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Argentine wine over Tennessee water

Nooga.com

Date: 5/24/2013 6:38:05 AM

Ocoee Adventure Company, which is known for its eco-cruises through the Tennessee River Gorge, has partnered with Chattanooga-based Panoram Imports to offer the regularly scheduled break from your regularly scheduled wine experience. For the first ...See all stories on this topic »Nooga

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Blue Moon Offers Chattanooga's First Wine Tasting Cruise

The Chattanoogan

Date: 5/23/2013 1:01:20 AM

Cruisers will enjoy a full presentation of six boutique, high altitude, Argentine wines accompanied by light hors d'oeuvres, while cruising on the Tennessee River. The Blue Moon has been in Chattanooga for seven years specializing in private charters ...See all stories on this topic

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Tennessee's Indians in the Historical Era, Part 5 of 5

The Chattanoogan

Date: 5/22/2013 3:36:14 PM

For a century or so, the lower Tennessee River, and sometimes its entire length, was called by their name. Their descendants shared the fate of their Koasati hosts. Koasati. By the 1800's, these people had moved from Coosada at Larkin's Landing to just ...See all stories on this topic

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings Issued For Parts Of Mid-State - NewsChannel5 ...

NewsChannel5.com

Date: 5/21/2013 8:58:17 PM

The slight probability of severe storms was extended Tuesday through the Tennessee River Valley. NWS forecaster John Sirmon in the Memphis office said rain falling Tuesday morning in West Tennessee would help ensure the approaching heavier line of ...See all stories on this topic

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Tennessee's Indians in the Historical Era, Part 4 of 5

The Chattanoogan

Date: 5/20/2013 9:37:46 PM

We know from other contemporary sources that there was a band of Yuchi on the Great Bend of the Tennessee River, just above the Muscle Shoals (which extended roughly from Browns Island eleven miles below Decatur to Florence). In the Hiwassee Valley, ...See all stories on this topic

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• River: Tennessee River
• Surface Area: 67,100 Acres
• Shoreline: 899 Miles
• Length: 74 Miles
• Volume: 1,050,000 Acre Feet
• Drainage Area: 29,590 Square Miles
• Avgerage Depth: 16 Feet
Wheeler Lake is the second-largest lake on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama, second only to Guntersville Lake, its immediate upstream neighbor. Wheeler Lake is also bordered by Wilson Lake on its downstream side. The lake was constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority just prior to World War II as a means of hydroelectric generation and flood control, as well as to facilitate navigation along the Tennessee River. Today the lake is mostly popular for recreation purposes and barge traffic. The name of this impoundment comes from Civil War general Joseph 'Fightin' Joe Wheeler, who frequented the area during the war and later returned to the area to live.
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