Unique town names in Tennessee
From Memphis to Johnson City there is no shortage of bizarrely named Tennessee towns.
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From Memphis to Johnson City there is no shortage of bizarrely named Tennessee towns.
The Ducktown Basin used to be known as “Tennessee’s Badlands.” But unlike the Badlands of South Dakota, Tennessee’s version was man-made.
The Ducktown Basin used to be known as “Tennessee’s Badlands.” But unlike the Badlands of South Dakota, Tennessee’s version was man-made.
In the 1960s, the Apollo astronauts used three man-made marks on the planet to navigate from space . . . the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Egypt, and the Copper Basin in Tennessee/Georgia. According to the TVA, that was even after 30 years of replanting trees in the basin in an attempt to reclaim the land.