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Tennessee is located in the East South Central region of the United States, lying between the Mississippi River on the west and the backbone of the Blue Ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains on the east. Tennessee is considered one of the border states between the North and the South. The east, with its rugged terrain covered with dense forest and brush, was settled mainly by independent yeoman farmers. It remained largely isolated from the outside world until the early 20th century. In contrast, the west, where cotton plantations once flourished, was linked with other regions through the Mississippi River.

Tennessee is now predominantly industrial; the majority of its population lives in urban areas. Among the most important products are chemicals, textiles, apparel, electrical machinery, furniture, and leather goods. Other lines include food processing, lumber, primary metals, and metal products. Tennessee is a leading tobacco-producing state. Other farming income is derived from livestock and dairy products, as well as greenhouse and nursery products and cotton. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of Tennessee at 6,038,959.

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Bartlett

Cindi Baker

E-mail: mymom4u@aol.com

Brentwood click here

With the construction of the Interstate in the 1960’s Brentwood grew and prospered and by the 1990’s the area was again one of the richest in the state.

Center Hill Lake

Ron Sifford

Web Site

Chattanooga click here

Chattanooga is located in southeastern Tennessee, on the Tennessee River, near the Georgia border. Bridges span the river to link the two sections of the city, which is a services, financial, retail, and distribution center. Manufactures include textiles, primary and fabricated metal, chemicals, and food products; tourism is of growing importance to the economy.

Clarksville click here

Clarksville is located in northern Tennessee, at the junction of the Cumberland and Red rivers. The city is an important market in a tobacco and livestock-raising region; its many manufactures include home appliances, zinc, chemicals, tobacco products, clothing, lumber, and printed materials.

Dandridge

Eric McDonald

Dandridge Real Estate

Fort Campbell

Royce Hancock

E-mail: ohara23@midwest.net

Greeneville

Roy Roderick or Ralph Roderick

E-mail: rrrealty@greene.xtn.net

Jefferson City

Dean Ishmael

Jefferson City Real Estate

Johnson City click here

Johnson City is located in northeastern Tennessee. It is a distribution center for agricultural and manufactured goods. Its diverse manufacturing base includes firms producing metal products, electronic components, building materials, clothing, and textiles.

Knoxville click here

Knoxville is located in eastern Tennessee, on the Tennessee River, in a broad valley that lies between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Cumberland Mountains. Knoxville is the commercial center of an area in which limestone, marble, livestock, and zinc are produced.

Lawrenceburg

Bobby Gobble

E-mail: BobbyGob@worldnet.att.net

Loudon

Jan Tucker, ABR, e-PRO
ERA Lakeside Realty
Phone: 800-745-8448
E-mail: Jan.Tucker@ERA.com
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Licensed Broker. Specializing in all your Real Estate needs in Tellico Village. Buyer's Agent, Seller's Agent.

Memphis click here

Memphis is located on the Chickasaw Bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. Memphis is a major transportation hub. Memphis International Airport houses the corporate headquarters of overnight shipping company FedEx.

Mountain City

Peggy Bonifacino

Web Site

Murfreesboro

Anita Prevatte

E-mail: PREVATTE@mtrmls.com

Nashville click here

Nashville is located in north central Tennessee, on the Cumberland River. It is known as "Music City, USA", and it lies in the Nashville Basin, a gently rolling and low-lying area surrounded by the western and eastern Highland Rim. The Cumberland Mountains rise to the east.

Nolensville

Jill Shelby

Nolensville Real Estate

Pigeon Forge

Annie Maloney
Century 21 MVP
Phone: 865-719-2755

Pigeon Forge Real Estate
Tennessee real estate in the areas of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Maryville, and Knoxville Tennessee(TN).

Smithville click here

Smithville, Tennessee, the county seat of DeKalb County, is world renowned for its annual Fiddlers' Jamboree and Craft Festival, held on the first weekend in July. DeKalb County is the home of Center Hill Lake, a 64 mile long reservoir with 415 miles of largely undeveloped shoreline and 18,200 acres of deep, pure water.

Tellico Plains

Mike Hannan

E-mail: hannans@tellico.net

Web Site

Tellico Village

Tullahoma click here

Tullahoma is located in Coffee County, between Shelbyville and Winchester, near Normandy Lake. Tullahoma is home to Arnold Air Force Base which was dedicated and opened in 1951 by President Harry Truman.

