Monuments & Museums
Weave your way through Tennessee’s colorful tapestry of American history with a visit to any one of its fascinating monuments and museums.
Stroll through the massive collections at the Tennessee State Museum and take a journey into Tennessee’s legendary past. Or, wind your way through a museum dedicated to your personal interest--the Casey Jones Railroad Museum, Chucalissa Archaeological Museum and the Stax Museum to name just a few.
Newbury House at Historic Rugby
Authentically restored 1880 boarding house in rural National Register Village. Fireplaces and antiques. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Rugby, TN
Phone: 423-628-2441
Norris Dam State Park
This 4,038-acre park, located on the Norris Reservoir, began in 1933 as the first Tennessee Valley Authority project. Miles of trails lead hikers through deeply forested valleys and ridges. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Lake City, TN
Phone: 865-426-7461
Old Stone Fort
Old Stone Fort is a special type of Native American site, a hilltop ceremonial enclosure begun 2000 years ago and used at least through the fifth century. It has been called the most spectacularly sited sacred area of its period in the United States. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Manchester, TN
Phone: (931) 723-5073
Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park
Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park preserves the site of the largest the largest Middle Woodland Moundbuilder site in the country and the second largest prehistoric mound in North America. The ceremonial site includes a mound complex of more than 400 acres with unique earthworks dating to about 1-500 A. ...more
Region: Southwest
City: Pinson, TN
Phone: (731) 988-5614
Pioneer Hall Museum
Built between the years of 1887 and 1889, Pioneer Hall
housed the first dormitory for the Pleasant Hill Academy, a mission school established in the 1884 to educate “mountain boys and
girls in Christian education. ” So important was Pioneer Hall, it was the first building in the county to be placed on the National Historic Register. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: Pleasant Hill, TN
Phone: 931-277-5313
Pittman Center Heritage Museum
The community of Pittman Center had a strong desire to showcase its cultural heritage, and out of that desire came the Pittman Center Heritage Museum, located in the new Pittman Center Elementary School. The motto for the museum is “heritage is that which we have received from our ancestors and are obligated to pass on,” and the museum passes that heritage along through artifacts, archives and local stories on display. ...more
Region: Smoky Mountains
City: Gatlinburg, TN
Phone: 865-436-5499
Radnor Lake State Park
Radnor Lake State Park provides scenic, biological, geological and recreational opportunities not found in other metropolitan areas of Nashville's size.
L&N Railroad Company impounded Radnor Lake in 1914 to provide water for its steam engines, and intended to use the area as a hunting preserve for company executives. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
Phone: 615-373-3467
Red Clay State Historic Park
Red Clay was the last seat of Cherokee government before the tribe's forced removal on the Trail of Tears. The spring on site supplied water during council meetings of chiefs. ...more
Region: Chattanooga & Southeast
City: Cleveland, TN
Phone: (423) 478-0339
Reelfoot Lake State Park
The earth cracked, the river flowed backward and a dramatic, new landscaped took shape. The New Madrid Earthquakes of December 1811 through February 1812 caused soil liquification, warping, landslides, fissuring and ejections that forever changed the northwest corner of Tennessee. ...more
Region: Northwest
City: Tiptonville, TN
Phone: 731-253-8003
Rice 18th Century Gristmill
The Rice Family operated the mill in Union County from 1798 - 1935 when TVA moved it to Norris Dam. During the summer the mill grinds cornmeal. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Lake City, TN
Phone: 865-494-0720
Roan Mountain State Park
Daniel Boone was among the longhunters who traveled the Appalachian Mountains to hunt and trade. Legend says that he had to leave behind his ailing red horse on the peak of the mountain. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Roan Mountain, TN
Phone: (423) 772-0190
Rogersville Historic District
National Register Historic district referred to as "Tennessee's largest collection of Federal-type architecture," dating from 1824. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Rogersville, TN
Phone: 423-272-2186
Rose Center
Rose Center is housed in a National Register of Historic Places building. Built in 1892 as the first public school in Morristown, Rose School was active until 1975. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Morristown, TN
Phone: 423-581-4330
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
Take a journey into Tennessee's rich history and heritage on the Old Tennessee Trail. Over eighty points of interest take you from...
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