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Exploring Tennessee

The Field Trip Guide

by John Notgrass

Exploring Tennessee: The Field Trip Guide by John Notgrass ISBN 1-933410-06-X Exploring Tennessee Curriculum Package (Three Volumes) ISBN 1-933410-07-8

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Exploring Tennessee

The Field Trip Guide Table of Contents

How to Use Field Trip Guide v

County Field Trip Guide 1

Suggested Field Trips for Each Unit of the Curriculum 131

The Subject Guide 141 The Arts 141 Religion 144 Culture 145 Sports 146 History 147 Nature, Science, and Technology 149

Annual Events 155

Tennessee Information Sources - Websites and Offices 167

iii iv How to Use the Field Trip Guide

We recommend taking as many field trips as possible to enhance your study of Tennessee History. In fact, we recommend taking field trips for many school subjects. The Field Trip Guide is an extensive listing of places to go and things to do in all of Tennessee’s 95 counties. You can use it while you study Exploring Tennessee and every year you homeschool. It includes five sections:

1. The County Field Trip Guide. This first section includes information about field trips in each of Tennessee’s 95 counties. It provides descriptions, addresses, and phone numbers for sites in each county. Each county listing has a state map with that county filled in to help you orient yourself.

2. Suggested Field Trips for Each Unit of Exploring Tennessee. Suggested field trips are listed for each of the thirty units of Exploring Tennessee. You will find the names of field trip sites and the counties in which they are located. Go back to the County Field Trip Guide to find descriptions, addresses, and phone numbers for the sites you would like to visit.

3. The Subject Guide. Look in this section for a list of field trips in various subject areas, such as the arts, science and technology, sports, music, etc. This guide can be used every year you home school, because field trips are listed in many subject areas. This section includes a list of places and the counties in which they are located. Go back to the County Field Trip Guide to find descriptions, addresses, and phone numbers for the sites you would like to visit.

4. Annual Events Guide. Find living history demonstrations, music festivals, and other educational events held annually across the state. These are listed by month or by season. At the beginning of each season or each month look in the guide to see what events your family would like to attend. This section includes a list of places and the counties in which they are located. Go back to the County Field Trip Guide to find descriptions, addresses, and phone numbers for the sites you would like to visit.

5. Tennessee Information Sources. Websites and offices with Tennessee information.

v Start Locally

Perhaps you would like to begin by visiting the sites in your own county and then visiting sites in the counties near you. When you are visiting another part of the state, obtain a Tennessee road map that includes counties. Look at your route. See what counties touch or are near your route. Check the County Field Trip Guide section to see what sites are in the area. Check the Annual Events Guide to see if any special events are taking place there.

Call Ahead

We have tried to make the guide user-friendly and accurate. However, schedules and phone numbers do change. We suggest that you always call before you go. We also recommend that when you call, you ask workers at the site to tell you about what is available there so that you can be sure it is the kind of field trip you have in mind. We have provided web links for many of the listings. Please use discretion as you surf the web. We are not responsible for the content of these sites or of sites to which they link. Keep your anti-virus software up-to-date!

Our Sources

The Field Trip Guide was developed primarily from information furnished by County Chambers of Commerce and Departments of Tourism and Economic Development. These organizations were kind and generous in providing information and encouragement for this project. We encourage you to visit or call the local Chamber of Commerce or government agency that provides county information. They can provide updated information to help you make the most of your visit to a different part of the state.

vi Tennessee Cities and Towns

Use this chart to determine the county in which a certain city or town is located.

City County City County City County Adams Robertson Cleveland Bradley Gallatin Sumner Adamsville McNairy Clifton Wayne Gallaway Fayette Alamo Crockett Clinton Anderson Garland Tipton Alcoa Blount Coalmont Grundy Gates Lauderdale Alexandria DeKalb Collegedale Hamilton Gatlinburg Sevier Algood Putnam Collierville Shelby Germantown Shelby Allardt Fentress Collinwood Wayne Gibson Gibson Altamont Grundy Columbia Maury Gilt Edge Tipton Ardmore Giles Cookeville Putnam Gleason Weakley Arlington Shelby Copperhill Polk Goodlettsville Davidson, Sumner Ashland City Cheatham Cornersville Marshall Gordonsville Smith Athens McMinn Cottage Grove Henry Grand Junction Hardeman Atoka Tipton Covington Tipton Graysville Rhea Atwood Carroll Cowan Franklin Greenback Loudon Auburntown Cannon Crab Orchard Cumberland Greenbriar Robertson Baileyton Greene Cross Plains Robertson Greeneville Greene Baneberry Jefferson Crossville Cumberland Greenfield Weakley Bartlett Shelby Crump Hardin Gruetli-Laager Grundy Baxter Putnam Cumberland City Stewart Guys McNairy Beersheba Springs Grundy Cumberland Gap Claiborne Halls Lauderdale Bell Buckle Bedford Dandridge Jefferson Harriman Roane Belle Meade Davidson Dayton Rhea Hartsville Trousdale Bells Crockett Decatur Meigs Henderson Chester Benton Polk Decaturville Decatur Hendersonville Sumner Berry Hill Davidson Decherd Franklin Henning Lauderdale Bethel Springs McNairy Dickson Dickson Henry Henry Big Sandy Benton Dover Stewart Hickory Valley Hardeman Blaine Grainger Dowelltown DeKalb Hohenwald Lewis Bluff City Sullivan Doyle White Hollow Rock Carroll Bolivar Hardeman Dresden Weakley Hornbeak Obion Braden Fayette Ducktown Polk Hornsby Hardeman Bradford Gibson Dunlap Sequatchie Humboldt Gibson Brentwood Williamson Dyer Gibson Huntingdon Carroll Brighton Tipton Dyersburg Dyer Huntland Franklin Bristol Sullivan Eagleville Rutherford Huntsville Scott Brownsville Haywood East Ridge Hamilton Iron City Lawrence, Wayne Bruceton Carroll Eastview McNairy Jacksboro Campbell Bulls Gap Hawkins Elizabethton Carter Jackson Madison Burlison Tipton Elkton Giles Jamestown Fentress Burns Dickson Englewood McMinn Jasper Marion Byrdstown Pickett Enville Chester, McNairy Jefferson City Jefferson Calhoun McMinn Erin Houston Jellico Campbell Camden Benton Erwin Unicoi Johnson City Washington, Carter Carthage Smith Estill Springs Franklin Jonesborough Washington Caryville Campbell Ethridge Lawrence Kenton Gibson, Obion Cedar Hill Robertson Etowah McMinn Kimball Marion Celina Clay Fairview Williamson Kingsport Hawkins, Sullivan Centertown Warren Farragut Knox Kingston Roane Centerville Hickman Fayetteville Lincoln Kingston Springs Cheatham Chapel Hill Marshall Finger McNairy Knoxville Knox Charleston Bradley Forest Hills Davidson Lafayette Macon Charlotte Dickson Franklin Williamson LaFollette Campbell Chattanooga Hamilton Friendship Crockett LaGrange Fayette Church Hill Hawkins Friendsville Blount Lake City Anderson, Campbell Clarksburg Carroll Gadsden Crockett Lakeland Shelby Clarksville Montgomery Gainesboro Jackson Lakesite Hamilton

vii City County City County City County Lakewood Davidson New Tazewell Claiborne Slayden Dickson LaVergne Rutherford Niota McMinn Smithville DeKalb Lawrenceburg Lawrence Normandy Bedford Smyrna Rutherford Lebanon Wilson Norris Anderson Sneedville Hancock Lenoir City Loudon Oakdale Morgan Soddy-Daisy Hamilton Lewisburg Marshall Oak Hill Davidson Somerville Fayette Lexington Henderson Oakland Fayette South Carthage Smith Liberty DeKalb Oak Ridge Anderson, Roane South Fulton Obion Linden Perry Obion Obion South Pittsburg Marion Livingston Overton Oliver Springs Anderson, Roane, Morgan Sparta White Lobelville Perry Oneida Scott Spencer Van Buren Lookout Mtn. Hamilton Orlinda Robertson Spring City Rhea Loretto Lawrence Orme Marion Springfield Robertson Loudon Loudon Palmer Grundy Spring Hill Maury, Williamson Louisville Blount Paris Henry Stanton Haywood Luttrell Union Parker’s Crossroads Henderson Stantonville McNairy Lynchburg Moore Parrottsville Cocke Sunbright Morgan Lynnville Giles Parsons Decatur Surgoinsville Hawkins McEwen Humphreys Pegram Cheatham Sweetwater Monroe McKenzie Carroll, Weakley, Henry Petersburg Lincoln, Marshall Tazewell Claiborne McLemoresville Carroll Philadelphia Loudon Tellico Plains Monroe McMinnville Warren Pigeon Forge Sevier Tennessee Ridge Houston Madisonville Monroe Pikeville Bledsoe Thompson’s Station Williamson Manchester Coffee Piperton Fayette Tiptonville Lake Martin Weakley Pittman Center Sevier Toone Hardeman Maryville Blount Plainview Union Townsend Blount Mason Tipton Pleasant Hill Cumberland Tracy City Grundy Maury City Crockett Portland Sumner Trenton Gibson Maynardville Union Powell’s Crossroads Marion Trezevant Carroll Medina Gibson Pulaski Giles Trimble Dyer, Obion Medon Madison Puryear Henry Troy Obion Memphis Shelby Ramer McNairy Tullahoma Coffee, Franklin Michie McNairy Red Bank Hamilton Tusculum Greene Middleton Hardeman Red Boiling Springs Macon Union City Obion Milan Gibson Ridgely Lake Vanleer Dickson Milledgeville Chester, Hardin, McNairy Ridgeside Hamilton Viola Warren Millersville Sumner Ridgetop Robertson, Davidson Vonore Monroe Millington Shelby Ripley Lauderdale Walden Hamilton Minor Hill Giles Rives Obion Wartburg Morgan Mitchellville Sumner Rockford Blount Wartrace Bedford Monteagle Marion, Grundy Rockwood Roane Watauga Carter Monterey Putnam Rogersville Hawkins Watertown Wilson Morrison Warren Rossville Fayette Waverly Humphreys Morristown Hamblen Rutherford Gibson Waynesboro Wayne Moscow Fayette Rutledge Grainger Westmoreland Sumner Mosheim Greene St. Joseph Lawrence White Bluff Dickson Mount Carmel Hawkins Saltillo Hardin White House Sumner, Robertson Mount Juliet Wilson Samburg Obion White Pine Jefferson Mount Pleasant Maury Sardis Henderson Whiteville Hardeman Mountain City Johnson Salisbury Hardeman Whitwell Marion Munford Tipton Savannah Hardin Williston Fayette Murfreesboro Rutherford Scott’s Hill Henderson, Decatur Winchester Franklin Nashville Davidson Selmer McNairy Winfield Scott Newbern Dyer Sevierville Sevier Woodbury Cannon New Hope Marion Sharon Weakley Woodland Mills Obion New Johnsonville Humphreys Shelbyville Bedford Yorkville Gibson New Market Jefferson Signal Mountain Hamilton Newport Cocke Silerton Hardeman, Chester

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Tennessee Counties

Tennessee Blue Book 1999-2000 Millennium Edition Map from

ix THE COUNTY FIELD TRIP GUIDE

The city listed by each county name is the county seat. The map shows the location of that county.

