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With names like "Rattle and Snap," "Green Frog Village" and "Crescent Bend," you are immediately drawn into legends that lie within Tennessee's carefully preserved homes, villages, farms and surrounds.

Look into a graceful, early rural life at 1797 Ramsey House Plantation, with acreage, exhibits and an heirloom garden. Once considered "the most costly and most admired house in Tennessee," it is among the few surviving houses designed by Tennessee's first formally trained architect, Thomas Hope. Learn about the Overton legacy at 200-year-old Traveller's Rest Plantation and Museum at Traveller's Rest. Take in a reenactment as you tour the grounds, the home and the schoolhouse.

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Savannah Historic District and Trail
A two-mile drive or stroll past 17 historical homes and one commercial building that depict several architectural styles of the era. The homes are privately owned, but visitors are encouraged to stroll or drive through the scenic area to take pictures. ...more

Region:  Southwest
City:  Savannah, TN
Phone:  731-925-8181

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Scarritt-Bennett Center Series
A non-profit conference, retreat, education center in the heart of Nashville. Gothic buildings, gardens, international museum and gift shop. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Nashville, TN
Phone:  615-340-7500

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Sergeant Alvin C. York State Historic Park
Alvin York, one of the nation’s most decorated war heroes, became the public face of the Congressional Medal of Honor after capturing 35 German machine guns and 132 prisoners in the Argonne Forest in 1918. York was a hard-working, hard-fighting sharpshooter, a simple country boy and a religious pacifist who displayed tremendous courage, calm and common sense in taking charge of his battalion when their commanding officer was killed. ...more

Region:  Upper Cumberland
City:  Pall Mall, TN
Phone:  931-879-6456

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Shelby’s Fort Historical Marker and E.W. King House
General Evan Shelby erected a fort here in 1771 that sheltered and protected pioneers and sent victorious forces to the Revolutionary War battles of Point Pleasant, Long Island Flats and Chickamauga towns. The house you see behind the marker was built in 1902 by E. ...more

Region:  Northeast
City:  Bristol, TN
Phone:  423-844-0627

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Sheriff Buford Pusser Home & Museum
The Buford Pusser home and museum is the real home, furnishings and memorabilia of the late Buford Pusser. ...more

Region:  Southwest
City:  Adamsville, TN
Phone:  731-632-4080

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Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum (Burkle Estate)
A white clapboard house built in 1849 by Jacob Burkle is rumored to have served as a way station on the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves. A tour of the house includes a visit to a small cellar where slaves waited to escape. ...more

Region:  Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City:  Memphis, TN
Phone:  901-527-3427

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Sleepy John Estes House
This is the house where blues legend John Adam Estes resided at the time of his death in 1977. Photographs and biographies are displayed. ...more

Region:  Southwest
City:  Brownsville, TN
Phone:  731-779-9000

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Smith County Heritage Museum
The Smith County Heritage Museum is located in Carthage, in the former W. E. ...more

Region:  Upper Cumberland
City:  Carthage, TN
Phone:  615-735-1104

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Smith-Trahern Mansion
A beautiful 1850s home overlooking the Cumberland River. Grand hallways, jib windows, a winding staircase and a widow's walk on the roof grace the home. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Clarksville, TN
Phone:  931-648-9998

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Smyrna Public Library
This house, now a private residence, was built in the mid-1800s, and was inherited in the 1920s by Frances Neel Cheney, a grand-niece of Sam Davis, after the death of her aunt, Lizzie Davis Tucker. Frances (known as "Fannie") was a professor at Peabody College, and her husband, Brainard "Lon" Cheney, had a long and interesting career as a writer. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Smyrna, TN
Phone:  615-459-4884

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Soldier in Grey
Dedicated on April 6, 1905, on the 43rd anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh. The hand-chiseled granite monument stands guard on the courthouse lawn at the center of Historic Court Square. ...more

Region:  Northwest
City:  Dyersburg, TN
Phone:  731-286-7800

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Southeast Tennessee Civil War Trail
Southeast Tennessee's Civil War Trails, Fighting for the Rails brochure provides a designated path for southeast Tennessee travelers to follow as they explore sites associated with the American Civil War in Tennessee. The brochure has 47 sites and covers 10 counties. ...more

Region:  Chattanooga & Southeast
City:  Chattanooga, TN
Phone:  (423) 424-4267

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Spring Hill Battlefield
Interpretative walking trail at site of one of the most controversial events of the Civil War. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Spring Hill, TN
Phone:  931-486-9037

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St. John Milling Company
Tennessee's oldest business, St. John Mill, has been operating for more than 200 years. ...more

Region:  Northeast
City:  Watauga, TN
Phone:  423-928-5841

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String Town
In the 1890s, this area south of The Old Mill was called “String Town” because several houses were strung together in a row along the riverbank. Two original houses remain. ...more

Region:  Smoky Mountains
City:  Pigeon Forge, TN
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