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Easy to locate information on sign companies in Chattanooga, Clarksville, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee
General information
It was the advent of the Grand Ole Opry in 1925, combined with an already thriving
publishing industry, that positioned Nashville, to become, "Music City USA".
Memphis
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Memphis Minnie,
B.B. King, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon and other blues and jazz legends played on Beale
Street in Memphis, and helped develop the style known as "Memphis Blues". Today, the blues
clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis.
Graceland, is the name of the 13.8 acre estate and large white-columned mansion that once
belonged to Elvis Presley, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis. It is one of
the most visited houses in the United States (second only to the White House) and is very noticable by the sign on the gate.. Also
commemorating the city's musical heritage, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music is home to
a broad collection of artifacts. Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also
spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic.
Cumberland Gap is located just north of the spot where the current-day states of Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Virginia meet. Famous in American history for its role as the chief
passageway through the central Appalachians, it was an important part of the Wilderness
Road, an old Indian path which Daniel Boone widened with 35 axmen, thus opening up the
western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee for pioneer settlement.
Watch for the "Trail of Tears" signs starting in Charleston, Tennessee through Nashville,
Tennessee and into Kentucky.
During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority was founded and headquartered in
Knoxville by the U.S. government to help create jobs and attract manufacturing dependent on
cheap electricity. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the act creating the TVA on
May 18, 1933. Norris Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) hydroelectric and flood
control structure located on the Clinch River in East Tennessee. It was the first dam
constructed by TVA.
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