ANDERSON COUNTY - CLINTON

Events Tennessee Fall Homecoming Bull Run Steam Plant Second full weekend One of the world’s largest and most April Music, singing, crafts, and efficient coal-fired generating demonstrations of rural, pioneer, plants. Includes a visitors' lobby Red Bud Festival and mountain activities such as and observation balcony. Oliver Springs, TN molasses making, sheep herding, Edgemoor Road Phone: 800-524-3602 or 865-457-4542 saw milling, and apple butter Clinton, TN 37716

May making. Phone: 865-457-5135

Museum of Appalachia Mayfest Norris, TN Caleb Crosby Threshing Barn Contains original machinery and Oak Ridge, TN Phone: 865-494-0514 or 865-494-7680 Phone: 865-481-1321 antique farm tools including a pea December shucker, cotton planter, and June wooden treadmill. Free admission. Christmas in Old Appalachia Clear Creek Road Spring Heritage Festival Museum of Appalachia Norris, TN Cultural demonstrations, bluegrass Norris, TN Phone: 865-426-7461 music, nature presentations, and Phone: 865-494-0514 or 865-494-7680 tours of the Lenoir Museum. Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge Norris Dam State Park Places Hands-on exhibits about Lake City, TN Appalachian cultural heritage, the

Phone: 865-426-7461 American Museum of arts, natural science, and history. Website: Science and Energy 461 West Outer Drive www.state.tn.us/environment/ One of the world’s largest energy P.O. Box 3066 parks/norris/events.htm exhibitions, with interactive Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Phone: 865-482-1074 or 865-482-1075 July displays, live demonstrations, computers, and films. One exhibit Website: www.newsite.com/cmor/ July 4th Celebration and describes the Manhattan Project Coal Creek Miner’s Museum Anvil Shoot and the development of Oak Ridge. Features photographs and artifacts Old-time activities such as sassafras Ask about tours of the Oak Ridge from the area’s coal mining days. tea brewing, sheep herding, and rail National Laboratory and the Y-12 216 North Main Street splitting, plus music and the plant. Free admission. Lake City, TN "shooting" of an anvil. 300 South Tulane Avenue Phone: 865-426-7914 Museum of Appalachia Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Norris, TN Phone: 865-576-3200 Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery Phone: 865-494-0514 or 865-494-7680 Fax: 865-576-3204 A 100-acre complex operated by

E-mail: [email protected] the Tennessee Wildlife Resource October Website: www.amse.org Agency. Fall Color Boat Trips 1207 Charles Seivers Boulevard Norris Dam State Park Appalachian Arts Craft Shop Clinton, TN 37716 Local weavers, quilters, potters, Lake City, TN Phone: 865-457-5135 Phone: 865-426-7461 and other crafters at work. Free East Tennessee Technology Website: admission. Park Overlook www.state.tn.us/environment/ Highway 61 P.O. Box 608 The former K-25 site is visible from parks/norris/events.htm Norris, TN 37828 the overlook, and exhibits present a Phone: 865-494-9854 timeline of area history. Free Coal Miners Reunion E-mail: [email protected] admission. Coal Miners Park Website: www.korrnet.org/comcraft Highway 58 Oliver Springs, TN Oak Ridge, TN Phone: 800-382-6938 or 865-574-4160 E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 1 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Greenwich Village Mall Melton Lake Drive Greenway Oak Ridge National Laboratory Built in the 1940s to provide Walking, bicycling, and skating ORNL is the nation’s largest and recreation for Manhattan Project trail along Melton Hill Lake. Free most diverse energy research and workers, this mall includes studios admission. development institution. It contains and galleries featuring artists in Oak Ridge, TN the Graphite Reactor, the world’s residence. Phone: 800-553-7830 or 865-482-7821 first nuclear reactor to operate 109 Towne Road continuously. Free admission. Museum of Appalachia Oak Ridge, TN Bethel Valley Road A 65-acre museum farm and village P.O. Box 2008 Hill Cave complex containing more than 30 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Norris Dam State Park authentic log cabins and other Phone: 865-574-4163 Lake City, TN buildings, thousands of artifacts, E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 865-426-7461 live animals, and the Appalachian

Website: www.ornl.gov Hall of Fame. International Friendship Bell Highway 61 Oak Ridge Self-Guided Built in honor of Manhattan Norris, TN 37828 Driving Tour Project workers, this marker Phone: 865-494-0514 or 865-494-7680 Features sites related to the expresses hope for peace, Manhattan Project and the friendship, and understanding. New Bethel Church development of Oak Ridge. Free Free admission. Interpretive Center brochure. Badger Avenue This church building has been Phone: 800-553-7830 or 865-482-7821 Oak Ridge, TN converted into a museum that Phone: 865-482-8450 or 865-425-3450 contains pictures and mementos of Oak Ridge the Old Bethel community. Free Wildlife Management Area Jackson Square Historic Park admission. Phone: 865-574-8204 The original downtown of Oak Bethel Valley Road Ridge, featuring the Emma Spray Oak Ridge, TN Oliver Springs Railroad Depot Gardens and kiosks with photos of This 1890s Southern Railway Phone: 865-574-4160 the town’s early days. Free depot now serves as a museum and admission. Norris Dam State Park library. The site includes a East Tennessee Avenue Norris Dam was the first Southern caboose, an old hotel Oak Ridge, TN Tennessee Valley Authority dam, ticket booth, a horse-drawn fire Phone: 865-482-8450 constructed between 1933 and wagon from the early 1900s, and a 1936. 1950 firetruck. James-Ben Gallery 125 Village Green Circle 610 Walker Avenue Folk art, crafts, glass, fiber, papier Lake City, TN 37769-5932 Oliver Springs, TN mache, and pottery by Tennessee Phone: 865-426-7461 Phone: 865-435-2509 artists. Website: 235-A Jackson Square www.state.tn.us/environment/ Secret City Oak Ridge, TN Scenic Excursion Train parks/norris/ Phone: 865-482-2500 Ride a 1940s railroad car on a 12- Fax: 865-482-4827 Oak Ridge Community Art mile trip through the K-25 site, a E-mail: [email protected] Center & Museum of Fine Arts once-secret part of Oak Ridge. Contains a permanent collection of East Tennessee Technology Park Lenoir Pioneer Museum contemporary international artists, Highway 58 Features a working gristmill built plus changing exhibits of local and Oak Ridge, TN in 1798, a threshing barn, and regional artists. Free admission. Phone: 800-887-3429 or 865-241-2140 thousands of early American items 201 Badger Avenue Website: such as kerosene lamps, blacksmith P.O. Box 105 www.techscribes.com/sarm/sarm.htm anvils, and furniture. Free Oak Ridge, TN 37831 admission. University of Tennessee Arboretum Phone: 865-482-1441 or 865-482-2663 Norris Dam State Park A 250-acre forestry experiment 2121 Norris Freeway Oak Ridge Community Playhouse station with nature trails. Free Phone: 865-494-9688 Established in 1943, this theater admission. Website: produces several shows each year. 901 Kerr Hollow Road www.state.tn.us/environment/ 227 Broadway Oak Ridge, TN parks/norris/museum.htm Oak Ridge, TN Phone: 865-483-3571

Phone: 865-482-9999 E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 2 © 2003 The Notgrass Company The Upstairs Gallery at the Mall Anderson County Oak Ridge Cooperative gallery of regional Tourism Council Chamber of Commerce artists, including pottery, jewelry, 1196 Blockhouse Valley Road 1400 Oak Ridge Turnpike photography, painting, quilting, P.O. Box 147 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 and more. Free admission. Clinton, TN 37717 Phone: 865-481-1321 333 East Main Street Phone: 800-524-3602 or 865-457-4542 Fax: 865-483-1678 Oak Ridge, TN E-mail: Website: www.orcc.org Phone: 865-220-1717 [email protected] Oak Ridge Convention and Website: www.yallcome.org Visitors Bureau Visitor Information Arts Council of Oak Ridge 302 South Tulane Avenue The Council represents the Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6726 Anderson County Community Playhouse, Community Phone: 800-887-3429 or 865-482-7821 Chamber of Commerce Band, Civic Ballet, Civic Music Fax: 865-481-3543 245 North Main Street #200 Association, Community Orchestra, E-mail: [email protected] Clinton, TN 37716 and Tennessee Mountain Writers. Website: www.visit-or.org Phone: 865-457-2559 Phone: 865-482-4432 Fax: 865-457-8969 Website: www.korrnet.org/orarts E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.korrnet.org/accc

BEDFORD COUNTY - SHELBYVILLE

June Events Places Bell Buckle Flea Market March Bell Buckle Third Saturday This 19th-century village is a Bell Buckle, TN Daffodil Day center for arts and crafts, antiques Third Saturday Moon Pie Festival and collectibles, quilts, and Bell Buckle, TN Third Saturday numerous other shops. It also May Bell Buckle, TN contains preserved and restored Victorian houses and churches. Historic Bell Buckle July Phone: 931-389-9371 Homecoming Great Celebration Mule Show E-mail: [email protected] Third Saturday Second week Bell Buckle, TN Bell Buckle Crafts Shelbyville, TN Pottery-making demonstrations Spring Fun Show Country Fair most days. Free admission. Held for three nights, ending on Third Saturday Railroad Square the Saturday night before Bell Buckle, TN Bell Buckle, TN Memorial Day, this show offers Phone: 931-389-9371 fans a sneak preview of the horses September Blockade Runner which will perform at the Civil War Sutlery Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration later in the summer. Original and reproduction Civil National Celebration Shelbyville, TN War items for sale, including Held for 10 days, ending on the Phone: 931-684-5915 uniforms, tents, muskets, leather, Saturday night before Labor Day, Fax: 931-684-5949 ladies dresses, hoops, and more. this showcase and competition E-mail: [email protected] Free admission. attracts nearly 200,000 visitors. Website: www.twhnc.com 1027 Bell Buckle/Wartrace Road Hundreds of riders and their horses Wartrace, TN 37183 compete for prizes and trophies. Phone: 931-389-6294 Shelbyville, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-684-5915 Website: www.blockaderunner.com Fax: 931-684-5949 E-mail: [email protected] Ledford Mill and Museum Website: www.twhnc.com This 1884 gristmill has been renovated into a bed & breakfast. Quilt Walk An 18th- and 19th-century tool Third Saturday in September museum is next door and open by Bell Buckle, TN appointment.

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 3 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Route 2, Box 152B Tennessee Walking Horse Museum Webb School Wartrace, TN 37183 Interactive exhibits detail the William Webb established this Phone: 931-455-2546 or 931-455-1935 history of this horse breed and the preparatory school about 125 years Website: www.cyber-time.com/ National Tennessee Walking Horse ago. The Junior Room Museum is ledfordmill/ Celebration. decorated as a classroom of Calsonic Arena yesteryear. Louvin Brothers Museum 721 Whitthorne Street Bell Buckle, TN Exhibits and memorabilia from the Shelbyville, TN 37160 Phone: 931-389-6003 careers of the Grand Ole Opry Phone: 931-684-5915 or 931-684-0314 stars The Louvin Brothers. Charlie Walking Horse Hotel & Shops and Betty Louvin are the Tullahoma Campaign Driving Tour Built in 1917. proprietors. Between June 23 and July 4 of 101 Spring Street Bell Buckle, TN 1863, Union forces battled the Wartrace, TN Phone: 931-389-9655 Confederates back toward Phone: 931-389-7050 Chattanooga. This 130-mile Normandy Fish Hatchery driving tour highlights sites in 344 Huffman Road Coffee, Bedford, Franklin, and Visitor Information Normandy, TN Grundy counties that relate to the Phone: 931-857-3417 Shelbyville-Bedford County conflict. The tour begins in Beech Normandy Grove, Coffee County, and ends in Chamber of Commerce Wildlife Management Area Monteagle, Grundy County. Free 100 North Cannon Boulevard Shelbyville, TN 37160 Phone: 615-781-6622 brochure. Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Phone: 888-662-2525 or 931-684-3482 E-mail: [email protected] or Fax: 931-684-3483 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cyber-time.com/ Website: www.shelbyvilletn.com

tnbkrds/default.htm Tennessee's Backroads Heritage Tennessee Walking Horse and An organization composed of Eastern Railroad Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, and One of the oldest branch lines in Moore Counties, and the the state is maintained between Cumberland Mountain area Shelbyville and Wartrace. Tickets spreading from Monteagle to for the 45-minute trip are available Beersheba Springs. by reservation only. Private groups 300 South Jackson Street can book the train as well. Tullahoma, TN 37388 112 East Side Square Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Shelbyville, TN E-mail: [email protected] or Phone: 931-695-5066 or 931-684-6223 [email protected] Website: www.cyber-time.com/ tnbkrds/default.htm

BENTON COUNTY - CAMDEN

July Website: Events Summer Song Festival www.state.tn.us/environment/ April July 4th weekend parks/forrest/events.htm Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park Old Time Bluegrass & Eva Beach, TN November Fiddler's Championship Phone: 731-584-6356 Black Powder Competition Third Saturday Held by the North-South Skirmish Holladay, TN September Association. Phone: 731-584-3145 or 731-584-8395 Tennessee River Folklife & Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park May Music Festival Eva, TN Historical reenactments, games, Phone: 731-584-6356 Spring Festival food, live music, and wildlife Website: Saturday before Memorial Day demonstrations. Free admission. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Big Sandy, TN Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park parks/forrest/events.htm Phone: 731-593-3213 Eva, TN

