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Let’s start with the name Tennessee itself. There is debate about where the name comes from. Many experts say it comes from a Southeastern Indian word, Tanasi. Tanasi was a village in eastern Tennessee. Tennessee became the 16 th state in American history in 1796. Before becoming a state, the American government called the land the Territory ...
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The town was on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River) and appears on maps as early as 1725. It is not known whether this was the same town as the one Juan Pardo encountered, but recent research suggests that the "Tanasqui" Pardo recorded was at the confluence of the Pigeon River and the French Broad River , near modern Newport, Tennessee .
Nov 1, 2023 · — The state of Tennessee is named after the Cherokee town of Tanasi, which sat in current day Vonore. “In the 1720s, Moytoy was elected to be the emperor of the Cherokee.
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The name "Tennessee" evolved from Creek and Cherokee words (many state names originate from Native American languages). All State Name Origins Exact details for the origin of "Tennessee" have been lost over time, but Spanish explorer Captain Juan Pardo was the first to record the name in 1567; at some point he and his soldiers encountered a Native American village called "Tanasqui" in Cherokee ...
Mar 1, 2024 · How Pigeon Forge got the rest of its name . One of the early settlers of Pigeon Forge’s children built an iron forge on the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River that would inspire the second half of the town’s name on land near the mill in the early 1800s. A forge, for the uninitiated, is a type of hearth used for heating metals. The ...
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Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
