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The Three Rivers Rambler is an excursion train in Knoxville, Tennessee along the Tennessee River. The train is operated by the Knoxville and Holston River Railroad , a subsidiary of Gulf and Ohio Railways .
Grave of Reverend J. G. M. Ramsey.. The Lebanon In The Fork Presbyterian Church was founded during 1791 by the Rev. Samuel Carrick. Francis Alexander Ramsey, father of J. G. M. Ramsey, later donated nine acres of land overlooking the wide confluence of the Holston River with the French Broad River, where the "fork" and beginning of the Tennessee River is formed.
The Knoxville and Holston River Railroad (reporting mark KXHR) operates over 18.98 miles (30.55 km) within Knoxville and Marbledale, Tennessee. This short line railroad was created in 1998 and is currently owned by Gulf and Ohio Railways. [1] The railroad also hosts a tourist train run by Gulf & Ohio Railways, the Three Rivers Rambler. [2]
Daniel Dassow, Knoxville News Sentinel September 29, 2024 at 3:05 PM TVA spilled record amounts of water through Douglas Dam in Sevier County, causing minor flooding on the French Broad River in ...
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. It is the largest tributary of the Ohio, [5] and drains a basin of 40,876 sq mi (105,870 km 2).
[3] [4] Per the recommendations of this task force, a three-phase project to develop Volunteer Landing began in 1995 and continued through 1996. [3] [4] Volunteer Landing was completed in September 1997. [5] Upon this completion, Volunteer Landing had a boardwalk, a central pavilion and plaza, a pedestrian bridge, and two new public parks. [5]
The state is drained by three major rivers, the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi. The Tennessee River begins at the juncture of the Holston and French Broad rivers in Knoxville, flows southwest to Chattanooga, and exits into Alabama before reemerging in the western part of the state and flowing north into Kentucky. [38]
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