Talk:Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition

Status as a World's fair
Does anyone know of any proof that the Centennial was considered a World's Fair? I work as a docent at the Parthenon in Nashville, and the thought of that has never come up. We have been told repeatedly that the Centennial was done to commemorate statehood and nothing else. Fly46 (talk) 03:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)fly46


 * In the Centennial celebration was organized and promoted as a World's Fair, but as historian Bruce Harvey points out in his Ph.D thesis, “The international component of [the Tennessee world’s fair] was minimal if it even existed in other than the name.” The Parthenon and Memphis' pyramid were built to foster the international aspects, but those aspects were relatively few. Meinelmj (talk) 06:22, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

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