly" Hart
Although she rarely held elective office, Molly Todd played an [...]
Toqua
Toqua was an eighteenth-century Overhill Cherokee village located on the [...]
Trail of Tears, or Nunna-da-ul-tsun-yi
The Trail of Tears (or Nunna-da-ul-tsun-yi in the Cherokee language: [...]
Transylvania Purchase
The Transylvania Purchase occurred on March 14, 1775, when Richard [...]
Travellers Rest
Travellers Rest was the Nashville home of Judge John and [...]
Treadwell and Harry Insurance Company
This Memphis company was the first insurance agency in the [...]
Treaties
Relationships between Tennessee's Native Americans and the Europeans who came [...]
Trevecca Nazarene University
Trevecca Nazarene University began in 1901. The Reverend J. O. [...]
Trinity Music City, USA
Trinity Music City, USA, was established on thirty-three acres in [...]
Tri-State Bank
One of the largest black-owned businesses in the state, Tri-State [...]
Troost, Gerard
Gerard Troost, geologist, was born in s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on March [...]
Trotwood, John (1858-1929) and Moore, Mary Daniel (1875-1957)
When appointed as state librarian and archivist in March 1919 [...]
The Fugitives
The Fugitives were a group of influential early twentieth-century poets [...]
The Hermitage
The home of Andrew Jackson, now a public museum, is [...]
The Parthenon
This Nashville landmark is the world's only exact-size replica of [...]
The Patrons of Husbandry
The Patrons of Husbandry, or Grange, was the first general [...]
The Scopes Trial
In mid-July 1925 much of the nation's attention was focused [...]
The Sewanee Review
The Sewanee Review, founded by William Peterfield Trent in 1892 [...]
The Southwestern Company
Recognized as the oldest door-to-door sales company in the United [...]
Theater
The history of theater runs throughout the Tennessee past. Early [...]
Foothills Parkway
Originally envisioned as a 71-mile scenic route paralleling the Tennessee [...]
Thomas Nelson Publishers
In the early 1950s, a young immigrant named Sam Moore [...]
Thomas, Anne Taylor Jones
Chattanooga philanthropist Anne Taylor Jones Thomas was a native of [...]
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin
Chattanooga businessman and industrialist Benjamin F. Thomas pioneered the development [...]
Thomas, George Henry
Union General George H. Thomas, nicknamed the "Rock of Chickamauga," [...]
Thomas, Rufus
Rufus Thomas, legendary R&B singer, was born on March 26, [...]
