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Dixie Lee Junction is an unincorporated community in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States, near the border of Knox County. The community lies approximately two miles east of the junction of Interstates 40 and 75, at the junction of U.S. Routes 11 and 70, in Hines Valley near Hope Gap of Beaver Ridge. It was where the Dixie Highway's eastern division (US 70 to Kingston, Tennessee and then to Chattanooga via U.S. Route 27) and the Lee Highway (US 11 to Chattanooga) combined into a single roadway to Knoxville. (Approximately 35°51′N 84°13′W / 35.85°N 84.217°W / 35.85; -84.217)
Rumor has it that the crossroads were named for Dixie Lee, wife of Bing Crosby, who hailed from nearby Harriman, Tennessee. However, Jack Neely, historical reporter for the Knoxville Metro Pulse newspaper, writes that the name came from Dixie and Lee Highways[1].
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