Maryville, Tennessee

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Maryville

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Maryville.

Tennessee River 15 songs U.S. Route 441 3 songs Highway I 40 20 songs

History of Maryville

Maryville, Tennessee: Where Dave Ramsey Was Born RoadyGoat

Financial author and radio host Dave Ramsey was born in Maryville, Tennessee, on September 3, 1960 (he was raised in the Antioch area of Nashville). After building a leveraged real-estate portfolio in his twenties, he went bankrupt in 1988 when his loans were called. He rebuilt his finances and turned the lesson into a debt-free system: the '7 Baby Steps' and the 'debt snowball' — paying debts smallest balance first for psychological momentum — which he now teaches through his books, classes, and nationally syndicated show.

Two 22-Year-Olds, Same Year, Same Idea RoadyGoat

1886

Aluminum went from priceless to pocket change because of two young men who never met. In eighteen eighty-six, an American named Charles Hall and a Frenchman named Paul Heroult independently cracked the same problem in the same year. Both were just twenty-two years old. Each figured out that if you dissolve aluminum's oxide in a molten bath and run a powerful electric current through it, the pure metal drops out. We still call it the Hall-Heroult process, and almost every ounce of aluminum on the planet is made this way today. The catch is that it eats enormous amounts of electricity. That single requirement is the reason Alcoa, Tennessee exists, built beside dammed rivers that could supply the river of current those electric furnaces demand.

Your Can Could Be Back in 60 Days RoadyGoat

Making aluminum from raw ore is brutally power-hungry, the whole reason this town sits beside dammed rivers. But there's a shortcut, and it borders on magic. Melting down an old aluminum can to make a new one uses only about five percent of the energy it took to make that metal in the first place. Five percent. That's a ninety-five percent saving, just by remelting what already exists. And aluminum doesn't wear out in the process. The same atoms can cycle through forever, can to can to can. Industry figures the trip is fast too. The can you drop in a recycling bin can be melted, rolled, refilled, and back on a store shelf in as little as sixty days. That's roughly the loop the company that named this town helped set spinning.

Cades Cove

1818

A broad, fertile valley in the Great Smoky Mountains that was home to a thriving Appalachian community from the 1820s until the creation of the national park in the 1930s.

14.9 mi away

Sequoyah Birthplace Museum

1770

Sequoyah, born near this site around 1770, single-handedly created a writing system for the Cherokee language — the only known instance of an individual creating a complete writing system from scratch.

15.3 mi away

Things to Do in Maryville

historical 24.9 mi away
Dollywood

Dolly Parton's theme park in the Smoky Mountains. Southern food roller coasters and pure Dolly.
quirky 14.4 mi away
Mountain Dew Birthplace

The neon-green soda was invented in Knoxville TN in 1940 as a whiskey mixer.

Everything Near Maryville

47 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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