Tennessee Resort - Birdsong Resort & Marina

Old Peckerwood Landing Nature Trail

tennesseeresort — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:58:18 +0000

A two-mile nature trail that winds along the cool, shady, lazy creek sides in the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge (TNWR). Enjoy the natural abundance of wildlife in its natural habitat, observe the biological communities along this relaxing journey through wetlands, marshland, corn and soybean crop fields planted for waterfowl and deer feeding.

Civil War Tours

tennesseeresort — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:05:17 +0000

When you visit Birdsong Resort and Marina ask about our civil war tours. Historical Civil War Battle of Johnsonville happened on the area waters of our own Kentucky Lake. Nathan Bedford Forrest opened fire on the supply depot and the town of Johnsonville November 4, 1864. One of West Tennessee’s highest points is Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park’s Pilot Knob. The “Knob” is home to a monument on the battle site and a Tennessee River Folk Life Museum.

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Camping Along The Shores Of Kentucky Lake

tennesseeresort — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:50:58 +0000

At Kentucky Lake’s Birdsong Resort and Marina you camp along the quiet water’s edge of the scenic Tennessee River’s beautiful Kentucky Lake. Over 50 RV pads (most concrete, some pull-thru) over looking the river.

Cool and shady grass tent area directly at the water’s edge feature available community electricity and water.

All resort guests have full use of the swimming pool, open air pavilion, children’s playground, basketball area, volleyball sandpit, horseshoes, ping pong, shuffleboard, and sand piles.

A GEM of a DESTINATION

tennesseeresort — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:28:35 +0000

It’s more than meets the eye. That is, the Tennessee River Freshwater Pearl Museum located at Birdsong Marina on the scenic Tennessee River’s beautiful Kentucky Lake. I was looking forward to the museum and to learn about pearls. But I did not know of all the things to do at mile marker 103.7 LDB.

The Tennessee River Pearl Museum is tucked away inside the main building of the combination marina office, boat sales office, boating supply store, and pearl showroom. The large building houses all these, plus it has a small auditorium for showing an introductory video about the pearl farm. The owners, Bob Keast and his wife Janis, have operated the museum and marina since 1980. Bob Jr. originally moved to Birdsong when he was 10 back in 1961 with his Mother and Father, Lorrine and Bob Keast, Sr.

Tennessee River – A Tough River To Tame

tennesseeresort — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:50:39 +0000

When settlers first crossed the Appalachian mountains from the Virginia/Carolina area, they found that the French trappers and Spanish explorers had long preceded them in using the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers as their highways”. Of course, the Native Americans preceded them. But, the shoals, bars, “sucks” and other hazards naturally occurring owing to the geological history of the region didn’t bother those who traveled pretty light. The settlers came in flat boats with animals, household goods and merchandise. Nashville, TN, was established by a party, which came down the Tennessee River to the Ohio and thence up the Cumberland for about 200 river miles. In 1799, this group lost several boats, people and possessions in the infamous “suck’ below Chattanooga. This hazard was only one of many which dogged the development of safe navigation on the Tennessee for well over one hundred years.