Phone: 731-584-6356 or 731-584-8395 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 4 © 2003 The Notgrass Company December Lick Creek Trail of Tears National Historic Wildlife Management Area Trail Camden Christmas Extravaganza Phone: 731-423-5725 In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Holiday activities, including a tour Cherokees were forced to leave of homes. Free admission. Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park their homes in the southeastern Camden, TN Dedicated to the Confederate states and move to the territory Phone: 731-584-8395 cavalry general Nathan Bedford that would become Oklahoma. Forrest in 1929. The park features Today highways that closely follow information on the 1864 Battle of Places the trail are marked with official Johnsonville and the Tennessee markers, and historic sites lie along Big Sandy Trail Ride River Folklife Interpretive Center. the trail. Contact the National Park Guided horse rides. Bring your own The Center features the life, ways, Service and the local Chamber of horse. Located in Big Sandy, TN. and customs of people on the Commerce for specific information. c/o Wild J Ranch Adventures Tennessee River. Free admission. Long Distance Trails 2031 Quarry Road 1825 Pilot Knob Road Group Office, Santa Fe Mt. Juliet, TN 37122 Eva, TN 38333 National Park Service Phone: 731-584-6356 or 731-584-2128 Phone: 800-215-6693 or 931-964-4038 P.O. Box 728 Website: Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Big Sandy www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 505-988-6888 Wildlife Management Area parks/forrest/ E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 731-423-5725 Natchez Trace Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Birdsong Resort Wildlife Management Area tearsnht.html

This resort, marina, and Phone: 731-986-5351 or 731-423-5725 campground features a fresh water Visitor Information pearl farm and a pearl jewelry New Hope Wildlife Management Area showroom/museum. Camden/Benton County 255 Marina Road Phone: 731-584-4048 Chamber of Commerce Camden, TN 38320-9699 Patsy Cline Memorial 202 West Main Street Phone: 800-225-7469 or 731-584-7880 This monument dedicated to Patsy Camden, TN 38320 E-mail: [email protected] Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Phone: 877-804-6657 or Website: www.birdsongresort.com Hawkins, and Randy Hughes 731-584-8395

Birdsong Trail Ride stands near the site where their Fax: 731-584-5544 Horse and hay rides. plane crashed in 1963. E-mail: [email protected] 3700 Old Highway 69 Mount Carmel Road Website: Camden, TN 38320 Phone: 731-584-8395 www.bentoncountynet.com

Phone: 731-584-9206 Shipwreck of the Tennessee River The Tennessee River Runs

Benton-Houston Ferry A turn-of-the-century derrick boat Through It One of the few ferry boats left in brought up from the Tennessee Highlights the scenic, cultural, Tennessee. Connects Benton and River. It is a wooden barge 30 feet historic, and recreational Houston Counties across the wide and 100 feet long. Free attractions and events around the Tennessee River. admission. Tennessee River. Free brochure. Highway 147 Birdsong Resort Paris-Henry County Chamber of Phone: 877-804-6657 or 731-584-8395 Camden, TN Commerce 2508 East Wood Street E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 800-225-7469 or 731-584-7880 E-mail: [email protected] Paris, TN 38242 Camden Phone: 800-345-1103 Wildlife Management Area Thornton Trading Company Phone: 731-423-5725 Horse trails. Bring your own horse. Route 1, Box 30 Harmon Creek Holladay, TN 38341 Wildlife Management Area Phone: 731-584-3310 Phone: 731-423-5725 Fax: 731-584-1841

Kentucky Lake Year-round water recreation. Phone: 731-584-8395

Fall Colors Weekend Oren Wooden & Events Bicycle tours of the park, walks, Family Apple House May hikes, and slide shows. Henry Wooden planted an orchard Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park here in the early 1950s. The Apple Lady Slipper Weekend Pikeville, TN House features foods and apple Orchids, mountain laurel, and pink Phone: 423-881-5708 or 423-881-5298 souvenirs. and yellow lady slippers. Website: Route 50, Box 50C Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park www.state.tn.us/environment/ Pikeville, TN Pikeville, TN parks/fallcrek/events.htm Phone: 423-447-6376 Phone: 423-881-5708 or 423-881-5298 Website: Trail of Tears www.state.tn.us/environment/ Places National Historic Trail parks/fallcrek/events.htm In 1838 and 1839, thousands of BCHS Community Theatre Cherokees were forced to leave June 521 South Main their homes in the southeastern Pikeville, TN Spring Horse Show states and move to the territory Phone: 423-447-2791 that would become Oklahoma. Bledsoe-Pikeville Agricultural Complex Bridgman House Today highways that closely follow Pikeville, TN Built in the early 1800s. the trail are marked with official Phone: 423-447-2791 106 East Spring Street markers, and historic sites lie along

Pikeville, TN the trail. Contact the National Park Nine Mile Bluegrass Festival Service and the local Chamber of Pikeville, TN Catherine's Garden Commerce for specific information. Phone: 423-533-2455 Restored site of the "Old Town Long Distance Trails Spring" that supplied Pikeville with Group Office, Santa Fe August water for many years. National Park Service 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Upper East Valley Road P.O. Box 728 Outdoor Sale Pikeville, TN Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Phone: 505-988-6888 Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Fall Creek Falls, at 256-feet high, is Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Website: the highest waterfall in the United tearsnht.html www.jamestowntn.org/worlds.htm States east of the Rocky

September Mountains. Three other waterfalls decorate the park. The nature Visitor Information Mountaineer Folk Festival center has natural and cultural Handmade crafts, traditional history exhibits. Bledsoe County Chamber of mountain music, and pioneer skills Route 3, Box 300 Commerce demonstrations. Pikeville, TN 37367 P.O. Box 205 Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Phone: 423-881-5298 Pikeville, TN 37367 Pikeville, TN Website: Phone: 423-447-2791 Phone: 423-881-5708 or 423-881-5298 www.state.tn.us/environment/ E-mail: [email protected] Website: parks/fallcrek/ Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.pikeville-bledsoe.com parks/fallcrek/events.htm

October

Wild Foods Day Field trips point out edible wild plants, and workshops teach the preparation of wild meats and breads. Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Pikeville, TN Phone: 423-881-5708 or 423-881-5298 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/fallcrek/events.htm

Cades Cove Visitors Center & Hedgewood Gardens Events Museum About 500 species of wildflowers, Spring This center sits among preserved trees, shrubs, and vines. Special historic buildings representing an programs available. British Car Show isolated farming community of the 411 Bethel Church Road Townsend, TN 1800s. Free admission. Townsend, TN Phone: 423-448-2237 Great Smoky Mountain National Park Phone: 865-984-2052

10042 Campground Drive April K Collection of Catherine Girard Townsend, TN 37882 Fine art gallery, including florals, Dogwood Arts Festival Phone: 865-448-2472 or 865-448-4108 Over 50 events celebrate spring wildlife, and mountain scenery. and dogwoods. Free admission. Chilhowee Mountain Free admission. Maryville, TN Wildlife Management Area 7720 Chestnut Hill Road

Phone: 865-983-2241 Phone: 423-587-7037 Townsend, TN

Phone: 865-448-6141 May Davy Crockett Riding Stables Guided horse rides. Kyker Bottoms Refuge Townsend Spring Festival and 505 Old Cades Cove Road Wildlife Management Area Old Timers Day P.O. Box 194 Phone: 423-587-7037 Music, old-fashioned games, Townsend, TN 37882. Lee Roberson Gallery antique engine and tractor show, Phone: 865-448-6411 storytelling, and nature walks. A cluster of restored log structures Free admission. Earthtide Gallery houses the work of Lee Roberson, a Townsend, TN Features local and regional artwork, descendant of Cades Cove settlers Phone: 800-525-6834 or 865-448-6134 and classes and workshops in and Cherokees. Free admission. traditional mountain skills. 758 Wears Valley Road September 7645 Lamar Alexander Parkway Townsend, TN

Townsend, TN Phone: 800-423-7341 or 865-448-2365 Country Fair Phone: 865-448-1106 Sam Houston Schoolhouse Little River Railroad and E-mail: [email protected] Maryville, TN Lumber Company Museum Phone: 865-983-1550 Foothills A renovated depot, a restored Wildlife Management Area engine, and interpretive displays. Townsend Heritage Festival and Phone: 423-587-7037 Free admission. Old Timers Day 7747 East Lamar Alexander Townsend, TN Great Smoky Mountains Parkway Phone: 800-525-6834 or 865-448-6134 National Park P.O. Box 211 This park covers land in Tennessee Townsend, TN 37882 and North Carolina. The visitor Phone: 423-448-2211 Places center near Gatlinburg has natural history exhibits; the visitor center Porter Brakebill Farm Appalachian Trail near Cherokee, NC, has exhibits on Bed & Breakfast Appalachian Trail Conference mountain life in the late 1800s and a One hundred acres of horse riding 799 Washington Street collection of farm buildings; and the area surround a home built around P.O. Box 807 visitor center near Townsend, TN, 1856. Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 sits among preserved 19th-century 803 Martin Mill Pike Phone: 304-535-6331 historic buildings. The park has Rockford, TN 37853 Fax: 304-535-2667 more than 800 miles of trails, and Phone: 865-982-0200 Website: www.atconf.org numerous special events occur Cades Cove Riding Stables during the year. Sam Houston Schoolhouse Guided horse, carriage, and hay rides. 107 Park Headquarters Road Sam Houston taught in this 1794 4035 East Lamar Alexander Gatlinburg, TN 37738 schoolhouse in 1812, when he was Parkway Phone: 865-436-1200 18. The site includes a visitor Walland, TN Website: www.nps.gov/grsm/ center, museum, and gardens. Phone: 865-448-6286 3650 Sam Houston School Road

Maryville, TN 37804 Phone: 865-983-1550

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 7 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Smoky Mountain Bicycle Tours Tuckaleechee Caverns Visitor Information Guided and self-guided road and Onyx formations, waterfalls, and mountain bike tours. large rooms. Blount County Maryville, TN 825 Caverns Road Chamber of Commerce Phone: 800-746-7791 P.O. Box 381 201 South Washington Street E-mail: [email protected] Townsend, TN 37882 Maryville, TN 37804-5728

Phone: 865-448-2274 Phone: 865-983-2241 Thompson-Brown House Website: www.chamber.blount.tn.us Built in the early 1800s. Twin Valley Bed & Breakfast 309 South Washington Horse Ranch Smoky Mountain Convention & P.O. Box 4093 Guided horse rides. Visitors Bureau Maryville, TN 37802-4093 2848 Old Chilhowee Road 7906 East Lamar Alexander Phone: 423-983-7660 Walland, TN 37886 Parkway Phone: 865-984-0980 Townsend, TN 37882-4033 Website: Phone: 800-525-6834 or 865-448-6134 www.bbonline.com/tn/twinvalley/ E-mail:

[email protected] Website: www.smokymountains.org

BRADLEY COUNTY - CLEVELAND

December Cherokee Scenic Loop Tour Events Beginning and ending in Cleveland, 19th-Century Cherokee Christmas March this tour highlights natural and First Sunday historic sites in the area. Free Ocoee Story Fest A living history program showing brochure. Storytelling performances and a Cherokee family preparing for Phone: 800-472-6588 or 423-472-6587 workshops. and celebrating Christmas with E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 800-472-6588 or 423-472-6587 their black and white neighbors. Red Clay State Historical Park Chickamauga May Cleveland, TN Wildlife Management Area

Evening Shade Phone: 423-478-0339 Phone: 931-484-9571 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Friday nights Cleveland Creative Arts Guild Performances by area musicians. parks/redclay/events.htm Features the work of local artists, Free admission. writers, and actors. Cleveland, TN Places 805 20th Street Phone: 800-472-6588 or 423-472-6587 Cleveland, TN Apple Valley Orchard August Apple orchard, cider mill, and Phone: 423-476-5827

bakery. Free admission. Cleveland Downtown Cherokee Days of Recognition 351 Weese Road S.E. Historic Greenway First Saturday and Sunday Cleveland, TN Features historic downtown Cherokee crafts, food, storytelling, Phone: 423-472-3044 music, and dance. Free admission. buildings. Free brochure. Red Clay State Historical Park The Aquatic Wildlife Company 2145 Keith Street Cleveland, TN A 24,000-gallon mariculture facility Cleveland, TN Phone: 423-478-0339 dedicated to the conservation of the Phone: 423-472-6587 or 423-479-1000 area environment. Free admission. Website: Hair Conrad Cabin 5200 North Lee Highway www.state.tn.us/environment/ Built by the Cherokee man Hair Cleveland, TN parks/redclay/events.htm Conrad (or Tekahskeh in Cherokee) Phone: 423-559-9000 November around 1804. Cherokee Chieftain To visit, call owner, Beth Neil. Tellabration A carving by sculptor Peter Toth. Phone: 423-476-8942 Weekend before Thanksgiving Free admission. Lee University School of Music Participants around the world Johnston Park Hosts numerous musical and gather in their communities for a Cleveland, TN dramatic productions during the time of storytelling. Phone: 423-472-6587 Cleveland, TN year. Phone: 423-479-2476 or 423-344-7272 1120 North Ocoee Street E-mail: [email protected] Cleveland, TN Phone: 423-614-8000 Website: www.tellabration.org

