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Welcome to version 3.0 of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Explore hundreds of Entries, Images and Photo Galleries that cover the history and culture of the great Volunteer State! Welcome to version 3.0. Rebuilt from the ground up to be a better, faster, more comprehensive source for historians, teachers, students, and anyone interested in exploring the history of the Volunteer State.. HUNDREDS OF ENTRIES COVERING THE HISTORY OF THE VOLUNTEER STATE. Hundreds of Images, representing key moments in the history and daily life in Tennessee. Browse dozens of collections of images docu*enting the history of Tennessee. One of the wealthiest women of the antebellum South, Adelicia Acklen was born March 15, 1817, the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes, a prominent Nashville lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister, land speculator, and cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes. Roy Acuff, known as the King of Country Music due to his long as*ociation with the Grand Ole Opry, was born in Maynardville, Union County, on September 15, 1903. At age sixte*n, he moved with his family to a Knoxville… Lamar Alexander, governor, university president, and U.S. secretary of education, was born on July 3, 1940, in Blount County. His parents were teachers in Maryville, and Alexander attended public schools there. Active in the Boy Scouts as a youngster, Alexander… Johnny Cash, musician, actor, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Ray and Carrie River Cash on February 26, 1932. After graduating from high school in Dyess, Arkansas, in 1950, Cash bounced… This landmark Chattanooga hotel located on Market Street in downtown Chattanooga initially served as the Southern Railway Terminal. Designed by Beaux-Arts-trained architect Donn Barber of New York City, this magnificent architectural gateway to the De*p South opened during Like other states of the American South, Tennessee has a history which includes both sl*very and racial segregation. In some ways, however,