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The Eiffel Tower of Paris, Tennessee.
Location of Paris, Tennessee Location of Paris, Tennessee State Tennessee Paris is a town/city in Henry County, Tennessee, 86 miles (138 km) northwest of Nashville, on a fork of the West Sandy River and the Tennessee River.
A 70-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower stands in Paris. Paris is also home of the "World's Biggest Fish Fry".
The present site of Paris was chose by five commissioners appointed to the task at the December 1822 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Henry County.
It was the first town incorporated in West Tennessee, followed by Lexington on October 9, 1824, and Memphis on December 19, 1826. The town/city was titled after Paris, France, with respect to the Marquis de Lafayette. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.9 square miles (28 km2), of which 10.9 square miles (28 km2) is territory and 0.04-square-mile (0.10 km2) is water.
The text of the sign beneath the catfish statue reads Welcome to Paris, Tennessee.
Main article: Eiffel Tower (Paris, Tennessee) Originally constructed by Christian Brothers University in the early 1990s, the Eiffel Tower is positioned in Eiffel Tower Park.
The fortress is a 70 foot tall scale model of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. In addition to the Eiffel Tower, Eiffel Tower Park provides tennis courts, a enhance Olympic-sized swimming pool, soccer fields, two walking trails, a children's playground with pavilions, and a newly constructed frisbee golf course.
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House of Representatives 1965-1981, member of the United States delegation to the United Nations 1973 and 1984, member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1978-1980 House of Representatives 1837-1841, Attorney General of the Ninth Judicial District of Tennessee 1841-1843 Harris Tennessee State Senate 1847, U.
House of Representatives 1848-1852, Tennessee governor 1857-1862, United States Senate 1877-1897, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1893-1895 Howell Edmunds Jackson Tennessee House of Representatives 1880-1881, United States Senate 1881-1886, Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit 1886-1891, Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals 1891-1893, U.S.
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Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools' merging (George Peabody College) until 1909 Thomas Clarke Rye Attorney General of the 13th Judicial District, Tennessee governor 1915-1919, Chancellor of the 8th Chancery Court of Tennessee 1922-1942 Tarrant Representative of Red River County, Texas in the Texas House of Representatives September December 1837, Chief Justice of Red River County, Texas 1838, Brigadier General of Fourth Brigade Northeast Texas Defenders, Texas House of Representatives 1849-1853, namesake of Tarrant County, Texas Felix Zollicoffer Tennessee State Printer 1835, Comptroller of the Tennessee State Treasury 1845-1849, Tennessee State Senate 1849-1852, U.
History of Paris/Henry Co., Paris-Henry County Chamber of Commerce.
https://paristnchamber.com/eiffeltower.htm Paris, TN Chamber of Commerce.
A History of Henry County Tennessee, Volume 1.
"The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1886 History of Henderson County".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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"Enumeration of Population and Housing: Decennial Censuses".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
https://paristnchamber.com/industry.htm Paris, TN Chamber of Commerce.
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Municipalities and communities of Henry County, Tennessee, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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