For more than a hundred years, the fertile and forested patch between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers was referred to as the “land between the rivers.” In the 1960s, it became the “land between the lakes.”
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After the American Civil War, the region known as the Land Between the Rivers in Kentucky and Tennessee experienced economic and societal struggles that mirrored the rest of the nation. The collapse of the iron industry left the ruins of eight iron furnaces inside the boundary of what is now the Land Between the Lakes.
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