Tennessee Travel

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Road signs at the Tennessee border once welcomed puzzled visitors to the “Three States of Tennessee,” and residents, when asked where they hail from, still specify East, Middle, or West Tennessee. The Tennessee flag shows three stars enclosed within a circle, representing the three Tennessees, and even the state constitution recognizes what it calls “three grand divisions.” Stretching from the craggy Appalachian Mountains to the banks of the Mississippi River, Tennessee does, in fact, encompass three distinctly different regions.