Cotton made Memphis, Tennessee a major port on the Mississippi River. The Memphis Cotton Exchange still handles approximately one-third of the entire American cotton crop each year.
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Grinders Switch, entertainer Minnie Pearl's fictitious hometown, is now an entertainment complex in her real hometown of Centerville, Tennessee.
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The world's largest artificial skiing surface is located at the Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. There a 5-acre artificial ski surface permits skiing in any type of weather.