The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency has opened an evacuation center at Tellico Plains High School ... It offers gorgeous nature views at Bald River Falls and across the Cherohala Skyway.

In the 1970s, the discovery of the Tennessee snail darter in the Tellico River was used to halt completion of the Tellico Dam under the Endangered Species Act (a tale many law students learn in ...

went snorkeling with students in the Little Tennessee River at Coytee Spring, not far from Tellico. There, they found a fish on the river bottom that Dr. Etnier said he had never seen before ...

Mathews' own 2011 book on local history, "The Pictorial History of the Tellico Plains Tennessee Area (1849-1949) 'The Collections of Charles Hall,'" offers 222 pages filled with more than 630 ...

The Tennessee River begins in Knoxville and flows right ... 28 miles from Knoxville Tellico Dam Reservation in Lenoir City, 28 miles from Knoxville Cherokee Dam Reservation near Jefferson City ...