Tennessee Phone Directory

Tennessee is a state in the United States of America situated in the Southeastern part of the country. Tennessee’s nickname is the “Volunteer State”. The state earned this nickname during the War of 1812 because of the large number of volunteer soldiers from Tennessee that participated in the War.




Nobody knows for sure where the name Tennessee comes from. There were several variants during the years but none of which were supported by actual proof. Its’ spelling is attributed to governor of South Carolina, James Glen, who used today’s spelling of the name in his correspondence.

The Tennessee phone directory still contains famous names, successors of men that have written American history during the years. You will most surely will discover that Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson, Martin Luther King are still to be found in the Tennessee phone directory, reminders of the fact that history was written here.

Tennessee was the stage of many violent confrontations among which the assassination of Martin Luther King. The Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski was mostly responsible for some of the violent confrontations that took place in this state and made Tennessee the stage for numerous racial battles. It was the last state to leave the Union, at the break of the U.S. Civil War, and the first state that was readmitted to it at the end of the war.

Tennessee was the home of the wide spread phenomenon that was rock and roll and of the early blues music. Sun Records was located in Tennessee, record company which launched names like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Charlie Rich.

Browsing through the Tennessee phone directory you will probably find Elvis Presley living in Tennessee. Never mind the fact that he is the grandfather of five and can barely sing a note. His mother was probably an Elvis fan, thus the name. Tennessee was also the home of country music through its’ city Nashville which soon became the center of country music recording.

Tennessee’s economy strongly relies on agriculture, tourism and manufacturing, tobacco and cotton being the state’s most rich cultures. The beef cattle can be found in 59 percent of the farms in the state making it one of the major areas of industry in Tennessee. Soybeans are also cultivated on large areas, especially in West Tennessee .

As far as technology and modern applications are concerned, the Tennessee phone directories will lead you to companies like: International Paper, FedEx Corporation, AutoZone Incorporated, Regal Entertainment Group, the North American headquarters of Nissan, the head-quarters of Caterpillar, the famous mining company and Eastman Chemical Company. Tennessee strongly relies also on tourism, its’ troubled history and its’ implication in the American history representing a major tourist attraction, not only for Americans but mostly for Europeans.