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 8 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Museum Center at 5ive Points Red Clay State Historical Park Trail of Tears National Historic The River of Time exhibit shows In the mid-1800s, Cherokee leaders Trail how people have lived in the region met in this area to attempt to keep In 1838 and 1839, thousands of during seven periods of history. The their lands. The Federal Cherokees were forced to leave museum also features additional government told them to move, their homes in the southeastern exhibits, archives, and programs. and thus the "Trail of Tears" states and move to the territory 200 Inman Street East began. This park contains replicas that would become Oklahoma. Cleveland, TN 37311 of a Cherokee farmstead and Today highways that closely follow Phone: 423-339-5745 Council House. An interpretive the trail are marked with official Website: www.museumcenter.org center contains exhibits, artifacts, markers, and historic sites lie along and documents related to Cherokee the trail. Contact the National Park Primitive Settlement history and culture. Service and the local Chamber of A collection of restored log cabins 1140 Red Clay Park Road S.W. Commerce for specific information. furnished with household and farm Cleveland, TN 37311 Long Distance Trails items used by pioneer settlers. Phone: 423-478-0339 Group Office, Santa Fe 693 Kinser Road S.E. Website: National Park Service Cleveland, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ P.O. Box 728 Phone: 423-476-5096

parks/redclay/ Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Ocoee Players Phone: 505-988-6888 Performances at the Museum E-mail: [email protected] Center at 5ive Points. Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Phone: 423-339-5745 tearsnht.html

Visitor Information

Cleveland/Bradley County Convention and Visitors Bureau 2145 Keith Street P.O. Box 2275 Cleveland, TN 37320-2275 Phone: 800-472-6588 or 423-472-6587 Fax: 423-472-2019 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.clevelandchamber.com

CAMPBELL COUNTY - JACKSBORO

November Cove Lake State Park Events Hundreds of Canada Geese feed on Battle of Pine Mountain Bluegrass Get-Togethers the lakeshore in winter. Devil's Civil War Reenactment Monday nights Race Trace, a steep pinnacle, Daily battles, historical Bring your voice and instrument, provides a panoramic view. demonstrations, and more. or come to listen. 110 Cove Lake Lane Collins Industrial Park LakeView Inn Caryville, TN 37714 Caryville, TN Caryville, TN Phone: 423-566-9701 Phone: 423-566-0329 Phone: 423-562-9456 Fax: 423-566-9717 Website: October www.state.tn.us/environment/ Places Fall Fest parks/covelak/ Chuck Swan Bluegrass, classic car show, boat Indian Mountain State Park show, and more. Wildlife Management Area Phone: 423-278-3248 Developed on reclaimed strip mine Cove Lake State Park land. Caryville, TN Cove Creek Indian Mountain Road Phone: 423-566-9701 Wildlife Management Area Jellico, TN 37762 Website: Phone: 423-587-7037 Phone: 423-784-7958 www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/ Website: covelak/ www.state.tn.us/environment/

parks/indian/

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 9 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Norris Lake Jellico Tourism Office Visitor Information Phone: 423-566-0329 104 North Main Street Campbell County Jellico, TN 37762 Royal Blue Chamber of Commerce Phone: 423-784-3275 Wildlife Management Area P.O. Box 305 Phone: 423-566-8557 Jacksboro, TN 37757 Phone: 423-566-0329

Fax: 423-562-0535

E-mail: [email protected] Website: co.campbell.tn.us

CANNON COUNTY - WOODBURY

Trail of Tears Events Places National Historic Trail Auburntown's Horseshows Arts Center of Cannon County In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Emphasis on the Spotted Saddle Horse. Fine crafts, workshops, exhibitions, Cherokees were forced to leave Bryson's Show Arena and community theater their homes in the southeastern 105 Ballpark Road productions. Also home to the states and move to the territory Auburntown, TN 37016 Robert Mason Historical Museum. that would become Oklahoma. Phone: 615-464-4774 or 615-464-4138 Free admission. Today highways that closely follow 1424 John Bragg Highway the trail are marked with official Spring markers, and historic sites lie along Woodbury, TN Good Old Days Phone: 800-235-9073 or 615-563-2787 the trail. Contact the National Park Service and the local Chamber of Music, entertainment, arts & crafts, Off Our Rocker and other activities. Commerce for specific information. Handcrafted doll and children's Long Distance Trails Woodbury, TN furniture. Free admission. Phone: 615-563-2787 Group Office, Santa Fe 212 East Water Street National Park Service Website: Woodbury, TN www.wbry.com/festival.htm P.O. Box 728 Phone: 615-563-5751 Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 June Website: Phone: 505-988-6888 www.wtm2.com/offourrocker E-mail: [email protected] Gassaway Homecoming Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ First Saturday Readyville Mill Built after the Civil War to replace tearsnht.html Phone: 615-563-2222 or 615-563-7338 an earlier mill. Electric power was July generated here in the 1920s.

Old Murfreesboro Road Visitor Information Woodbury Horse Show Phone: 615-563-2222 or 615-563-7338 First Saturday Woodbury Chamber of Commerce Emphasis on the Tennessee Short Mountain - Jim Cummins 324 Doolittle Road Walking Horse. State Natural Area P.O. Box 140 Phone: 615-563-2222 or 615-563-7338 Woodbury, TN 37190

Phone: 615-563-2222 or 615-563-7338 July/August

Red Apple Days Website: WBRY 1540 AM Ends on the first Saturday in August Woodbury, TN www.wbry.com This local radio station website has Phone: 615-563-2787 information and links related to September Cannon County.

Cornbread and Beans Days Last Saturday Phone: 615-563-2222 or 615-563-7338

Gordon Browning Museum & Medicine Bow Ranch Events Genealogical Library Horseback riding. September Memorabilia from Governor 5220 Dollar Road Browning, plus genealogical Buena Vista, TN 38318 Heritage Festival research materials for Carroll and Phone: 731-586-7301 Fourth weekend surrounding counties. Fax: 731-586-2869 Arts and crafts, talent show, and 640 North Main Street E-mail: [email protected] other activities. McKenzie, TN 38201 Huntington, TN Natchez Trace Phone: 731-352-3510 Phone: 731-986-2902 Wildlife Management Area Huntingdon Historical Museum Phone: 731-986-5351 or 731-423-5725

Exhibits related to city and county

Places history. Free admission. 19699 East Main Street Visitor Information Billy O. Williams Museum Huntington, TN 38344 Memorabilia from Carroll County Phone: 731-986-3126 or 731-986-2900 Huntingdon/Carroll County and Mr. Williams, a former State Chamber of Commerce poet-laureate. Jarrell Switch Refuge 20740 East Main Street McLemoresville, TN Wildlife Management Area P.O. Box 726 Phone: 731-423-5725 Huntingdon, TN 38344 Phone: 731-986-4563 Phone: 731-986-4664

Fax: 731-986-2029 E-mail: [email protected]

CARTER COUNTY - ELIZABETHTON

May Muster at Fort Watauga Events Demonstrations of 18th-century Wildflower Tours and Birdwalks January American life and battle re-enactments. Roan Mountain State Park Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Hardin's Rangers Garrison at Roan Mountain, TN Elizabethton, TN Fort Watauga Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Phone: 423-543-5808 Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Website: Website: Elizabethton, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 423-543-5808 parks/roanmtn/events.htm parks/sycamore/events.htm Website: Miller Homestead Saturdays www.state.tn.us/environment/ June Most Saturdays, May through Sep. parks/sycamore/ Storytelling, music, and arts. Miller Homestead Saturdays February Roan Mountain State Park (see May) Roan Mountain, TN Company of Overmountain Men Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Summer Concert Series (see May) Garrison at Fort Watauga Website: Covered Bridge Festival Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park www.state.tn.us/environment/ Music, food, arts and crafts, and Elizabethton, TN parks/roanmtn/events.htm entertainment. Free admission. Phone: 423-543-5808 Elizabethton, TN Website: Summer Concert Series Phone: 423-547-3850 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Fridays and Saturdays, Memorial parks/sycamore/events.htm Day through Labor Day Nature Discovery Week Old time bluegrass, clogging, Guided hikes, slide shows, and April storytelling, and more. hands-on programs. Peter's Hollow Egg Fight Roan Mountain State Park Roan Mountain State Park Free admission. Roan Mountain, TN Roan Mountain, TN Peter's Hollow Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Phone: 423-547-3850 Website: Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/roanmtn/events.htm parks/roanmtn/events.htm Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 11 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Native American Festival September Christmas Garrison at First weekend Fort Watauga Music, dance, arts, crafts, lectures, Miller Homestead Saturdays The Company of Overmountain Men (see May) and demonstrations of Native recreate an 18th-century Christmas. American and especially Cherokee Summer Concert Series Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park culture. (see May) Elizabethton, TN Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Phone: 423-543-5808 Elizabethton, TN Fort Watauga Knap-In Website: Phone: 423-543-5808 Demonstrations of how Native www.state.tn.us/environment/ Website: Americans made tools and how parks/sycamore/events.htm www.state.tn.us/environment/ they made and used weapons. Christmas at the Carter Mansion parks/sycamore/events.htm Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Elizabethton, TN Candlelight tours, music, and Jim & Jesse's Bluegrass Festival Phone: 423-543-5808 refreshments in 18th-century style. Second weekend Website: Elizabethton, TN Slagle's Pasture www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 423-543-6140 or 423-543-5808

Elizabethton, TN parks/sycamore/events.htm Phone: 423-547-3850 Overmountain Victory Trail Places Rhododendron Festival Celebration and March Third weekend Demonstration of 18th-century Appalachian Trail Appalachian crafts, music, dancing, shooting and battle tactics and a Appalachian Trail Conference and food during the peak blooming celebration and recreation of the 799 Washington Street of the mountain Rhododendrons. muster before and march to the P.O. Box 807 Free admission. Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 Roan Mountain State Park Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Phone: 304-535-6331 Roan Mountain, TN Elizabethton, TN Fax: 304-535-2667 Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Phone: 423-543-5808 Website: www.atconf.org Website: Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ B-Cliff Whitewater Rafting parks/roanmtn/events.htm parks/sycamore/events.htm Guided trips on the Watauga River. 390 Wilbur Dam Road July Fall Festival Elizabethton, TN 37644

Miller Homestead Saturdays Third weekend Phone: 423-542-2262 Autumn handicrafts, craft (see May) Doe River Covered Bridge demonstrations, food, music, and Summer Concert Series (see May) contests. Heavy oak planks, hand-forged nails, Roan Mountain State Park and treated spikes have maintained "The Wataugans" Roan Mountain, TN the appearance and function of this Outdoor Drama Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 1882 bridge. Free admission. A drama illustrating the settlement Website: Off Highway 19 East of Northeast Tennessee. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Elizabethton, TN Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Phone: 423-547-3850 parks/roanmtn/events.htm

Elizabethton, TN Phone: 423-543-5808 November Carter Mansion Website: John Carter was a leader in the www.state.tn.us/environment/ Thanksgiving Garrison at Fort Watauga Association and Carter Watauga County was named for his son, parks/sycamore/events.htm The Company of Overmountain Landon. Their family built this Butterfly Count Men recreate an 18th-century house around 1780, making it the Third weekend Thanksgiving. Free admission. oldest frame house in Tennessee. Roan Mountain State Park Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park Free admission. Roan Mountain, TN Elizabethton, TN 1013 Broad Street Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Phone: 423-543-5808 Elizabethton, TN Website: Website: Phone: 423-543-6140 or 423-543-5808 www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ Cherokee National Forest parks/roanmtn/events.htm parks/sycamore/events.htm Watauga Ranger Station August December 246 Highway 91 Elizabethton, TN 37643 Miller Homestead Saturdays Madrigal Dinners Phone: 423-542-2942 (see May) Milligan College Fax: 423-542-6739 Milligan College, TN Summer Concert Series Phone: 423-547-3850 (see May) Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 12 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Hampton Creek Cove Sheltering Rock Tennessee Wilderness Road State Natural Area The Overmountain Men camped A route through northeast under this rock on their way to the Tennessee that highlights the Mary McKeehan Patton Grave Battle of King's Mountain. natural beauty and history of the Mary Patton produced gun power Roan Mountain, TN region. Free brochure. for the Overmountain Men to take to Phone: 423-547-3850 Phone: 865-828-5927 the Battle of King's Mountain in Fax: 865-828-5212 1780. Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park E-mail: [email protected] Patton-Simmons Cemetery Sycamore Shoals was the first Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/ Sycamore Shoals, TN permanent American settlement Phone: 423-547-3850 outside the 13 colonies. Watauga and Wilbur Dams Overmountain Men mustered here Wilbur Dam was built around 1912 Overmountain Victory on their way to the 1780 Battle of and purchased by TVA in 1945. National Historic Trail King's Mountain. The park features Watauga Dam was completed in Follows the path that the a reconstructed Fort Watauga and 1948, and it is 950 feet long and Overmountain Men took on their a museum. 331 feet high. Free admission. way to the Battle of King's 1651 West Elk Avenue Wilbur/Siam Roads Mountain, South Carolina, in 1780. Elizabethton, TN 37643 Elizabethton, TN 1651 West Elk Avenue Phone: 423-543-5808 Phone: 423-239-2000 or 423-735-1500 Elizabethton, TN 37643 Fax: 423-543-0078 Phone: 423-543-5808 Watauga River Bluffs Website: State Natural Area Roan Mountain State Park www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/sycamore/ Features nearby high mountain peaks and a 10 mile stretch of Visitor Information "Grassy Balds.” The Dave Miller

