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Southern Airways began service to Jackson TN on November 1, 1960 with 4 daily departures (2 to Memphis & 2 to Nashville), using DC-3 equipment. [8] In the early 1960s, they upgraded 2 of the flights to larger Martin 404 planes. [9] By the early 1970s, Southern was using DC-9 jet service on some flights.
US 45E is a 61.23-mile-long (98.54 km) state highway in West Tennessee, connecting Jackson with South Fulton via Medina, Milan, Bradford, Greenfield, Sharon, and Martin. For the majority of its length, it is concurrent with unsigned State Route 43 (SR 43) for most of the route's length except for short segments at Martin and South Fulton, where ...
Martin is named for Captain William Martin. [5] William Martin was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1806, and moved to Weakley County, Tennessee with his wife Sarah in 1832. [ 5 ] Captain Martin prospered through tobacco farming and began working to establish a railroad connection in what would later become Martin in 1852. [ 5 ]
A bird's eye view of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee 1870. This area was occupied by the historic Chickasaw people at the time of European encounter. They were pushed out by European-American settlers under various treaties with the United States, in actions authorized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and ratified by the US Senate.
The segment between the western terminus and I-55 is a north–south route, and the segment between I-55 and the eastern terminus runs east to west. Throughout its length, I-240 is designated as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway, the W.B. Fowler Sr. Expressway, and the Avron B. Fogelman Expressway.
The 21.5-mile (34.6 km) section linking US 70 east of Brownsville and US 70 in Jackson, known at the time as the Jackson Bypass, was opened to traffic on December 1, 1961. [102] The following day, the 31-mile (50 km) segment opened between the Clinch River bridge in Kingston and Papermill Road in Knoxville.
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The University of Tennessee at Martin (UT Martin or UTM) is a public university in Martin, Tennessee. It is one of the five campuses of the University of Tennessee system. UTM is the only public university in West Tennessee outside of Memphis. UTM operates a large experimental farm and several satellite centers in West Tennessee.