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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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Actress-singer Polly Bergen, from Knoxville, Tennessee is the first woman to serve on the Board of Directors of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. |
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Dolly Parton is a native of Sevierville, Tennessee. A major highway, the Dolly Parton Parkway, takes visitors traveling to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. |
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