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Davy Crockett was not born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, as the song says. He was born on the banks of Limestone Creek near Greeneville, where a replica of the Crockett's log cabin stands today. |
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When Tennessee became a state in 1796, the total population was 77,000. |
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Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union during the Civil War and the first state to be readmitted after the war. |
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