Homestead illustrates mountain life Elizabethton/Carter County around the turn of the 20th Chamber of Commerce & century. In June the red flowers of Tourism Council the Catawba Rhododendron burst P.O. Box 190 into bloom on the mountains. 500 Highway 19E Bypass 1015 Highway 143 Elizabethton, TN 37644 Roan Mountain, TN 37667 Phone: 423-547-3850 Phone: 800-250-8620 or 423-772-0190 Fax: 423-547-3854 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ Northeast Tennessee Tourism parks/roanmtn/ Association 109 Fox Avenue P.O. Box 415 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Website: www.netta.com

CHEATHAM COUNTY - ASHLAND CITY

June Events Places Kingston Springs Garden Tour April Borum's Pond An outdoor tour of gardens in A designated waterfowl resting area. Southern Cheatham County. Walk on the Wildside Ashland City, TN Guided and self-guided tours to see Phone: 615-746-0400 Phone: 615-792-6722 wildflowers and birds. October Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail Cheatham County Courthouse Ashland City, TN Oktoberfest Completed in 1857. Phone: 615-792-2655 or 615-792-4211 Food, music, dancing, and more. 100 Public Square Ashland City, TN Ashland City, TN Cheatham Wildlife Trail Rides Phone: 615-792-2666 Phone: 615-792-4316 Solo and group rides. Cheatham Wildlife Management Area Cheatham Lake and Dam

Phone: 615-792-3500 or 615-792-4810 1798 Cheatham Dam Road Ashland City, TN Phone: 615-792-3715 or 615-792-5697 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 13 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cheatham Lake Harpeth Scenic River & Narrows Mound Bottom Historic Site Wildlife Management Area State Historic Park Native Americans lived here for Twenty thousand acres with trails, Around 1818, Montgomery Bell several hundred years before hunting, and public shooting and planned a 290-foot tunnel through Columbus came to North America. archery ranges. Free admission. a limestone ridge that would Signs of their culture remain intact. Phone: 615-792-4510 provide a waterfall with enough Tours available by request. power to operate an iron Cedar Hill Road Cheatham manufacturing mill. Slaves dug the P.O. Box 454 Wildlife Management Area tunnel using black powder and Kingston Springs, TN 37082 Phone: 615-792-4810 or 615-792-4510

hand tools. Group tours are Phone: 615-797-9052 or 615-662-1366 available. Civil War Railroad Sam's Creek Springs Several military sites lie along the Kingston Springs, TN 37887 Phone: 615-797-9051 Used as a resort area in the early 1800s. railroad that passes through Deerfoot Drive off Route 249 Cheatham, Dickson, and Humphreys Website: Phone: 615-792-6722 Counties, generally following the www.state.tn.us/environment/ course of Highway 70. Many of the parks/harpeth/ Stratton's sites are on private property, so you Harpeth River A 50s-style restaurant with must get permission to visit them. Enjoy canoeing on this scenic memorabilia lining the walls. Free brochure. waterway. The following canoe 201 South Main Street Phone: 615-792-6722 rental businesses are located on Ashland City, TN Phone: 615-792-9177 Comfort Pottery Highway 70 in Kingston Springs. Demonstrations, studio tours, and Phone: 615-646-7124 Sycamore Mills classes are available at this pottery Foggy Bottom Canoe Rentals This site once contained a cotton shop. Phone: 615-952-4062 factory, a saw mill, and a power 5430 B Highway 41-A Tip-A-Canoe Canoe Rentals mill which played a role in the Civil Joelton, TN 37080 Phone: 800-550-5810 or 615-952-2674 War. An old stone dam and a Phone: 615-746-4448 Pizza Shack and Canoe Rentals bridge are still present. Phone: 615-952-2222 Off Highway 49 near Girl Scout Cumberland River camp. Bicentennial Trail The Honey House Phone: 615-792-6722 A "rails-to-trails" project winding Observation hives show worker bees between bluffs, creeks, lakes, and making honey and the queen bee Trail of Tears marshes. Open to hikers, bikers, and laying eggs. A video teaches about National Historic Trail horseback riders. Free admission. bees and how they gather nectar. In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Chapmansboro Road 1241 Substation Road Cherokees were forced to leave Ashland City, TN Pleasant View, TN their homes in the southeastern Phone: 615-792-4211 Phone: 615-746-5398 states and move to the territory

Website: Lacy-Roo Stables that would become Oklahoma. www.cheatham.org/trail/index.htm Horseback lessons and trail rides. Today highways that closely follow the trail are marked with official Timothy Demonbreun Grave Site 1080 Little Marrowbone Road Ashland City, TN markers, and historic sites lie along Timothy Demonbreun was the trail. Contact the National Park considered one of the earliest Phone: 615-792-2548 Service and the local Chamber of European settlers in Middle Log House Commerce for specific information. Tennessee. The homesite of his son Erected in the early 1800s and first Long Distance Trails John Baptist Demonbreun is nearby. used as a church meeting house, Group Office, Santa Fe Marrowbone Creek Road this cabin later hosted meetings of National Park Service Ashland City, TN County officials during the P.O. Box 728 Harpeth Clock and Quilt Company organization of the County. It was Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Features a large selection of floor, moved to its present site in the Phone: 505-988-6888 mantel, and wall clocks, and early 1900s. E-mail: [email protected] quilting supplies. 111 Elizabeth Street Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ 462 Highway 70 Ashland City, TN tearsnht.html

P.O. Box 40 Marvel Low House Pegram, TN 37143 Built in 1798 and used as a Phone: 800-238-4284 or 615-646-0938 stagecoach stop between Nashville

Fax: 615-646-5702 and Clarksville. Pleasant View, TN

Visitor Information

Cheatham County Chamber of Commerce 605A North Main Street P.O. Box 354 Ashland City, TN 37015 Phone: 615-792-6722 Fax: 615-792-5001 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cheatham.org

CHESTER COUNTY - HENDERSON

Events Places Visitor Information

June Chickasaw State Park Henderson-Chester County 20 Cabin Lane Chamber of Commerce Frontier Days Henderson, TN 38340 P.O. Box 683 Old-fashioned games and events, a Phone: 731-989-5141 Henderson, TN 38019 horse show, and a non-motorized Website: Phone: 731-476-9727 parade. www.state.tn.us/environment/ E-mail: Chickasaw State Park parks/chicksaw/ [email protected] Henderson, TN Website: Phone: 731-989-5141 Chickasaw www2.wtnnet.com/wtnnet/hender Website: Wildlife Management Area sonnet/Chamber/default.html www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 731-423-5725

parks/chicksaw/events.htm Website: HendersonNet/Chester County September www2.wtnnet.com/wtnnet/hender Chester County sonnet/default.html Barbecue Festival

Food, arts & crafts, entertainment, talent show, and more. Free admission. Henderson, TN Phone: 731-989-5222

CLAIBORNE COUNTY - TAZEWELL

Summer Fall Events Tunnel Run Car Show Colonial Trade Faire Spring Classic cars and trucks. Period activities and exhibitions. Encampment of the Severed Harrogate, TN Cumberland Gap, TN

Union Phone: 423-869-0211 October Musket and cannon demonstrations, June and live period music. Scots-Irish-English Days Cumberland Gap, TN Folk Fest and Heritage Days Bagpiping, clogging, pumpkin Cumberland Gap, TN painting, and more. Appalachian Reflections Cumberland Gap, TN Square dancing, cross-cut sawing September contest, and fiddling competitions. December Cumberland Gap, TN Fall Bluegrass Jam Cumberland Gap, TN Victorian Christmas Cumberland Gap, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 15 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Hensley Settlement Towne of Cumberland Gap Places A collection of restored buildings A walking tour guide is available Abraham Lincoln Museum from the early 1900s. for this community. Over twenty thousand books, Cumberland Gap Colwyn Street manuscripts, photographs, National Historic Park Cumberland Gap, TN paintings, sculptures, and other Phone: 606-248-2817 Phone: 800-423-3660 or 423-869-3860 items related to Abraham Lincoln The Old Drugstore & Antiques and the Civil War. Old-fashioned fountain and fixtures Lincoln Memorial University Visitor Information with crafts, novelties, and antiques. Cumberland Gap Parkway 515 Colwyn Avenue Harrogate, TN 37752 Claiborne County Cumberland Gap, TN Phone: 423-869-6235 Chamber of Commerce Phone: 423-869-0455 P.O. Box 332 Website: www.lmunet.edu/museum/ Powell River Preserve Tazewell, TN 37879 Phone: 423-626-4149 Cumberland Gap General Store State Natural Area The original glass barn of the E-mail: Speedwell Academy South. Free admission. [email protected] Founded in 1827 by George Shutter, 503 Colwyn Avenue Website: www.claibornecounty.com a German immigrant, and used as a Cumberland Gap, TN headquarters and hospital during the Cumberland Gap Phone: 423-869-2282 Chamber of Commerce Civil War. Free admission. Cumberland Gap 220 Academy Road Phone: 800-423-3660 or 423-869-3860 National Historic Park Speedwell, TN E-mail: [email protected] Website: Located where the states of Virginia, Phone: 423-869-3414 or 423-562-1280 Kentucky, and Tennessee come www.cumberlandgaptn.com Tennessee Wilderness Road together, the Cumberland Gap was a A route through northeast Northeast Tennessee major thoroughfare for American Tennessee that highlights the Tourism Association pioneers around the turn of the 19th natural beauty and history of the 109 Fox Avenue century. Besides the natural beauty, region. A guide is available. P.O. Box 415 attractions include the exhibits and Phone: 865-828-5927 Jonesborough, TN 37659 artifacts in the Visitor Center, and a Fax: 865-828-5212 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 restored mountain community. Free E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] admission. Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/ Website: www.netta.com US Highway 25E South P.O. Box 1848 Middlesboro, KY 965 Phone: 606-248-2817 Fax: 606-248-7276

Website: www.nps.gov/cuga/

CLAY COUNTY - CELINA

Dale Hollow Lake Events Places State Resort Park and Marina August Clay County Courthouse The construction of Dale Hollow The second oldest working Dam created Dale Hollow Lake in Homecoming Days courthouse in Tennessee. Local the 1940s. Free admission. First weekend whittlers work nearby and Amish 6371 State Park Road Music, arts and crafts, and more. sell goods on the square. Bow, KY 42717 Celina, TN Celina, TN Phone: 800-325-2282 or 502-433-7431 Phone: 931-243-3338 Phone: 931-243-2161 Dale Hollow E-mail: [email protected] National Fish Hatchery Clay County Museum & Cordell Produces Rainbow, Brown, and Hull's First Law Office Lake Trout. Tours available. Free County artifacts and Indian relics. admission. Free admission. 50 Fish Hatchery Road 805 Brown Street Celina, TN 38551 Celina, TN 38551 Phone: 931-243-2433 Phone: 931-243-4220 Fax: 931-243-3962

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 16 © 2003 The Notgrass Company E-mail: [email protected] Red Oak Ridge Upper Cumberland Website: Hiking and Riding Trail Tourism Association southeast.fws.gov/dalehollow/ Eighteen miles of trails. P.O. Box 2411 5050 Dale Hollow Dam Road Cookeville, TN 38502 Free Hill(s) Community Celina, TN 38551 Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Before the Civil War, a woman Phone: 931-243-3136 named Virginia Hill brought her Website: slaves from North Carolina to this Clay County, Tennessee site, settled them on 2,000 acres, www.wwns.com/usatowns/tn/ Visitor Information and freed them. The free slaves counties/clay/ took her surname and the Clay County community became Free Hill(s). Chamber of Commerce Off Highway 53 476 Brown Street

