Another Jalen convo
Jalen was just asking me about why we moved from Florida and how much we made on our house and so on....we chatted about hurricanes and mountains and the reasons we wanted to live here instead of at the beach.
"Why do they call it TennesSEE though? There's no seas around here." says the boy.
"Why do they call it TennesSEE though? There's no seas around here." says the boy.
posted by Ren Allen | 10:30 AM
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Very cute. : )
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Very cute indeed. :) Did you look it up? I just checked Wikipedia and it says:
The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. In the early 1700s, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi (or "Tanase") in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee.
It goes on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee#Name_origin
That's pretty cool Michael! Thanks for the tidbit, I love those odd pieces of information. Something I never bothered to ask about.:)
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