The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States. The park was named for the smoke-like bluish haze that often envelops these fabled mountains.
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The Watauga Association at Sycamore Shoals near Elizabethton, Tennessee drafted the first constitution ever written by white men in America in 1772. It was patterned after the constitution of the Iroquois League of Nations, a federal system of government.
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Robert R. Church, Sr. of Memphis, Tennessee is purported to be the South's first African-American millionaire.