Franklin Roosevelt has for years been given credit for shepherding the nation through the Great Depression. For decades, FDR’s New Deal policies were believed by many economists to have prevented a total collapse of the United States economy until the markets and industry could recover as they geared up production to supply the US and ...
The greater Knoxville area has many activities and attractions in the summer for resident and tourist alike, but you sun n’ fun types, nothin’ beats a good, sunny day fishing on one of our many bodies of water. Whether on a man-made pond or one of the TVA lakes created by their eponymous dams, Knox ...
Tennessee State Parks offer a range of budget-friendly cabin rentals, “fully-equipped to set up housekeeping.” Stone and wood Civilian Conservation Corps (“CCC”) cabins, wooden cottages or deluxe villas include kitchens or kitchenettes, porches, baths and showers, linens, fireplaces, picnic tables, and outside grills. Most have TV and fireplaces, some have AC, phones and rocking chairs ...
For the past ten years, Bristol Motor Speedway’s “Speedway in Lights Powered by TVA” has given the tri-city area the most spectacular holiday light show the region has ever seen and this year will be no exception. Speedway in Lights Powered by TVA will open on November 16 in Bristol, Tennessee at the Bristol Motor ...
Knoxville, Tennessee is on the eastern side of the state, about 40 miles north of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In the late 1800’s, Knoxville became an become an outpost onto the Tennessee River and a gateway to the west. During the Civil War, Knoxville was occupied by both Union and Confederate forces. During ...
