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General Jackson (riverboat)

Index General Jackson (riverboat)

General Jackson is a riverboat—more specifically, a showboat—based on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. [1]

21 relations: Andrew Jackson, Bridge, Cincinnati, Country music, Cumberland River, Diesel generator, Draft (hull), Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Gospel music, Grand Ole Opry, Jeffboat, Jeffersonville, Indiana, Nashville, Tennessee, Opry Mills, Opryland USA, Riverboat, Ryman Hospitality Properties, Shopping mall, Showboat, Steam, Tall Stacks.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

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Cincinnati

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cumberland River

The Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States.

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Diesel generator

A diesel generator is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate electrical energy.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.

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Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, formerly known as Opryland Hotel, is a hotel and convention center located in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Jeffboat

Jeffboat is a shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana founded by James Howard in 1834, a builder of steamboats.

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Jeffersonville, Indiana

Jeffersonville is a city in Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Opry Mills

Opry Mills is a super-regional shopping mall owned by Simon Property Group, formerly by its initial owners Mills Corporation and Gaylord Entertainment.

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Opryland USA

Opryland USA (later called Opryland Theme park and colloquially referred to simply as Opryland) was an amusement park in suburban Nashville, Tennessee.

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Riverboat

A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.

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Ryman Hospitality Properties

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. is a hotel, resort, entertainment, and media company named after National Historic Landmark the Ryman Auditorium, built as a tabernacle by Captain Thomas G. Ryman in 1892 and later the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.

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Shopping mall

A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

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Showboat

A showboat, or show boat, was a floating theater that traveled along the waterways of the United States, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, to bring culture and entertainment to the inhabitants of river frontiers.

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Steam

Steam is water in the gas phase, which is formed when water boils.

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Tall Stacks

Tall Stacks, formally known as the Tall Stacks Music, Arts, and Heritage Festival, was a festival held every three or four years in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, which celebrated the city's heritage of the riverboat.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Jackson_(riverboat)

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