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A World’s Fair in Old Tennessee Opens May 1897
Tennessee prepares a grand centennial exposition in Nashville to open May 1 1897 with ten thousand veterans invited, massive state and railroad support, and buildings for arts commerce machinery and a dedicated children's and women’s halls.
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Tennessee
Mander
Grand Army of the Republic of Tennessee
Chattanooga
Nashville
Nashvile
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Ympany
Nashville, Chattanooga and St.ouis
Pior
J. M. Dickenson
Robertson
Creation
Providence
State of
America
People of
Commerce
Wineral
Austorium
J. W. Burn
Electricity Department
A. Macchi
Foreign Department
Rhode Island
Newport
R. L
New England
United States
Woman’s Building
Ellen A. Richardson
Boston
Isaac Boyd
Atlanta
Committee On
Harriet Newell Lodge
Indiana
Dan W. Bird
Croketts
Davy Crokett
H. B. Case