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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Coca-Cola was first bottle in 1899 at a plant on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee after two local attorneys purchased the bottling rights to the drink for $l.00.
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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.