Tennessee is a state located in the southern United States with a population of over 6 million people. Its capital and second largest city is Nashville, while Memphis is the largest city. Some of Tennessee's state symbols include the iris flower, tulip poplar tree, passion flower wildflower, and Tennessee river pearls. The state insects are the firefly and ladybug, while the mockingbird is the state bird and raccoon the state animal. Famous Tennesseans include singer Tina Turner who was born in 1939 and actor Morgan Freeman who was born in 1937 in Memphis and later began his acting career after leaving the air force.
2. TENNESSIEE´S HISTORY:
• Tennessee is a state of the southern
United States. It has a population of
6,214,888 inhabitants.
• The capital of Tennessee and the
second largest in the state is Nashville,
which has a population of 626.144.
Memphis is the largest city with a
population of 670.902 inhabitants.
3. *THE FLOWER:
Symbols:
The iris is the state cultivated flower. While
there are several different colors among the
iris, the purple iris is commonly accepted as
the state flower. →
*THE TREE: The tulip poplar is the state
tree. The tulip poplar was chosen because it
was used extensively by the Tennessee
pioneers to construct their houses, barns and
other buildings. →
*THE WILDFLOWER: The passion flower is
the state wildflower. It received its name
from early Christian missionaries to South
America.→
*THE GEM: Tennessee river pearls are
taken from mussels in the fresh water rivers
and come in various shapes and colors.→
4. MORE SyMBOLS:
*THE INSECTS:
Tennessee has two official state insects: the
firefly and the ladybug. The firefly emits a
luminescent light easily seen on summer
evenings.→
*THE BIRD: The mockingbird was selected
as the state bird in 1933. One of the finest singers
among North American birds.→
*THE ANIMAL: The raccoon is a furry
mammal with a bushy, ringed tail and a mask-like
band of black hair around its eyes. Raccoons eat
fish and frogs that they catch in rivers and
streams→
5. Famous people:
•BIOGRAPHY OF TINA TURNER:
- In 1939 Tina Turner and Anna Mae
Bullock was born. She is a Grammy
Award-winning American pop/rock
singer.
Anna Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) was
abandoned by their father, and
temporarily by their mother. Tina
Turner gave her stage name of Tina
Turner because in 1962 she married
to Ike Turner.→
•BIOGRAPHY OF MORGAN FREEMAN:
- Morgan Freeman was born in 1937,
in Memphis, Tennessee. Although he
loved acting, Freeman joined the air
force after high school to become a
fighter pilot. He later realized it wasn't
what he'd wanted, and began his
acting career. →
6.
7. OTHER FAMOUS*Red Grooms artist, PEOPLE:
*James Agee writer, poet, Knoxville
Nashville
*Eddy Arnold singer, Henderson
*Chet Atkins guitarist, Lutrell *Estes Kefauver legislator,
*Sam Davis confederate scout, Madisonville
Smyrna *Sandra Locke actress,
Shelbyville
*Mark Dean inventor, Jefferson City *Dolly Parton singer,
*David G. Farragut first American Sevierville
admiral, Knoxville *Minnie Pearl singer,
comedienne, Centerville
*Lester Flatt bluegrass musician,
Overton Cty *Cybil Shepherd actress,
*Ernie Ford singer, Bristol Memphis
*Dinah Shore actress,
*Morgan Freeman actor, Memphis singer, Winchester
*Aretha Franklin singer, Memphis *Tina Turner singer,
