OK, here are the official answers, and some have more than one " right answer" I learned after using reliable sources, so i graded charitably Betsy Farrar won with all of them right! 1 Danville Crssing is named for a ferry and also a railroad crossing later, over the TN river, 2 where did one of the last ferries cross teh Tennessee Riuver... see #1 3 Tennessee became a state june 16, 1796 4 The stars in teh state flag represent the 3 distinct areas of the state, east, middle and West, the circle for unity 5 Tennessee; America at its best is the slogan 6 the Volunteer state got its name in teh war of 1812 7 the state animal is the raccoon 8 The quail and Mockingbird arre both state birds 9 the lightening bug and ladybug are both official bugs 10 the state of franklin existed 1784-1788 11John Sevier was the first appointed govenor, Blount the first elected, either counts right 12 There is a freshwater pearl farm in Camden that gives toures... ok it is also a mussel farm 13 Tennessee is named for the Indain workd Tann-asie meaning meeting place.. now aren't we all glad? 14 Dr Thomas Walker erred in a survey and Clarksville ended up in TN rather than KY. 15 DStewart was thecounty that reached into KY and to ALA 16 this one got a lot of answers... but it is supposed to be Cumberland tahat was the NC state of TN 17 Davy Crockett's grandson was a newspaperman in Stewart Co 18 Montgomery, Stewart, Dickson, and humphreys all had furnaces 19 Thomas benton hart was who benton Cop was named for, but he fell from grace, and they now say it was for David benton..either counts 20 Dickson..named for Dr Wm Dickson 21 Patrick henry 22 Sam Houston 23 judge Perry Humphreys 24 DuncanStewart 25 a LOT lay claim to the oldest courthouse still in use, Charlotte was built first but Henry clamins theirs is CONIINUAL use 26 Land between the lakes used to be Land Between the Rivers Dopn t anyone be mad...we all learned a lot about tennessee and had some fun! Cacky -------------------------------- End of TNHUMPHR-D Digest V00 Issue #72 ************************************** From root@lists6.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 1 18:59:42 2000 Return-Path: <root@lists6.rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e721xfw13413 for <indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:59:41 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e721xga19073 for indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:59:42 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:59:42 -0700 Message-Id: <200008020159.e721xga19073@lists6.rootsweb.com> From: TNHUMPHR-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: TNHUMPHR-D Digest V00 #72 X-Loop: TNHUMPHR-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TNHUMPHR-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume00/72 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: TNHUMPHR-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TNHUMPHR-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TNHUMPHR-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 72 Today's Topics: #1 DC answers [CackyCline@aol.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TNHUMPHR-D, send a message to TNHUMPHR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.