tennessee facts Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/tennessee-facts Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:37:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Tennessee http://travelsfinders.com/tennessee.html http://travelsfinders.com/tennessee.html#respond Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:20:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=205316 Jamie Winders CHRONOLOGY 1540-1541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto leads an expedition into Tennessee and plants the Spanish flag along the Mississippi River near present-day Memphis. 1566-1567 Juan Pardo, Spanish explorer, arrives in Tennessee and constructs the state’s first European-built structure. More than a century passes before another European comes to Tennessee. 1770s-1780s After British settlement in 1673, Spanish influence in Tennessee wanes. It remains strong, however, among the Chickasaw, who become a buffer between Anglo settlers and Spanish land claims in middle Tennessee. 1795 Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Louisiana’s Spanish lieutenant governor, builds Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas

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