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The original Tennessee state route shield from 1923 to 1983. Governor Austin Peay, who was elected in 1922, made road-building a central issue of his campaign. At the time, Tennessee was known as a "detour state", with many of its roads in poor condition compared to those of neighboring states. [6]
October 15, 1966. The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains . The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County in Tennessee ...
proposed. SR 473. 0.2. 0.32. Virginiastate line. US 421/SR 34in Bristol. 02008-01-012008. 02011-01-012011. Former portion of SR 34; decommissioned when US 421 was rerouted off of this road; now MLK Jr Boulevard; still on official maps through 2017, but off functional maps by 2014.
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. / 36.85694°N 88.07472°W / 36.85694; -88.07472. Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Tennessee has 58 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]
The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to north Alabama and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The border of the valley is known as the Tennessee Valley Divide.
State. The Great Smoky Mountains Parkway is a highway that travels 23.4 miles (37.7 km) between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Interstate 40 (I-40) in Kodak, Tennessee, in East Tennessee. It serves as the main thoroughfare for Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville, and includes a 4.3-mile (6.9 km) spur of the Foothills Parkway.