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Duck River Named One of the Most Endangered Rivers in America
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The Duck was named one of the most endangered rivers in America By American Rivers.
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The Duck was named one of the most endangered rivers in America By American Rivers.
Just for fun, Ridley Wills II has listed 10 ways Nashville has dramatically changed in the last decade. See if you agree with his choices.
In 1897, Arthur W. Barnard hauled his 46-foot-long flying machine to the top of the hill on the west side of the Centennial grounds.
Early in 1916, Cumberland University leadership decided that their failing football team should be shut down to help relieve the school’s mounting financial woes, but they had one more game to play.
Soon thereafter, Mamie chose to move to Shelbyville where she spent the remainder of her life living in the Dixie Hotel on the public square.
Major Lon MacFarland, of Columbia, Tenn., was a native Tennessean whose ancestor arrived at Fort Nashboro by boat in 1780.
Bill wrote his brother urging him to introduce legislation in Congress to grant Mrs. Polk a pension as a widow of a president of the United States.
Ridley takes us on a flight around the world with Smiling Jack Harding.
The Downtown Presbyterian Church Waffle Shop fundraiser will take place on Thursday, Dec. 7, from 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
The answer involves a championship trotter and several landowners.