Commonly used whiskeys include rye ( the traditional choice ), Canadian whisky ( simply called Rye in Canada ), bourbon, blended whiskey and Tennessee whiskey.

Another important labelling in the marketplace is Tennessee whiskey, of which Jack Daniel's, George Dickel, Collier and McKeel, and Benjamin Prichard's are the only brands currently bottled.

Whiskey sold as " Tennessee whiskey " is defined as Bourbon under NAFTA and at least one other international trade agreement, and is similarly required to meet the legal definition of Bourbon under Canadian law.

Whiskey sold as Tennessee whiskey is also defined as bourbon under NAFTA and at least one other international trade agreement, and is required to meet the legal definition of bourbon under Canadian law, but some Tennessee whiskey makers do not label their product as bourbon and insist that it is a different type of whiskey when marketing their product.

But the methods for producing Tennessee whiskey fit the characteristics of bourbon production, and " Tennessee whiskey " is legally defined under the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and some other laws ( such as the law of Canada ) as the recognized name for a straight bourbon whiskey produced in Tennessee.

Some Tennessee whiskey producers point to their use of the Lincoln County Process, a charcoal-filtering process, to draw a distinction between Tennessee whiskey and bourbon.

But many bourbons are charcoal-filtered ( for example, Ezra Brooks Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey and Old Heaven Hill ), and not all Tennessee whiskey producers use the Lincoln County process ( for example, Benjamin Prichard's Tennessee Whiskey ).

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is the center of this area.

Another scenic spot in Tennessee is Chattanooga where the Rock City Gardens are not to be missed.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

South of these highlands, occupying a narrow strip on each side of the Tennessee River, is a country of gentle rolling lowlands varying in elevation from.

The Cumberland Plateau region is drained to the west-northwest by the Tennessee River and its tributaries ; all other parts of the state are drained to the southwest.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

* 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States ; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.

The major isotope of berkelium, berkelium-249, is synthesized in minute quantities in dedicated high-flux nuclear reactors, mainly at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.

In the polity of the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), the international leader is the Presiding Bishop, and the members of the Executive Committee are Executive Bishops.

The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

This story is reported by Dunn ( 1907: 16-17 ) as being told in 1901 by a man who heard this story from a Hoosier family member while traveling in southern Tennessee.

* 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

* 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

* 1847 – Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.

In 1803, most of Polk's relatives moved to the Duck River area in what is now Maury County, Middle Tennessee ; Polk's family waited until 1806 to follow.

The house where Polk spent his adult life before his presidency, in Columbia, Tennessee, is his only private residence still standing.

As settlers began pouring into the Tennessee region, they found the Tennessee River to be an excellent source of food, water, and a way of shipping goods to the big cities.

The Emory River, its source near the summit of Bird, flows westwardly along the mountain's northern base, passing just north of Wartburg, and turning south before dropping off the plateau and emptying into the Watts Bar Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River.

Historians Bruce Catton and Glenn Tucker make firm assertions that a sharpshooter was responsible ; Stephen Sears credits volley fire from the 7th Tennessee against the 2nd Wisconsin ; Edwin Coddington cites the sister's letter and finds the sharpshooter theory to be partly credible, but leans towards Sears ' conclusion ; Harry W. Pfanz agrees that the location was behind the 2nd Wisconsin, but make no judgment about the source of the fire.

Mussel shoals in the upper Tennessee River valley, mainly above Knoxville, constitute the only important source of freshwater pearls in the United States.

Near downtown McMinnville is a dam formerly utilized by the city as an electric power source ; it was supplanted by the Tennessee Valley Authority system, as the small amount ( by modern standards ) of electricity it was capable of producing makes it impracticable to man and maintain by modern standards.

The first point is that Tennessee governmental services are as a whole inadequate, in large part due to an inadequate tax base and the heavy dependence on one revenue source.

In turn, some of the material from that source is derived from the book Tennessee Senators as Seen by One of Their Successors by Senator Kenneth McKellar.

At the trail's northern end, hikers reach Lookoff Mountain and enjoy views of scenic Wolffork Valley, the source of the Little Tennessee River.

It is likely that the Biographical Directory is the correct source ; the Confederate state government of Tennessee was never very effective and largely dysfunctional due to the early loss of much Tennessee territory to Union forces by the Confederates and also because neither the Confederacy nor slavery had ever had much public support in East Tennessee.

Together these groups analyzed mortality and morbidity data to create a cancer-by-county study from 1940 to 1980 for the State of Tennessee and applied biostatistical science to litigate Superfund and other toxic waste sites and limits on point source industrial carcinogens.

The Little Tennessee River enters Tennessee from its source in the Appalachian Mountains and flows for just over through parts of Blount, Monroe, and Loudon counties before emptying into the Tennessee River near Lenoir City.

The Little Tennessee River flows northwestward from its source in the Appalachian Mountains and traverses a stretch of northern Monroe County before emptying into the Tennessee River near Lenoir City.

A long outcrop belt of the Holston in East Tennessee is the source of the decorative building stone known as Tennessee marble.

Fort Loudoun Dam is located at just over upstream from the mouth of the Tennessee River and nearly downstream from the river's source at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad at Knoxville.

The Clinch River flows southwestward for from its source in southwestern Virginia through the hills of northeastern Tennessee before emptying into the Tennessee River at Kingston.