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the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes, a prominent Nashville lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister, land speculator, and cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes.</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-2 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/roy-c-acuff/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-roy-acuff.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Roy C. Acuff</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>Roy Acuff, known as the "King of Country Music" due to his long association with the Grand Ole Opry, was born in Maynardville, Union County, on September 15, 1903. At age sixteen, he moved with his family to a Knoxville…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-3 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/lamar-alexander/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-lamar-alexander.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Lamar Alexander</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>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…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-4 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/johnny-cash/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-johnny-cash.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Johnny Cash</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>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…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-5 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/chattanooga-choo-choo-hotel/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-chattagnooga-choo-choo.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>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 Deep South opened during the Christmas…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-6 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/civil-rights-movement/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/tn-hz-preview-civil-rights-movement.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Civil Rights Movement</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>Like other states of the American South, Tennessee has a history which includes both slavery and racial segregation. In some ways, however, the history of the relationship between the races in the Volunteer State more closely resembles that of a…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-7 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/civil-war/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/tn-hz-preview-fort-donelson.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Civil War</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>In 1861, as the nation divided, so did Tennessee. In the state's three grand divisions, Confederates and Unionists fought their own political war to determine which way Tennessee would go as the Confederate States of America took form in neighboring…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-8 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/davy-crockett/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-davy-crockett.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>David "Davy" Crockett</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>David Crockett, frontiersman, Tennessee legislator and U.S. congressman, folk hero, and icon of popular culture, was an intriguing composite of history and myth. Both the historical figure who died at the Alamo and the legendary hero kept alive in the…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-9 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/john-bartlett-dennis/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-john-b-dennis.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>John Bartlett Dennis</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>John B. Dennis, financier and creator of modern Kingsport, was born in Gardiner, Maine, the eldest son of David and Julia Bartlett Dennis. His father was a prominent businessman and president of the Merchants National Bank of Gardiner, and Dennis…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-10 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/yolande-cornelia-giovanni/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-nikki-giovanni.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>Writer Nikki Giovanni expresses her version of the late twentieth-century African American experience through poetry and essays. Though her parents left Knoxville after her birth, Giovanni returned for summers with her grandparents and graduated from Knoxville's Austin High School before…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-11 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/national-campground/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-national-campground.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>National Campground</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>The National Campground, located in rural Loudon County, has held religious camp meetings since the late Reconstruction era. In 1873 individuals from congregations representing the Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Friends (Quakers), and the Methodist Episcopal Church…</p></article></a></div><div class="ecms-card ecms-card-count-12 ecms-card--featured"><a class="ecms-card--link" href="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/port-royal-state-historic-area/" title="Read the full entry."><figure class="ecms-card--figure" style="background-image: url(https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tn-hz-preview-port-royal.jpg);"></figure><header class="ecms-card--article-header"><h2>Port Royal State Historic Area</h2></header><article class="ecms-card--article-body"><p>The thirty-four-acre site of Port Royal in Montgomery County preserves one of Middle Tennessee's earliest settlement areas. The first permanent settlers arrived in 1784, and the first meeting of the Tennessee County Court, North Carolina, was held nearby in 1788.…</p></article></a></div></section> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div> <div class="at-below-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/port-royal-state-historic-area/"></div> </div> </div> </section> </div>  </main>  <div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/port-royal-state-historic-area/"></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-5 fusion-parallax-fixed tn-footer-block tn-footer-block-top nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-image: url("/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tn-intro-bg-section-whiskey-barrels.jpg");background-position: center center;background-repeat: 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