Where did the state of Tennessee get its name?
http://tn.gov/tsla/history/history_faqs.htm#01 The following is from Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4, Winter 1971, pg. 344: The origin of the name “Tennessee” is associated with the Overhill Cherokee town of Tanase (in what is now Monroe County) and the Tanase River (the Little Tennessee), in southeastern Tennessee. The Cherokee word, of uncertain meaning, has been given the fanciful derivations of “winding river” and “river of the great bend”. The modern spelling of “Tennessee” was noted as early as 1754 and was applied by 1793 to that section of transmontane North Carolina then known as the Territory of the United States of America South of the River Ohio. The third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee, created in 1788 by the State of North Carolina, was called “Tennessee County”. Its life span was eight years. When a constitutional convention met in Knoxville on January 11,
http://tn.gov/tsla/history/history_faqs.htm#01 The following is from Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4, Winter 1971, pg. 344: The origin of the name “Tennessee” is associated with the Overhill Cherokee town of Tanase (in what is now Monroe County) and the Tanase River (the Little Tennessee), in southeastern Tennessee. The Cherokee word, of uncertain meaning, has been given the fanciful derivations of “winding river” and “river of the great bend”. The modern spelling of “Tennessee” was noted as early as 1754 and was applied by 1793 to that section of transmontane North Carolina then known as the Territory of the United States of America South of the River Ohio. The third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee, created in 1788 by the State of North Carolina, was called “Tennessee County”. Its life span was eight years. When a constitutional convention met in Knoxville on January 11,
