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Clark, Ed

Internationally recognized Life photographer Ed Clark was born in Nashville in 1911. Pursuing an early interest in photography, Clark dropped out of Hume-Fogg High School to work as a photographer's assistant at the Nashville Tennessean. For thirteen years he served…

Clark, Sam Lillard

Sam L. Clark, nationally known anatomist, scientist, and medical educator, was born in Nashville on October 5, 1898, a son of Martin and Margaret Ransom Lillard Clark. His grandfather, Dr. William Martin Clark, was a founder and owner at one…

Clarksville

The county seat of Montgomery County and the second oldest municipality in Middle Tennessee, Clarksville is the state's fifth largest city, with a population of 103,455. Established in 1784 by the North Carolina legislature as the seat of Tennessee County…

Clarksville

The A.C. Stafford and Sons tobacco warehouse in Clarksville, circa 1895.

Claude Wilson Osteen

Newspaper clipping from either the Marshall Gazette or the Lewisburg Tribune. Adgent Collection, Gore Research Center, MTSU.

Claude Wilson Osteen

From Baseball Register, compiled by C. C. Johnson Spink (1963).

Claxton, Philander Priestley

Philander P. Claxton, the "Crusader for Public Education in the South," was born in a log cabin in rural Bedford County in 1862. He attended several "cabin" schools and received a secondary education at a backwoods academy, where, at age…

Clay County

Clay County Courthouse in Celina.

Clay County

Rosenwald School in the Free Hill Community north of Celina. This school is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Clay County

The Clay County Courthouse in Celina.

Clay County

The Tennessee General Assembly created Clay County on June 16, 1870, from the isolated northern sections of Overton and Jackson Counties. Citizens of the new county believed they would have a better opportunity to participate in self-government in their own…

Clay, Robert E.

Robert E. Clay, a pioneer of rural education for African Americans in Tennessee, helped to build hundreds of rural, county, and city schools. Clay was born on June 25, 1875, in Bristol, Virginia, to Harry and Frances Clay. He married…

Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne

Major general in the Army of Tennessee, Patrick R. Cleburne was born on St. Patrick's Day in County Cork, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States in 1849. Cleburne settled in Helena, Arkansas, where he rose in social position and…

Clement, Frank G.

In the history of southern statehouses, there have been numerous incandescent governors whose rhetorical skills and platform theatrics mesmerized voters, but none was more skillfully trained or more spectacular than Frank Clement, Tennessee's governor from 1953 to 1959 and again…

Clifford Glenwood Shull

Cliff Shull, right, and Ernest Wollan performing an experiment using the graphite reactor, circa 1950.

Clifton Bledsoe Cates

The General Clifton Bledsoe Cates historical marker at the University of Tennessee.

Clifton Place

Once the antebellum home of attorney, planter, and political figure General Gideon J. Pillow (1806-1877), Clifton Place in Maury County is one of the more lavish examples of Greek Revival architecture in southern Middle Tennessee. The nearly intact plantation is…

Cline, Patsy

Country music star Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on September 8, 1932, in Gore, Virginia. She was an entertainer from an early age but nearly lost her voice and her life when complications from a serious throat infection…

Clingman's Dome

Clingman's Dome, the highest point in Tennessee, crowns the Great Smoky Mountains at an elevation of 6,643 feet. It is created from folded, fractured, and faulted Precambrian rocks. On the Smokies' rugged shoulders one will find primarily the ancient Ocoee…

Clingman's Dome

Clingman s Dome is the highest point in Tennessee at 6,643 feet.

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