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Shelby Farms is a public park located in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, in East Memphis.It is one of the largest urban parks in the US and the world, at a size of 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) and covers more than five times the area of Central Park in New York City with 843 acres (341 ha).
The park's central feature is 35-acre (140,000 m 2) Travis McNatt Lake. The namesake Big Hill Pond was formed by excavation in 1853 as a borrow pit that was a source for soil used to build a levee across the Tuscumbia and Cypress Creek bottoms for the Memphis and Charleston Railroad .
Tennessee has 59 designated state parks, operated by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The largest park, Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail, is made up of land along the Cumberland Trail, stretching from Cumberland Gap at the Virginia state line to Prentice Cooper State Forest in Marion County, just northwest of Chattanooga. [1]
Big Cypress Tree State Park is a state park in Weakley County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. The park is named after a large and old bald cypress tree that once stood on the park's grounds. The tree was approximately 1,350 years old when it was killed by lightning in 1976.
What’s the big deal about D.C.’s cherry blossom trees? In 1912, Tokyo’s Mayor Yukio Osaki sent trees to Helen Taft, the wife of then-president William Taft as a gift of goodwill from Japan ...
Conservation of the Old Forest began in 1901, when Overton Park was created when the 342 acres (1.38 km 2) Lea Woods was purchased by the City of Memphis. 172 acres (0.70 km 2) of its original climax oak-hickory cover was preserved as the Old Forest. In 1912, the area was described as follows: More than thirty kinds of native timber are found ...
The Cherokee National Forest contains such notable sites as the Ocoee River (site of the 1996 Olympic whitewater events); 150 miles (240 km) of the Appalachian Trail; Citico Creek Wilderness; Big Frog Mountain within Big Frog Wilderness, and surrounds both the Tennessee Valley Authority Watauga Reservoir and Wilbur Reservoir.
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