Editing Union City, Tennessee (section)

== Cultural ==

[[File:The Tower at Discovery Park of America.jpg|thumb|Discovery Park of America in Union City, TN.]]

=== Museums ===
Union City is home to [[Discovery Park of America]], a 50-acre museum and heritage park with exhibits pertaining to local and national history, nature, military history, art and science.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Discovery Park of America|url=https://discoveryparkofamerica.com/|access-date=September 28, 2019|website=Discovery Park of America|language=en-US}}</ref> Discovery Park was founded by local businessman Robert Kirkland in order to give back to his home community.

===Sports===
Union City was home to a [[Minor League Baseball]] team known as the [[Union City Greyhounds]] from 1935 to 1942 and 1946 to 1952 and as the [[Union City Dodgers]] from 1953 to 1955.
<ref name=BBRef>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?city=Union%20City&state=TN&country=US&empty=0|title=Sports in Union City, Tennessee|work=Baseball-Reference|publisher=Sports Reference|access-date=June 5, 2020}}</ref> They played in the [[Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League]] and won three league championships (1936, 1948, and 1954).<ref name=BBRef/> Over their 19-year run, the team had affiliations with the [[St. Louis Cardinals]], [[Cincinnati Reds]], [[Cleveland Indians]], and [[Brooklyn Dodgers]].<ref name=BBRef/>

===Media===
Union City is served by the newspaper ''The Messenger'' (Union City Daily Messenger).<ref>[http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/42/2333/5694 Union City Daily Messenger], Mondotimes.com, Retrieved, October 6, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.nwtntoday.com/ NWTNToday.com]</ref>

Union City is in the southernmost portion of the [[Paducah, Kentucky|Paducah]]&ndash;[[Cape Girardeau, Missouri|Cape Girardeau]]&ndash;[[Harrisburg, Illinois|Harrisburg]] television market. Locally based [[low-power broadcasting|Low-Power]] [[Class A television service|Class A]] [[television station]] [[WUWT-CD]] (channel 26) is licensed to Union City and serves Union City, Obion County, and immediate surrounding areas with programming from [[Retro TV]], with programming from [[The Family Channel (American TV network, founded 2008)|The Family Channel]] airing on its second [[digital subchannel]]. The main television broadcast stations serving extreme northwest Tennessee are:

*[[WSIL-TV]] 3 Harrisburg ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]])
*[[WPSD-TV]] 6 Paducah ([[NBC]])
*[[WLJT]] 11 [[Lexington, Tennessee|Lexington, TN]] ([[PBS]])
*[[KFVS-TV]] 12 Cape Girardeau ([[CBS]])
**KFVS-TV 12.2 Cape Girardeau ([[The CW]])
*[[KBSI]] 23 Cape Girardeau ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]])
*[[WUWT-CD]] 26 Union City ([[Retro TV|RTV]])
*[[WKPD]] 29 Paducah ([[PBS]])
*[[WDKA]] 49 Paducah ([[MyNetworkTV|MNTV]])

[[File:Union City Confederate Monument.jpg|thumb|[[Confederate Monument (Union City, Tennessee)|Confederate Monument]]]]

===Historic landmarks===
*Masquerade Theatre - located in the former Capital Theater on South First Street. The theatre is a historic landmark and has been standing since the early 1900s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucmasqueradetheatre.com/history/|title=History|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
*[[Confederate Monument (Union City, Tennessee)|Confederate Monument]]