The state’s largest farms are in western Tennessee, where cotton has historically been the leading crop. Cotton is supplemented, or in some sections supplanted, by corn, soybeans, vegetables, strawberries, and tobacco. Eastward in the Nashville Basin, livestock predominate. Cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, and poultry are raised there. On some farms, dairying is the chief source of income. Corn, hay, and other crops are grown mainly to feed the livestock, not for cash. However, in the Nashville Basin and on the Highland Rim, tobacco is an important crop.

Farm yields are generally lower in the Cumberland Plateau, where poor eroded soils, steep slopes, and lack of machinery and transportation have hampered agricultural development. Livestock raising (including dairying), and the cultivation of fruit, vegetables, and tobacco are carried on. Conditions improve in the Ridge and Valley province to the east, where farmers engage in tobacco cultivation and livestock raising.

Crops occupy 59 percent of the farmland, and they account for 49 percent of the income generated on farms. The sales of livestock and animal products generate the remainder of farm income.

Tennessee had a well-diversified crop base in the late 1990s, with income coming from cotton (including cotton lint and seed), soybeans, tobacco, corn, and nursery items. The state usually ranks among the leading states in tobacco production. In addition, wheat, greenhouse products, and vegetables such as tomatoes and snap beans are raised.

The sale of cattle and calves was the leading source of farm income in 1997, generating one-fifth of all sales. Other major sources of income include broilers (young chickens), eggs, dairy products, and hogs. Horses are also raised. The central part of the Nashville Basin is noted for its horse farms, where the famous Tennessee Walking Horse, which has a distinctively smooth gait, is raised.

The principal nonfuel minerals produced in Tennessee are crushed stone, zinc, cement, sand and gravel, and clay. Bituminous coalfields underlie 13,000 sq km (5,000 sq mi) of the state in the Cumberland Plateau, and Tennessee derives a significant portion of its total mining income from this fuel. Stone, primarily limestone, marble, and sandstone, is produced in numerous counties in central and eastern Tennessee. Tennessee ranks among the leading states in the quarrying of marble. The state leads the country in the production of natural gemstones and ball clay (a clay with a high content of organic material). It is second in zinc production, behind only Alaska. Zinc is mined chiefly in eastern Tennessee, but in 1969 a major zinc deposit was discovered in the central part of the state. Other minerals produced in the state in the late 1990s include petroleum, barite, lead, and lime.

The production of motor vehicles and parts constitutes Tennessee’s largest industry in terms of contribution to the overall state economy. Transportation goods manufactured in the state also include aircraft parts and boats. Other leading industries include those producing chemical products such as organic and inorganic compounds used in industry, synthetic fibers, pharmaceuticals, and explosives; food products, particularly milled grains, baked goods, confections, and beverages; machinery such as refrigeration and heating equipment, metalworking machines, and construction equipment; rubber and synthetic compounds, especially tires and miscellaneous plastics; and fabricated metal products such as structural metal pieces, steel pipe, and aluminum sheets. Other important industries are printing and publishing, electronics, lumber and paper mills, apparel manufactures, and firms engaged in producing surgical appliances and supplies.

Manufacturing of durable goods such as automobiles and metal products has been growing quickly in Tennessee. Many industries have been attracted to the state by the relatively low cost of labor, power, and raw materials, by the number of waterfront sites on navigable rivers and lakes, and by Tennessee’s central location in relation to markets. The eastern part of the state is the most highly industrialized area as a whole, although Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, are the state’s main industrial centers.

Most of Tennessee is served by the TVA power system, which sends electricity either directly to industries or through municipalities or cooperatives. Some 8 percent of the state’s electricity is generated at hydroelectric power plants, while 62 percent of it is produced at huge thermal plants fueled by coal. The TVA constructed the first commercial nuclear power plant in Tennessee at Chickamauga Lake. The state now has 3 such plants, generating 29 percent of the state’s electricity.

The Nashville metropolitan area emerged in 1994 as the most populous area in the state, and by 2000 the population had grown to 1,231,311. The Memphis metropolitan area, which extends into Arkansas and Mississippi, had 1,135,614 people in 2000. The city of Memphis proper, however, is the larger, with 650,100 people in 2000, while Nashville had 569,891. East Tennessee has three significant urban concentrations, led by Knoxville (687,249 in the metropolitan area), the Johnson City—Kingsport—Bristol (Tri-Cities) region in the northeast (480,091 in the metropolitan area), and Chattanooga (465,161 in the metropolitan area).

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