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By Tom Bosse, December 30, 2017
The Market Place of Pearls Marker
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1 ► Tennessee, Anderson County, Clinton — 1D 20 — The Market Place of Pearls —  |
| From about 1895 to 1936 Tennessee was one of the nation's six leading states in marketing pearls. Clinton was listed as one of three Tennessee towns known as centers of the pearling industry. New York dealers came regularly to Clinton during the . . . — — Map (db m112098) HM | |||
| 2 ► Tennessee, Anderson County, Clinton — City of Pearls — |
| In 1895, Sam Hendrickson (pictured) started Clinton's pearling industry. Clinton's citizens used braille boats (pictured) with braille hooks (pictured) to drag the bottom of the Clinch River for mussel shells (pictured). Young's Island (pictured) . . . — — Map (db m112097) HM | |||