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You’ve probably heard the line “good to the last drop” in advertising but do you know when it was first said, who said it, and what product they were talking about? Did you say it was one of the presidents?You are exactly right. It was President Theodore Roosevelt. During one of his visits to Nashville, President Roosevelt had a cup of locally produced coffee at the Maxwell House Hotel. After drinking the coffee he coined the phrase “good to the last drop”. That’s all it took. The phrase stuck and it has been identified with Maxwell House Coffee ever since. Although this famous coffee is still enjoyed everywhere, the hotel where it got it name burned to the ground. It was served for the last time at the Maxwell House Hotel on December 25, 1961.
OK, are you familiar with the Ocoee River in Polk County Tennessee? The Ocoee was the FIRST natural river used for Olympic whitewater competition. It was used in July 1996 during the summer Olympics which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The course designers had to re-channel the riverbed to create an Olympic course one-third the width of the original riverbed. This whitewater competition attracted over 15,000 visitors and more than 1,000 volunteers and staff.
I wonder how many people know the name of the person who is remembered for his famous rally cry "Damn the Torpedoes”? Yes, it was Admiral David Farragut from Knoxville. David Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 and became an Admiral in the Navy on July 16, 1862....the FIRST Admiral ever in American History.
I bet most people don’t know that Tennessee was the FIRST state created out of federal lands. And that The Statehood Proclamation was signed by President George Washington in 1796 and is now on display in the Museum of Tennessee history.
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