Celina, TN 38551 Phone: 931-243-3338

COCKE COUNTY - NEWPORT

October "Christy" Boarding House and Events Mission Site On Cosby Festival and Drama May Author Catherine Marshall based Bluegrass music, craft the book Christy on the experiences Ramp Festival demonstrations, a dramatic of her mother, Leonora Whitaker First Sunday production, and other activities Woods, who stayed at the Burnett Celebrates the ramp, an onion-like portray Appalachian life and culture. Boarding House when she first vegetable that grows in the mountains Cosby, TN arrived from North Carolina as a of East Tennessee, with bluegrass Phone: 423-487-5700 mission teacher. The mission site is music, food, crafts, and more. Newport Harvest Street Festival located a few miles away on an Cosby, TN Pioneer demonstrations, games, unpaved road. Guided tours Phone: 423-625-9675 available. entertainment, and more. Free June admission. Del Rio and Chapel Hollow, TN Newport, TN Phone: 423-487-2648 Smoky Mountain Phone: 423-623-7201 Antique Engine & Tractor Show Deerfoot Quilts E-mail: [email protected] Cocke County Fairgrounds Appalachian arts and crafts, and Phone: 423-623-0924 December Native American folklore, plus workshops and training sessions. Dulcimer and Harp Convention Mimosa Manor Tours Free admission. Musical workshops, storytelling, December 3020 Cosby Highway and concerts. Free admission. Newport, TN Cosby, TN Cosby, TN Phone: 423-623-4228 Phone: 423-487-5798

Phone: 423-487-5543 English Mountain Llama Treks R. A. Bright's Professional Rodeo Places Guided one day and multi-day

Phone: 423-623-6169 hikes with pack llamas. Appalachian Trail 738 English Mountain Road Bluegrass Jam Appalachian Trail Conference Newport, TN Newport City Park 799 Washington Street Phone: 423-623-5274 Newport, TN P.O. Box 807 E-mail: Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 [email protected] August Phone: 304-535-6331 Website: www.hikinginthesmokies.com Christy Mission Homecoming Fax: 304-535-2667 Del Rio, TN Website: www.atconf.org Faubion Cemetery

John Faubion (1776-1869) was a Phone: 423-487-2648 Bell/Eisenhower House Quaker and member of the Big Built around 1850 by Benjamin September Pigeon Primitive Baptist Church, Franklin Bell. It has six porches the first church in Cocke County. Labor Day Celebration and stained glass windows. The cemetery contains graves Music, storytelling, food, and other Parrottsville, TN entertainment at Christy Mission. divided by early settlers and slaves. Del Rio, TN Parrottsville, TN

Phone: 423-487-2648 French Broad Outpost Ranch Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 17 © 2003 The Notgrass Company A working farm offering guided Kyle Carver Orchards Rankin Wildlife Management Area horseback rides and rafting trips. Grows many varieties of apples and Phone: 423-587-7037 461 Old River Road other fruit. Del Rio, TN 37727 3460 Cosby Highway Rhyne Clock Company Rhyne Grandfather Clocks are Phone: 800-995-7678 or 423-487-3120 Cosby, TN produced at this factory. Free Phone: 423-487-2419 The Front Porch admission. Bluegrass music on Friday and Mimosa Manor 211 West Main Street Saturday nights. Free admission. Built in 1919. Guided tour available. Newport, TN 2912 Cosby Highway Newport, TN Phone: 423-623-2324 Cosby, TN Phone: 423-623-4228 E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 423-487-2875 Mountain Musicrafts Rhyne-Valentine Culture Center Gilliland/O'Dell House Workshops and training for Features additional information Built in 1814 by Abel Gilliland. building and playing traditional about area sites. Del Rio, TN Appalachian instruments. Cosby, TN

267 South Highway 32 Phone: 423-487-5700 Grace Moore Birthplace Cosby, TN A marker identifies the birthplace Salem Lutheran Church & Phone: 423-487-5543 of Grace Moore, an opera, radio, Cemetery and cinema star. Natural Bridge Organized in 1845. The cemetery Del Rio, TN Crossed by Highway 430, this bridge contains the graves of early settlers.

is 50 feet wide and 150 feet long, and Parrottsville, TN Great Smoky Mountains it rises 15 feet above the creek. National Park Smoke Walker Bike & Hikes Parrottsville, TN This park covers land in Tennessee Guided hiking and biking tours, and North Carolina. The visitor Newport City Hall and river rafting. center near Gatlinburg has natural Portions built in 1868. 4860 Big Creek Road history exhibits, the visitor center Newport, TN Hartford, TN near Cherokee, NC, has exhibits on Phone: 423-487-5721 mountain life in the late 1800s and a Newport/Cocke County Museum collection of historic farm buildings, Exhibits about Grace Moore, Smoky Mountain Heritage Tour and visitor center near Townsend, Governor Ben Hooper, and native A self-guided auto tour highlights TN, sits among preserved 19th- animals, plus an antique kitchen historic buildings and sites in the century historic buildings. The park and tools. Free admission. county. Free brochure. has more than 800 miles of trails, and 433 Prospect Avenue Phone: 423-625-9675 Newport, TN numerous special events occur Smoky Mountain Phone: 423-625-7304 or 423-623-7201 during the year. Information Center 107 Park Headquarters Road Newport Grammar School Regional information for Cosby Gatlinburg, TN 37738 With portions dating back to 1898, and the Smoky Mountain Valley. Phone: 865-436-1200 this is the oldest continuously used Features weekend music festivals Website: www.nps.gov/grsm/ government school building in and a moonshine still display. Free

Harned's Chapel Church Tennessee. admission. Established around 1880. Newport, TN 4381 Cosby Highway Cosby, TN Parrottsville, TN Old Stokely Brothers Headquarters Phone: 423-487-5700 Hillbilly's Music Barn The Stokely family began canning Bluegrass music and traditional tomatoes for sale around 1900. By Stokely Home dance on Saturday nights. Free 1941 the company had 34 factories Built around 1880 by Marvel N. admission. in 14 states. This building was the Stokely, a descendant of one of the 1580 Norwood Town Road office of the Stokely plant. first two white settlers in the area. Newport, TN Newport, TN Del Rio, TN Phone: 423-487-5541 Oven Creek Methodist Church Swaggerty Fort

Joan Beaver Studio Established with a log building in Built around 1787, this is one of Artist of historical prints of buildings 1840, the present building dates only two original blockhouses in and trains, and a dollmaker. from 1880. The cemetery was Tennessee. Attributed to James 249 North Highway 340 established in 1820. Swaggerty. Parrottsville, TN Parrottsville, TN Parrottsville, TN 37843 Phone: 423-623-0035 Pinehurst Built in 1843 by James Burnett. Del Rio, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 18 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Whisperwood Chapel Yett/Ellison House Visitor Information A hand-hewn chapel with handmade Built in 1857 by Hamilton Yett. benches. Free admission. The Ellison family patriarch served Newport/Cocke County 166 Middle Creek Road as Sheriff and sometimes kept Chamber of Commerce Cosby, TN prisoners in the outbuildings 433B Propsect Phone: 800-962-2246 or 423-487-4000 behind the house. Newport, TN 37821

Parrottsville, TN Phone: 423-623-7201 Whitewater Rafting Fax: 423-623-7216 Several companies guide excursions E-mail: [email protected] on the Pigeon River. Website: www.cockecounty.org Hartford, TN Phone: 423-625-9675 Newport/Cocke County

Website: Tourism Council www.cockecounty.com/activities/ 360 East Main Street, Suite 141 rafting.htm Newport, TN 37821 Phone: 423-625-9675 Fax: 423-623-8792 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cockecounty.com

COFFEE COUNTY - MANCHESTER

Beech Grove Confederate Cemetery Events Places The Spencer Repeating Rifle was May AEDC and Woods Reservoir first used in combat at the Battle of Refuge Wildlife Management Hoover's Gap here. This was the Fine Arts Festival Area first Confederate cemetery in the Tullahoma Fine Arts Phone: 931-967-6101 South, and the site has monuments Center/Regional Art Museum and historical markers. The Tullahoma, TN Arnold Engineering Development Tullahoma Campaign Driving Phone: 931-455-1234 Center & Arnold Air Force Base Tour begins here. E-mail: [email protected] Aerospace testing has been Beech Grove, TN

performed here since the 1950's. It Flintknapping Workshop is the most advanced and largest Beech Staggerwing Museum First weekend complex of flight simulation Celebrates the Beechcraft Old Stone Fort State Park facilities in the world. It provides Staggerwing aircraft. Manchester, TN testing for the U.S. Department of Highway 130 East Phone: 931-723-5073 Defense, NASA, and commercial Tullahoma, TN Website: and international customers. Tours Phone: 931-455-1974 www.state.tn.us/environment/ are available. Church Street Historic District parks/stoneft/events.htm Phone: 931-454-3000 Manchester, TN June Website: www.arnold.af.mil Phone: 931-728-7635

Arrowheads to Aerospace Paul Pyle Dulcimer Festival Coffee County Courthouse Museum Tullahoma, TN Houses the Coffee County Historical Lionel trains, toys, Indian artifacts, Phone: 931-455-5497 Society, which maintains historical Civil War and World War I and II and genealogical research materials August exhibits, and a country store. and information. 24 Campground Road Flintknapping Workshop Courthouse Square Manchester, TN 37355 Third weekend Manchester, TN Phone: 931-723-1323 or 931-728-1829 Old Stone Fort State Park Phone: 931-723-5132 Manchester, TN Bark Camp Barrens Foothills Crafts Phone: 931-723-5073 Wildlife Management Area Arts and crafts association that Website: Phone: 615-781-6622 features creations in glass, fiber, www.state.tn.us/environment/ wood, clay, and metal. Free parks/stoneft/events.htm admission.

418 Woodbury Highway Manchester, TN

Phone: 931-728-9236

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 19 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Historic Depot District Rutledge Falls Tullahoma Fine Arts Tullahoma, TN Ice-cold springs feed this waterfall Center/Regional Art Museum Phone: 931-454-9446 between Manchester and Regional exhibits and rotating Tullahoma off Highway 55. Look national exhibits. Manchester Arts Center for the signs for Rutledge Falls 401 South Jackson Street Features a gallery with monthly Baptist Church. Tullahoma, TN 37388 exhibits, a dance studio, and a Phone: 931-455-1234 theater. Short Springs State Natural Area E-mail: [email protected] 909 Hillsboro Boulevard Website: Manchester, TN South Jackson Civic Center and Mitchell Museum www.tennesseetourist.com/tfac Phone: 931-728-7688 or 931-728-3434 Features local and regional history

May Prairie State Natural Area exhibits, and plays and musical performances. Visitor Information Old Stone Fort State Park Phone: 931-455-0620 The Old Stone Fort is an American Tullahoma Chamber of Indian ceremonial site consisting of Tullahoma Campaign Driving Tour Commerce mounds and walls that date back Between June 23 and July 4 of 1863, 135 West Lincoln several hundred years. The Visitor Union forces battled the P.O. Box 1205 Center includes exhibits about the Confederates back toward Tullahoma, TN 37388 history, archaeology, and legends Chattanooga. This 130-mile driving Phone: 931-455-5497 surrounding the fort and its builders. tour highlights several sites in Fax: 931-455-5350 732 Stone Fort Drive Coffee, Bedford, Franklin, and E-mail: [email protected] Manchester, TN 37855 Grundy counties that relate to the Phone: 931-723-5073 conflict. The tour begins in Beech Tennessee's Backroads Heritage Website: Grove, Coffee County, and ends in An organization composed of www.state.tn.us/environment/ Monteagle, Grundy County. Free Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, and Moore Counties, and the parks/stoneft/ brochure. Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Cumberland Mountain area Normandy E-mail: [email protected] spreading from Monteagle to Wildlife Management Area Website: www.cyber-time.com/ Beersheba Springs. Phone: 615-781-6622 tnbkrds/default.htm 300 South Jackson Street Tullahoma, TN 37388 Northside Clocks Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Over 300 clocks, sales, and service. E-mail: [email protected] or Manchester, TN [email protected] Phone: 931-728-4307 Website: www.cyber-time.com/ tnbkrds/default.htm

Website: Manchester, Tennessee www.manchestertn.org

CROCKETT COUNTY - ALAMO

Events Places Visitor Information

August Horns Bluff Refuge Crockett County Chamber of Wildlife Management Area Commerce West Tennessee Cotton Festival Phone: 731-696-3197 320 Bells St. Arts and crafts, entertainment, Alamo, TN 38001 food, rides, and more. Cotton Museum Phone: 731-696-5120 Crockett Mills, TN Articles and equipment related to Fax: 731-696-4855 Phone: 731-696-5120 the production and harvesting of

August Cumberland Homesteads Events Tower Museum 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor March The Cumberland Homesteads was Outdoor Sale a New Deal project during the Fireside Tales Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Great Depression. This tower, built Folk tales and Appalachian stories. E-mail: [email protected] in 1937-38, served as the Cumberland Mountain State Park Website: headquarters. It now contains Crossville, TN www.jamestowntn.org/worlds.htm photos, documents, and artifacts Phone: 931-484-6138 Concerts in the Park from the 1930s and 1940s. Free Website: (see May) admission for "school groups." www.state.tn.us/environment/ 96 Highway 68 parks/cumbmtn/events.htm September Crossville, TN 38555

