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Jefferson County Claims to Fame
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 Artifact
in the Smithsonian Institution
Idol from Strawberry Plains, Tennessee
"One of the most valuable objects in the Museum is a stone image, 20 inches
long, weighing 37 pounds 4 ounces, discovered in a cave near Strawberry Plains, 16 miles east
of Knoxville, Tennessee. This relic consists of crystallinc limestone, the fracture of which can be
seen at the back of the head where the figure seems to have been detached from the rock out of
which it was sculptured. This is undoubtedly among the best sculptures
thus far discovered in the United States, and compares favorably with kindred
sculptures of Mexico or Central
America."
Terminus
of the Great Warrior Path
Site
of the Treaty of Dumplin in 1785
Davy
Crockett and Polly Findley/Finley were married in Jefferson County
in 1806
Dandridge,
Tennessee's second-oldest town
Samuel
McSpadden, powder maker who produced and transported gunpowder to
Andrew Jackson in New Orleans and helped secure victory in the Battle
of New Orleans in 1814
First
branch of the Tennessee Manumission Society formed at Lost Creek
Friend's Meeting House, 1815
Site
of important Civil War battles and activity during Longstreet's
Knoxville campaign
Home
of John Roper Branner, president of the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia Railroad
Home
of Lawson D. Franklin, Tennessee's first millionaire
Birthplace
of renowned geologist John Casper Branner, long-time faculty member
and second president (1913-1915) of Stanford University (California)
Residence
of Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of Little Lord Fauntleroy, The
Secret Garden, and other Victorian novels
New
Market Train Wreck, 1904
Site
of Bush Brothers Cannery, home of "Bush's Best Baked Beans" and Duke
Residence
of award-winning educator and Fulbright Scholar Louise McBee,
Ph.D.
Home
of beloved journalist Bert Vincent, a member of the Tennessee Newspaper
Hall of Fame
Site
of two Tennessee Valley Authority dams
Hometown
of Mark Dean, IBM Fellow and Member of the Inventor's Hall of Fame,
without whose work you would not be reading this!
Hometown
of Carolyn Peck, head coach of Women's Basketball at the University
of Florida, Gainesville; former coach of the WNBA Orlando Miracle
women's basketball team; coached Purdue University women to NCAA
championship and named "Coach of the Year" in 1999; ESPN
on-air commentator
Hometown
of Joe Shands, award-winning advertising producer, director, and
copywriter who worked on such projects as "Got Milk?"
Location
of Lucas Francis Studio, which produces special effects and proprs
for movies and television, including the film Terminator 2:
Judgement Day.
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