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Cover of Harper's Weekly, showing the bridge-burning conspirators swearing allegiance to the American flag. The East Tennessee bridge burnings were a series of guerrilla operations carried out during the American Civil War by Southern Unionists in Confederate-held East Tennessee in 1861.
To The Moon, the eastern Tennessee regional burn, is held each June on at Catoosa Event Center on the Cumberland Plateau. As an all-ages burn which abides by the Ten Principles, TTM applied for and received sanctioned status by Burning Man in its second year, 2017. The burn has grown from 550 participants in 2016 to just under 1000 in 2018 ...
The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, [12] as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947, which killed 16 people in Maine. [13] [14] In addition, the fires were also the deadliest and most destructive of the 2016 Southeastern United States wildfires.
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The Tennessee Division of Forestry reported 64 fires had burned 17,734 acres. The largest was in Morgan County in the White Oak Circle area covered about 1,900 acres. Another on Neddy Mountain in Cocke County had burned 1,116 acres.
In a "dry County", the sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages is prohibited or restricted – 1 out of Tennessee's 95 counties are completely dry. Moore County is more or less a dry county with an extremely specific carve-out permitting patrons at Jack Daniel's Distillery to sample and buy liquor on the premises.
A firefighter is dead and two others suffered serious injuries fighting a massive blaze int he Southern Tier of New York on Wednesday night. The fire broke in the city of Binghamton in Broome ...
Tennessee c. 1810. The eastern counties shaded in blue, the Mero District in green, and Native American lands in red. The Natchez Trace from its northern terminus to Chickasaw Crossing where it leaves the state is shaded in gray. Jackson became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, the dominant party in Tennessee. [31]