Tennessee Centennial


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The Tennessee Centennial Exposition, which celebrated Tennessee's 100th year of statehood, opened May 1, 1897, at Nashville's Centennial Park and enjoyed tremendous success during its six-month run. Citizens from all over Tennessee--and the nation--honored the state's history by sponsoring exhibits at the event, and thousands of visitors flocked to the fairgrounds each day to experience the excitement it offered. In this fascinating collection of over 200 images combined with informative, well-researched text, author Bobby Lawrence takes us on a journey into the past to relive the optimism and wonders of another time. Take a relaxing gondola ride on one of the park's four lakes or stroll the 200-acre grounds and visit a variety of buildings and exhibits featuring everything from ancient artifacts to scientific inventions, from on-site farms to international restaurants, from the thrilling Vanity Fair, a midway attraction comparable to today's amusement parks, to one of the first large displays of electric lights.




Report on the United States Government Exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, 1897 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Report on the United States Government Exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, 1897 Joint Resolution providing for the publication of the report of the board of management of the United States Government exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars provided for in section three of the Act to aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, approved December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be applied to the preparation of illustrations and the printing and binding at the Government Printing Office of six thousand copies of the report of the board of management of the United States Government exhibit at said exposition, under the direction of the chairman of said board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Tennessee Centennial Exposition


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