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This article currently says the river flows from the Mississippi River to the mountains, which is obviously impossible. Can anyone come up with a better way to write this, while still keeping all of the info? Perhaps we could also add some of its major tributaries, like the French Broad River. – radiojon 05:44, 2003 Sep 28 (UTC)
Someone with the ip startin 72.75.... keeping changing the discharge and removing the cubic meter per sec. I have cited my source. I have also find a USGS with a very similar number of 65,600 cfs http://tn.water.usgs.gov/lten/basin_description.html If you have another source please post it! -- ChristopherM 03:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
The section on how the source of the river was moved from the Holston & Little Tennessee confluence to the Holston & French Broad is interesting. I've read somewhere that the Little Tennessee River was simply the Tennessee River for a long time, but I had not heard the story of the source being moved due to the TVA headquarters location. Can we get a reference citation for this interesting story? Currently the text simply says "According to Tennessee Valley Authority historians...", which is a bit hard to reference. Thanks! Pfly 22:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
I received that information from retired TVA engineers who helped build Norris Dam.. I am a news reporter who used to cover the Tennessee Valley Authority for WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee; TVA, the Clinch River Breeder Reactor, and the Great Smokey Mountains were my beat. The information on the origin of the Tennessee River was within a story on the 50th anniversity of the agency.
The website below confirms what I was told. Go to the eighth line of the article after the "paper" notation.
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/frenchbd.htm
Thanks for the interest!
Calvin Sneed
WTVC-TV, NewsChannel 9
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Yeah, when I was first told that in a TV interview (the Norris Dam engineer whose name I cannot recall, was about 85 years old at the time; I'm assuming he may have passed away by now), it raised an eyebrow with me, too, having lived in Tennessee most of my life. A couple of the other Norris and Fontana Dam engineers in my TVA history stories mentioned the same name-changing when I spoke with them. Meanwhile, I had gone down to the TVA Maps Section in the headquarters in downtown Knoxville because I was at the time (and still am) a gigantic map freak, and discovered SEVERAL different Tennessee River headwaters confluences over many years, and many arguments about them. I haven't looked at the TVA Act, but the Norris engineer made it sound like the Holston-French Broad-Little "T" confluence was a quick agreement between senators and house representatives at the time that wasn't necessarily written into the act itself, because there was some initial opposition to the creation of the TVA, both in Tennessee and in Congress. Since the river's beginnings had indeed changed several times in the early years, it made sense at the time. Since it's an interesting piece of trivia, especially since the ole timers seemed to remember it, I will also research the archives at the station in Knoxville where I worked, to see if they still have those old stories I did about TVA. Let me know if you find out anything, too!
By the way, you'll enjoy a piece of trivia I wrote about House Mountain, northeast of Knoxville, and its role in changing the landscape of Knoxville television (key in "House Mountain"). In these days of fierce competition between TV stations, the archival info I got from my boss who was there back in the 1950's, sounds like a great movie!
Csneed 14:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Note on Trivia: I have personally seen an old map that show the course of the Tennessee River upstream from the Ohio following its current course, then the course of the current Little Tennessee. There was no "Little Tennessee River" on the map. The Holston flowed past Knoxvile to what is now the confluence with the Little Tennessee. If I find a source for the map, I will post back. I believe it was connected to SW Point Fort in Kingston. Afton -- AW 17:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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==Importance==
High importance. The Tennessee river is not only well known in the state of Tennessee but also beyond the state. ==Quality== Start class. The information is structured well and images are used to illustrate the topic. Linking has been done to a good extend. The referencing of facts, however, shoud not end outside of the infobox. To further enhance the quality of the article, stated facts need to be referenced. |
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The History section seems to be concerned with local politics. What about its wider history, including, for example, the great significance of the river in the Civil War? Valetude ( talk) 13:04, 25 May 2018 (UTC)