East Tennessee love

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  • proper noun East Tennessee is a geographical and political region in the Eastern third section of Tennessee (United States). It includes the cities of Knoxville and Chatanooga, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Examples

  • Superdrag, "Industry Giants" -- Sure, the guys live in Nashville now, but they called East Tennessee home first.

    The Daily Times News Headlines 2009

  • A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it was a strange place called East Tennessee, I worked for a newspaper.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Lisa B. 2006

  • A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it was a strange place called East Tennessee, I worked for a newspaper.

    It was a dark and stormy night ... Lisa B. 2006

  • Though she had been a member of the Confederacy near a year, still the half civilized and mountainous portions of her territory, known as East Tennessee, had done little but annoy the army near it, by petty hostilities and even by a concerted plan for burning all the railroad bridges in that section and thus crippling communications.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • This conference was first called the East Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina Conference, but has had for many years the shorter name.

    Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix James Walker 1914

  • The East Tennessee was the best of these minor lines, and in 1877 it began to acquire others extending through the South.

    The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states John Moody 1913

  • At the same time that the Richmond and Danville was linking up the commercial centers of the southern Atlantic seaboard, another system -- known as the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia -- was being built up in the Appalachian Mountains to the west.

    The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states John Moody 1913

  • In this community, in the edge of what is known as East Tennessee, the memory of Andrew Jackson is held in deepest reverence.

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • In studying this sublime history of a mighty sea, walled in on every hand, receiving great tributary streams through Cumberland and other Gaps, overspreading the district known as East Tennessee, and discharging its superabundant floods, in the olden eternity of the past, through Sequatchie Valley, she will confess the keenest and most intelligent interest.

    Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881

  • (AP) -- Alcoa Inc. has expanded its aluminum can recycling operation in East Tennessee, which is already one of the nation's largest recycling plants.

    WVLT - Home - Headlines 2010

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