April Phone: 931-456-9663 Concerts in the Park

(see May) Depot Days and Fine Arts Festival Cumberland Mountain State Park 24 Office Drive Fine arts, demonstrations, music, October Homestead tours, and more. Free Crossville, TN 38555 admission. Concerts in the Park Phone: 800-250-8618 or 931-484-6138 Crossville, TN (see May) Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 931-456-6255 Pioneer Day on the Mountain parks/cumbmtn/ May Demonstrations, clogging, quilting, entertainment, and more. Fairfield Glade Resort Herb and Medicinal Plant Walk Crossville, TN Guided horse and pony rides and Cumberland Mountain State Park Phone: 931-484-7416 "Western Nights". Crossville, TN 7703 Chestnut Hill Road Phone: 931-484-6138 Crossville, TN 38555 Website: Places Phone: 931-484-0110 www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/cumbmtn/events.htm Catoosa Wildlife Management Area Keyes-Harrison

Phone: 931-456-2479 Wildlife Management Area May Phone: 931-484-9571 Crossville Depot Concerts in the Park Sgt. Alvin C. York was welcomed Mount Roosevelt State Forest and May through October home at this site in 1921. Free Wildlife Management Area Cumberland Mountain State Park admission. Phone: 931-484-9571 Crossville, TN 14 North Street Ozone Falls State Natural Area Phone: 931-484-6138 Crossville, TN Website: Hiking, rappelling, and naturalist Phone: 931-456-2586 activities near the waterfall. www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/cumbmtn/events.htm Cumberland County Playhouse Highway 70E Features professionally-produced Crossville, TN Summer musicals, plays, and concerts. Phone: 931-484-6138

TennFest 221 Tennessee Avenue Pioneer Hall Museum A festival celebrating music, dance, P.O. Box 484 Houses memorabilia from the theatre, and arts and crafts. Crossville, TN 38557 Pleasant Hill Academy and the Cumberland County Playhouse Phone: 931-484-5000 county's first hospital, which was Crossville, TN E-mail: [email protected] founded by physician May Phone: 931-484-5000 Website: www.ccplayhouse.com Wharton.

46 East Main Street June Cumberland General Store With the appearance of an old-time Pleasant Hill, TN Concerts in the Park general store, this business offers Phone: 800-987-7772 or 931-484-8444

(see May) old-time merchandise. Free admission. July 1 Highway 68 Concerts in the Park Crossville, TN (see May) Phone: 931-484-8481

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 21 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Polly Page's Mountain Crafts Cumberlands of Tennessee Visitor Information Produces carvings of figures from Heritage Trail Tennessee history out of red cedar. Greater Cumberland County P.O. Box 8 Free admission. Chamber of Commerce Rugby, TN 37733 Glade Creek Road 34 South Main Street Phone: 423-628-2441 Pleasant Hill, TN Crossville, TN 38555 Website: www.cumberlands.org

Phone: 931-277-3402 Phone: 800-987-7772 or 931-484-8444 Upper Cumberland E-mail: [email protected] Tourism Association Website: P.O. Box 2411 www.crossville.com/thechamber/ Cookeville, TN 38502 Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088

DAVIDSON COUNTY - NASHVILLE

Commemoration of the Spring Events Battle of New Orleans Tennessee Crafts Festival Great Performances at Vanderbilt January 8 Contemporary and traditional Musical and theatrical presentations. Free admission. Tennessee crafts, demonstrations, Langford Auditorium The Hermitage and live music. Free admission. Nashville, TN Hermitage, TN Centennial Park Phone: 615-322-2471 Phone: 615-889-2941 Nashville, TN Lipscomb University School of Twelfth Night Celebration Phone: 615-665-0502

Music (see December) Running of the Iroquois Performances by the University February Memorial Steeplechase Jazz Band, A Cappella Singers, and The nation's oldest, continuously- other groups. Free admission. Ukrainian Eggs and run, weight-for-age steeplechase. Nashville, TN Seasonal Art Displays Percy Warner Park Phone: 615-269-1000, ext. 2258 The Upper Room Chapel and Museum Nashville, TN Nashville, TN Nashville Symphony Series Phone: 615-322-7284 or 615-343-4321 Phone: 615-340-7207 Classical and pops performances. April Tennessee Performing Arts Center March Nashville, TN Cheekwood Summer Music Series Living History Encampment Phone: 615-255-5600 April through October Mansker's Station Features local musicians. Performing Arts Series Goodlettsville, TN Cheekwood Music, dance, and theater Phone: 615-859-3678 Nashville, TN presentations. Free admission. President Andrew Jackson's Phone: 615-356-8000 Centennial, Riverfront, and other parks Nashville, TN Birthday Shelby Mustang Car Club Show March 15 Phone: 615-862-8424 Goodlettsville, TN Reduced admission. Phone: 615-859-7979 Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. The Hermitage Saturdays Hermitage, TN Ukrainian Eggs and Special family activities. Phone: 615-889-2941 Seasonal Art Displays

Cheekwood (see February) Nashville, TN "Telling Her Story" Sundays Phone: 615-356-8000 Travellers Rest Victorian Easter Nashville, TN (see March)

January Phone: 615-832-8197 Wildflower Fair Chet Atkins' Musicians Days Ukrainian Eggs and Cheekwood Music from national and Seasonal Art Displays Nashville, TN international artists. (see February) Phone: 615-356-8000 Nashville, TN Victorian Easter Phone: 615-256-9596 Belle Meade Plantation Nashville, TN Phone: 800-270-3991 or 615-365-0501

Father's Day (see April) Cheekwood Summer Music Series Irish step dancers, bagpipes, (see April) Hermitage Harvest Fair highland dancers, and contemporary and traditional Celtic music. Plantation harvest activities, Edgefield Tour of Homes storytelling, traditional music, Tour Victorian townhomes, Travellers Rest Nashville, TN special tours, and more. cottages, craftsman bungalows, The Hermitage Phone: 615-832-8197 contemporary condos, and historic Hermitage, TN churches in one of Nashville's July Phone: 615-889-2941 oldest neighborhoods. Historic Edgefield Cheekwood Summer Music Series Italian Street Fair Nashville, TN (see April) Food, markets, entertainment, arts and

Phone: 615-228-8584 crafts, and games. Free admission. Celebration of Culture Centennial Park Living History Encampment People from various cultures share Nashville, TN Mansker's Station their heritage through music, Phone: 615-255-5600 Goodlettsville, TN dance, art, storytelling, educational Phone: 615-859-3678 activities, crafts, and food. Living History Encampment Hartzler-Towner Multicultural Mansker's Station Tennessee Jazz and Blues Museum Goodlettsville, TN Society Concert Series Nashville, TN Phone: 615-859-3678 Sundays Phone: 615-340-7463 Belle Meade Plantation and Tennessee State Fair The Hermitage Living History Encampment Exhibits, rides, shows, Phone: 615-386-7500 Mansker's Station competitions, and more. Goodlettsville, TN Tennessee State Fairgrounds Colonial Fair Phone: 615-859-3678 Nashville, TN First weekend Phone: 615-862-8980 Period music, food, games, Tennessee Jazz and Blues Fall demonstrations, and handcrafted Society Concert Series items such as furniture, baskets, Sundays (see May) Tennessee Crafts Festival and copperware. Contemporary and traditional August Mansker's Station Tennessee crafts, demonstrations, Goodlettsville, TN Americana Summer Sampler Craft, and live music. Free admission. Phone: 615-859-3678 Folk Art, and Antique Show Centennial Park Nashville, TN Rural Life Festival August Phone: 615-665-0502 Second week Folk art show, seminars, demonstrations, and entertainment. Tennessee Agricultural Museum October Nashville, TN Tennessee State Fairgrounds Nashville, TN Cheekwood Summer Music Series Phone: 615-837-5197 Phone: 615-227-2080 (see April)

June Cheekwood Summer Music Series Fall Music Festival Balloon Classic (see April) Country, gospel, jazz, and More than 50 hot-air balloons and bluegrass. Free admission. live music. Tennessee Jazz and Blues Moss Wright Park Edwin Warner Park Society Concert Series Goodlettsville, TN Sundays (see May)

Nashville, TN Phone: 615-859-7979

Phone: 615-329-7807 September Living History Encampment Cheekwood Summer Music Series African Street Festival Mansker's Station (see April) Family-oriented festival with exotic Goodlettsville, TN

foods, poetry, rap, reggae, blues, jazz, Phone: 615-859-3678 International Country Music Fan Fair gospel, R&B, drama, storytelling, art, NAIA Pow Wow and Fall Festival Live shows, exhibits, autograph fashion, and lectures. Native Americans from throughout sessions, and more. TSU Main Campus the United States and Canada come Tennessee State Fairgrounds Nashville, TN together for dancing, fine arts and Phone: 615-299-0412 or 615-963-5561 Nashville, TN crafts displays, storytelling, Phone: 615-889-7503 Bowen House Vintage Auto Expo demonstrations, and food from Bowen-Campbell House different tribes. Tennessee Jazz and Blues Hermitage Landing Society Concert Series Goodlettsville, TN Phone: 615-859-0566 Nashville, TN Sundays (see May) Phone: 615-726-0806 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 23 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Oktoberfest Day after Thanksgiving through The Arts Company Live German music, polka dancing, New Year Rotating gallery with photography, strolling accordion players, Belle Meade Plantation painting, sculpture, and folk art. German clowns, German food and Nashville, TN 215 5th Avenue North beverages, and booths with Phone: 800-270-3991 or 615-365-0501 Nashville, TN

German and American crafts. Free Phone: 615-254-2040 admission. Trees of Christmas Nashville, TN November and December Belle Meade Plantation Numerous trees with ornaments During the 19th century, this was Phone: 615-256-2729 featuring countries and Christmas one of America's top thoroughbred Southern Festival of Books lore from around the world. horse farms, and General Chalmers Author readings, panel discussions, Cheekwood used the 1850 home as his children's authors and activities, Nashville, TN headquarters during the Civil War book signings, and book sales. Free Phone: 615-353-2150 or 615-356-8000 Battle of Nashville. The plantation admission. also features a carriage house and December War Memorial Plaza stables, a 1790s log cabin, an 1820s Nashville, TN Bowen Plantation Christmas smokehouse, and other outbuildings. Phone: 615-320-7001 Open House 5025 Harding Road E-mail: [email protected] Bowen-Campbell House Nashville, TN 37205-2801 Website: www.tn-humanities.org Goodlettsville, TN Phone: 800-270-3991 or 615-356-0501

Phone: 615-859-0566 E-mail: [email protected] Civil War Re-enactment First Saturday Christmas at Belmont Belmont Mansion Learn about life for enlisted men, (see November) Adelicia Acklen built this mansion in officers, and civilians during the 1850 as her summer home. Sixteen Civil War. Period music, crafters, Living History Encampment fully furnished rooms display a and children's activities. Mansker's Station collection of original and Victorian Travellers Rest Goodlettsville, TN furnishings, artwork, and statues. Nashville, TN Phone: 615-859-3678 Belmont University

Phone: 615-832-8197 Nativity Display 1900 Belmont Boulevard Box A-39 Music and Molasses Festival (see November) Nashville, TN 37212-3757 Third weekend Tribute to African Americans in Phone: 615-460-5459 or 615-269-9537 Tennessee Agricultural Museum the Battle of Nashville Nashville, TN Lecture, memorabilia, tours, and Bicentennial Mall State Park Phone: 615-837-5197 Located in downtown Nashville, this memorial ceremony. Free admission. park features numerous memorials November and markers, including a 200-foot Nashville, TN granite map of Tennessee, a railway Americana Christmas Sampler Phone: 615-963-5561 or 615-299-0412 Craft, Folk Art, and Antique Show trestle, fountains representing the Folk art show, seminars, Twelfth Night Celebration major state rivers, a walkway of demonstrations, and entertainment. Travellers Rest Tennessee counties, a World War II Tennessee State Fairgrounds Nashville, TN memorial, a Civilian Conservation Nashville, TN Phone: 615-832-8197 Corps memorial, a 1,400-foot Wall of Phone: 615-227-2080 Fax: 615-832-8169 History, and a ninety-five bell carillon. Free admission. Victorian Christmas Christmas at Belmont James Robertson Parkway After Thanksgiving to New Year's Day (see November) Nashville, TN Victorian holiday decorations. Phone: 615-741-5280

