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• Statehood: 1796
• US territory status: 1790, known as the Territory of the US South of the River Ohio (the Southwest Territory). Previously part of North Carolina.
• First extant federal census: 1830
• Statewide birth and death records begin: 1908, but death certificates didn’t give parents’ names or birth date/place until 1914. No statewide records for 1913.
More Civil War battles were fought in Tennessee than in any other state besides Virginia. You can see those battlegrounds at the National Park Service-designated Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park near the Tennessee-Georgia border (706-866-9241, <www.nps.gov/chch>), Fort Donelson National Battlefield in Dover (931-232-5706, <www.nps.gov/ fodo>), Shiloh National Military Park in Shiloh (731-689-5696, <www.nps.gov/ shil>) and Stones River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro (615-893 9501, <www.nps.gov/ stri>).
During the Battle of Nashville, Union and Confederate soldiers skirmished in the front yard of this 1853 mansion. Tour the house and the surrounding historical buildings.
Get the scoop on country music’s roots. The museum’s permanent exhibit, Sing Me Back Home, retraces the genre’s 19th-century origins through photos and musical artifacts.
This fantastic research facility hosts the Knox County Archives, Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection and the new East Tennessee Historical Society Museum.
Inside this beautiful park, you can visit the Mountain Farm Museum, a collection of 1800s farm buildings; the 1886 Mingus Mill; and the picturesque Cataloochee Valley.
• Statehood: 1796
• Statehood: 1796
