Birdsong Resort, Marina, Campground and the Tennessee River Freshwater Pearl Museum, Farm, Tour and Pearl Jewelry Showroom is located at Tennessee River Mile (TRM) 103.7 LDB which is  3 miles south of the New Johnsonville Steam Plant.  Birdsong's recreational complex is tucked in two miles from the main Tennessee's Kentucky Lake in a well bouyed channel. By land use Mapquest with 38320, Camden Tennessee which is located halfway between Nashville and Memphis on Interstate 40 at Mile Marker (MM0 133 at the Birdsong Exit.
 

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Tennessee River
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The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 650 miles (1,046 km) long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names. [1]

Course

The Tennessee River is formed at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad Rivers on the east side of Knoxville, Tennessee. From Knoxville, it flows southwest through East Tennessee toward Chattanooga before crossing into Alabama. It loops through northern Alabama and eventually forms a small part of the state's border with Mississippi, before returning to Tennessee. At this point, it defines the boundary between Tennessee's other two regions—Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project providing navigation on the Tombigbee River and a link to the Port of Mobile, enters Tennessee near the Tennessee-Alabama-Mississippi boundary. This waterway reduces the navigation distance from Tennessee, north Alabama, and northern Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico by hundreds of miles. The final part of the Tennessee's run is in Kentucky, where it separates the Jackson Purchase from the rest of the state. It then flows into the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky. It is one of a very few rivers in the United States which leave a state and then re-enter it; the Cumberland River is another such river.

Dams

The river has been dammed numerous times, primarily by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) projects. The placement of TVA's Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River and the Corps' Barkley Dam on the Cumberland River directly led to the creation of Land Between the Lakes. A navigation canal located at Grand Rivers, Kentucky links Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. The canal allows for a shorter trip for river traffic going from the Tennessee to most of the Ohio River, and for traffic going down the Cumberland River toward the Mississippi.

Important cities and towns

Cities in bold type contain over 30,000 residents

Popular culture

See also

External links

Wikipedia information about Tennessee_River
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