Townsend, Tennessee

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Music in Townsend

Songs About Townsend

Rocky Top - Live
Dolly Parton
90%
"Well I wish that I was on old Rocky Top"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Townsend

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

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

History of Townsend

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.

13.4 mi away

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.

14.5 mi away

When Aluminum Cost More Than Gold RoadyGoat

1855

The metal this town was built on was once a treasure more precious than gold. In the mid-eighteen hundreds aluminum was so hard to refine that it traded like a jewel. The story goes that Emperor Napoleon the Third of France served his most honored guests with aluminum forks and spoons, while lesser visitors had to make do with mere gold. Across the ocean in eighteen eighty-four, builders capped the brand-new Washington Monument with a small pyramid of solid aluminum, chosen partly as a showpiece of a metal then valued like silver. It was the largest single piece of aluminum anyone had ever cast. A few decades later that same once-priceless metal would be smelted by the ton, in an entire Tennessee town named for the company that made it.

14.6 mi away

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.

6.0 mi away

Great Smoky Mountains - Newfound Gap

1934

The most visited national park in the United States, with over 12 million annual visitors, straddling the Tennessee-North Carolina border along the crest of the Appalachians.

18.9 mi away

Things to Do in Townsend

nature 15.5 mi away
Great Smoky Mountains

America's most visited national park. Misty blue peaks and synchronous fireflies.
historical 15.0 mi away
Dollywood

Dolly Parton's theme park in the Smoky Mountains. Southern food roller coasters and pure Dolly.
quirky 21.8 mi away
Mountain Dew Birthplace

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

Everything Near Townsend

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

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