Knoxville to Nashville to Paris Landing

Knoxville to Paris Landing TN
We left the Knoxville area in the morning amid overcast skies and headed to Nashville. There was some minor drizzle but then the skies cleared to large puffy cumulous clouds and blue all over. I had wanted to see the Tennessee State Museum, and the state capital building.
We stopped at the capital and found a parking place and took the Jeep to the museum. I’m sure glad that this was the weekend and we did not have to fight the traffic of a business day.
They had artifacts on the early Indian tribes and this was quite an area for flint stone and the making of flintstone axes, arrows and other assorted tools.
Later the days of the early settlers and the War of 1812 came here. It was during this time that Andrew Jackson led attacks on the Indians of the area and therefore pushed out the British who were their allies therefore securing Tennessee and Missouri, and then later Texas for the expansion of the US. Sam Houston and Davie Crockett were both from Tennessee also and both were instrumental in taking Texas from the Spanish and bringing it into the US.
Crockett was originally a long rifle the name given to those trappers and traders who spent one year or more hunting and trapping in the Tennessee wilderness for furs. In those days a deerskin sold for a dollar hence the name buckskin.
Because of all of the volunteers from Tennessee in these and other wars it was named the Volunteer State.
Jackson as well as being president of the US was also quite a brawler having fought in two duels and killing one man as well as being wounded in that duel himself.
Later Polk another US president was from Tennessee.
During the Civil War Tennessee was split with the West holding allegiance to the South and the eastern part to the north. Unfortunately the west was occupied by the North and the east occupied by the South so needless to say some battles were fought here.
After the war Tennessee was one of the states which had segregation and the Jim Crow laws to discriminate against blacks wanting to vote. It would take another 100 years for the US to fully allow segregation and equality for Black Americans.
The architecture of the capital is one of the best examples of the Antebellum style for a state house that can be found anywhere with those large columns.
After our visit to the capital we headed north on I-26 and then onto SR 79 to come to Paris Landing on the Tennessee River. This was a little out of our way (yeah like about 1 ½ hours out of the way). But the sign said State Campground and we took the off ramp not knowing it would be that far.
The good thing about this was that we found a wonderful place for dinner. Yass siirrr, Minnies Catfish Dinner was right plummm gooood eetin. Ann the hossspitaaality made us cuuuuntry folk rite at home. Now ya al come back ya hear, now! And we certainly would if we all were in the area because that was one great catfish buffet with desert and hush puppies and deep fried catfish and so many other things for only $8.00.
Well we waddled out of there and now it is time to say gooood night to ya al cause we are fixin to go to sleep on the biggest fullest tummy you can imagine.

1 Flintstone tools
2 Conestoga wagon
3 Tennessee the volunteer state
4 The state capital
5 The road in Tennessee