Belmont Mansion Website: Nashville, TN Places www.state.tn.us/environment/

Phone: 615-460-5459 parks/bicenmal/ Aaron Douglas Gallery Nativity Display Features African American art, Bowen-Campbell House One hundred scenes. masks, musical instruments, and The oldest brick house in Middle The Upper Room Chapel and Museum ceremonial objects. Free Tennessee, completed in 1787. Nashville, TN admission. Decorated with period furnishings Phone: 615-340-7207 Fisk University Library and interpreted by costumed guides. 1000 17th Avenue North Victorian Thanksgiving Moss Wright Park Nashville, TN Belle Meade Plantation 745 Caldwell Road Phone: 615-329-8720 Nashville, TN P.O. Box 781 Goodlettsville, TN 37070 Phone: 800-270-3991 or 615-365-0501 Victorian Christmas Phone: 615-859-3678 or 615-859-0766 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 24 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cumberland Gallery Fun Boats Rentals and Charters Buchanan Log House Exhibits of established and emerging Pontoon boat tours on 2910 Elm Hill Pike artists, mostly from the Tennessee Percy Priest Lake. Nashville, TN 37214 and the Southeast. Free admission. Nashville, TN Phone: 615-871-4524 4107 Hillsboro Circle Phone: 800-550-2628 or 615-399-7661 The Camp at Biota Nashville, TN E-mail: [email protected] Guided horse rides and wagon rides. Phone: 615-297-0296 Website: www.funboats.com Biota Trail E-mail: [email protected] Joelton, TN 37080 The Gallery at Watkins Institute Phone: 615-876-6062 Cumberland Science Museum Features children's art programs and Sudekum Planetarium and rotating exhibits. Capers Memorial Christian Learn about natural and physical 100 Powell Place Methodist Episcopal Church science with hands-on exhibits, Nashville, TN Founded in 1832. shows, and demonstrations. Phone: 615-383-4848 319 15th Avenue North 800 Fort Negley Boulevard Nashville, TN Nashville, TN 37203 Gaylord Entertainment Center Phone: 615-329-2082 Go backstage on a tour of the

Phone: 615-862-5160 dressing and locker rooms, stage Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Art Disciples of Christ Historical production areas, and suites. Paintings, sculptures, watercolors, Society and Museum 501 Broadway drawings, prints, and photographs Archives and memorabilia related to Nashville, TN 37203 in the Stieglitz Collection of the Disciples of Christ, Churches of Phone: 615-770-2000 Modern Art and other special Christ, and Christian Church. Fax: 615-770-2010 exhibits. Featured artists include 1101 19th Avenue South Picasso, Cezanne, Rivera, Marin, Nashville, TN 37212-2196 General Jackson Showboat Hartley, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Phone: 615-327-1444 Live entertainment and dining on Dove, O'Keefe, and Stieglitz. Free Fax: 615-327-1445 the Cumberland River. admission. E-mail: [email protected] 2812 Opryland Drive Fisk University Website: users.aol.com/dishistsoc/ Nashville, TN Corner of D. B. Todd Boulevard Phone: 615-871-6100

museum.htm and Jackson Street Nashville, TN Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Gibson Bluegrass Museum 1123 Church Street Phone: 615-329-8543 or 615-329-8720 State Natural Area Nashville, TN Cheekwood Fort Nashborough Phone: 615-256-1523 Fifty-five acres of gardens James Robertson and his surround a 1920s mansion. An art companions founded Nashville Golf House Tennessee museum is housed here, which when they built a fort on the Includes a USGA museum room and features American paintings, Cumberland River in 1780. This the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Worcester porcelain, and other reconstruction illustrates frontier 400 Franklin Road decorative objects and art. life. Free admission. Nashville, TN 37069 Phone: 615-790-7600 Cheekwood has special family Riverfront Park activities on Saturday mornings. 170 1st Avenue North Governor's Executive Residence 1200 Forrest Park Drive Nashville, TN Built between 1929 and 1931 and Nashville, TN 37205-4242 Phone: 615-862-8400 purchased by the state in 1948. Phone: 615-356-8000 Free admission with reservations. E-mail: [email protected] Fort Negley This became the largest Union fort 882 South Curtiswood Lane Website: www.cheekwood.org Nashville, TN west of Washington, D.C., during Phone: 615-383-5401 Couchville Cedar Glade the Civil War. State Natural Area Chestnut Street and Ridley Avenue Grand Ole Opry Nashville, TN Live county music from old Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum favorites and new stars, performed Frist Center for the Visual Arts every weekend since 1925. Interactive exhibits, displays of Located in Nashville’s former main costumes and personal items, and a 2802 Opryland Drive post office, this center features Nashville, TN 37214 guided tour of Studio B and how changing art exhibits and recordings are made. Phone: 615-889-3060 interactive educational programs. 4 Music Square East 919 Broadway Nashville, TN 37203-4398 Nashville, TN 37203 Phone: 800-852-6437 or 615-256-1639 Phone: 615-244-3340 Website: E-mail: [email protected] www.countrymusichalloffame.org

Website: www.fristcenter.org

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 25 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Grand Ole Opry Museum In the Gallery Music Row Exhibits on past and present Specializes in African and African- Includes the offices of major country music performers, American art. Free admission. studios, recording companies, and including Roy Acuff and Minnie 624A Jefferson Street other music companies. Pearl. Free admission. Nashville, TN 16th & 17th Avenues 2804 Opryland Drive Phone: 615-255-0705 Nashville, TN

Nashville, TN 37214 E-mail: [email protected] Music Valley Car Museum Phone: 615-889-1000 Jubilee Hall Features antique vehicles, street Harpeth Scenic River Complex Constructed in 1876 using funds rods, and special interest cars such as Off U.S. Highway 70 raised by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Elvis' Limo and Dolly's Cadillac. Provides canoe access points. Call for performance dates and times 2611 McGavock Pike Phone: 615-797-9051 of the current Jubilee Singers. Nashville, TN 37214 Website: 1000 17th Avenue North Phone: 615-885-7400 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Nashville, TN Music Valley Wax Museum parks/harpeth/ Phone: 615-329-8998 or 615-329-8703 More than 50 wax figures of country Hartzler-Towner Kitty Wells/Johnny Wright music performers, plus a "Sidewalk Multicultural Museum Family Country Junction of the Stars" where entertainers have Over 4,200 artifacts from around the Features memorabilia from Kitty put their footprints, handprints, and world and more than 700 international and Johnny's 54 years in show signatures in concrete. dolls. Free admission. business. Free admission. 2515 McGavock Pike 1104 19th Avenue South 240 Old Hickory Boulevard Nashville, TN 37214 Nashville, TN 37212-2166 Madison, TN Phone: 615-883-3612

Phone: 615-340-7463 Phone: 615-865-9118 E-mail: Nashville Ballet [email protected] The Little Theatre 2976 Sidco Drive Website: www.scarrittbennett.org/ Built in 1860 and used as part of a Nashville, TN 37204 Union hospital barracks, Fisk Phone: 615-244-7233 museum.htm University turned it into a campus Fax: 615-242-1741 Hatch Show Print theatre in 1935. Website: www.nashvilleballet.org In business since 1879, this company 17th Avenue North prints promotional posters using Nashville, TN Nashville Carriage Service Tour Nashville's historic district in techniques developed in the 15th- Phone: 615-329-8513 century. Free admission. a horse-drawn carriage. 316 Broadway Local Color Gallery Riverfront Park Nashville, TN 37201 Features oils, acrylics, watercolors, First Avenue and Broadway pottery, sculpture, neon, glass, and Nashville, TN Phone: 615-256-2805 other works by artists living in Phone: 615-754-4148 or 615-880-9202 The Hermitage Tennessee. Learn about Andrew Jackson and 1912 Broadway Nashville Chamber Orchestra 19th-century life at The Hermitage, Nashville, TN 404 Greenway Avenue Nashville, TN Jackson's home. The site includes a Phone: 615-321-3141 museum, garden, log cabins from Phone: 615-292-7815 Long Hunter State Park 1804, Jackson's tomb, and a Nashville Children's Theatre Confederate cemetery. 2910 Hobson Pike Hermitage, TN 37076 724 Second Avenue South Archaeologists are often at work Nashville, TN 37210 during the summer months. Free Phone: 615-885-2422 Website: Phone: 615-254-9103 admission on January 8 (Commemoration of the Battle of www.state.tn.us/environment/ Nashville Citywalk parks/longhunt/ This two-mile, self-guided walking New Orleans) and reduced admission on March 15 (Andrew Mansker's Station tour explores Nashville's history Jackson's birthday). Living history demonstrations from pioneer settlements to the 4580 Rachel's Lane depict frontier life in this present. Hermitage, TN 37076 reconstructed 1779 fort. 209 10th Avenue South, Suite 414 Phone: 615-889-2941 Moss Wright Park Nashville, TN 37203 Fax: 615-889-9909 Phone: 615-862-7970 745 Caldwell Road E-mail: [email protected] Goodlettsville, TN 37070 Nashville Opera Association Website: www.thehermitage.com Phone: 615-859-3678 719 Thompson Lane, Suite 401 Hermitage Nashville, TN 37204 Wildlife Management Area Mount View Glade Phone: 615-292-5710

Phone: 615-459-2188 State Natural Area

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 26 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Nashville Toy Museum Website: www.opryhotel.com Nashville, TN 37189 Toy and model trains, antique The Parthenon Phone: 615-262-1794. dolls, early European bears, model This is a replica of the ancient Greek Ryman Auditorium ships and planes, and soldiers. temple in Athens. It houses a Features musical and dramatic 2613 McGavock Pike collection of American art and performances in an historic building Nashville, TN 37214 additional art exhibits. that opened in 1892. Visitors may Phone: 615-883-8870 The Parthenon website contains tour the building during the day. Fax: 615-391-0556 interesting details about the building 116 5th Avenue North E-mail: [email protected] and selections from the art collection. Nashville, TN 37219 Website: Centennial Park Phone: 615-254-1445 or 615-889-3060 www.citysearch.com/nas/toytrains Nashville, TN 37201 Website: www.ryman.com Phone: 615-862-8431 Nashville Zoo at Grassmere Fax: 615-880-2265 Sankofa-African Heritage Observe the wildlife, play on the E-mail: [email protected] Museum giant jungle gym, and tour a Sculpture, carvings, and artifacts Website: www.parthenon.org working "1880s" farm. from all parts of Africa, plus lectures, 3777 Nolensville Road Path of the Longhunter Tour musical presentations, and other Nashville, TN Tour four historic sites and learn special events. Some museum pieces Phone: 615-833-1534 about Middle Tennessee history in date back to the 15th century. E-mail: [email protected] the late 1700s and early 1800s. This 101 French Landing Website: www.nashvillezoo.org self-driving tour starts in Drive/MetroCenter & Dominion Goodlettsville and ends near P.O. Box 90883 Natchez Trace Parkway Gallatin. It includes Mansker's Nashville, TN 37209 In the late 18th and early 19th Station and the Bowen House, Rock Phone: 615-726-4894 centuries, settlers in the Ohio River Castle, Wynnewood, and Cragfont. Valley were floating their produce Goodlettsville Chamber of Commerce Sarratt Gallery at down the Mississippi River to New 100 South Main Street Vanderbilt University Orleans. They sold their flatboats Goodlettsville, TN 37072 Contemporary art by regional and for lumber, and the path now national artists. Free admission. Phone: 615-859-7979 known as the Natchez Trace Sarratt Student Center provided a good route back home. Percy Priest Vanderbilt Place near 24th Avenue The introduction of steamboats Wildlife Management Area Nashville, TN 37240 encouraged return travel by river, Phone: 615-459-2188 Phone: 615-322-2471 and the Trace lost much of its E-mail: [email protected] traffic. Historic sites, trails, and Percy Warner Park Website: picnic areas are located along the Ten miles of trails. www.vanderbilt.edu/sarratt/ 50 Vaughn Road Natchez Trace, which passes gallery.htm through Davidson County. Nashville, TN 37221 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway Phone: 615-370-8051 Scarritt-Bennett Nature Walk Tupelo, MS 38804 Fax: 615-880-2261 Ten tree-filled acres containing the Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 Website: www.nashville.org/parks/ International Garden and its multi- warnerpark/index.html language peace pole, and the

Website: www.nps.gov/natr/ demonstration "In Defense of Old Hickory Lock and Dam Radnor Lake State Natural Park Creation" Organic Garden. The Route 2, Cinder Road 1160 Otter Creek Road Center features musical Old Hickory, TN Nashville, TN 37220-1700 performances during the year. Phone: 615-373-3467 Phone: 615-822-4846 Free admission. Websites: 1008 19th Avenue South Old Hickory Village www.state.tn.us/environment/ Nashville, TN 37212-2166 Over 300 homes on the National parks/radnor/ Phone: 615-320-4600 or 615-340-7471 Register of Historic Places. E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 13 Ramblin Breeze Ranch Unguided horse tours on rental Website: www.scarrittbennett.org Old Hickory, TN horses, and hay rides. Hiking and Phone: 615-847-4123 St. John African Methodist fishing available, too. Episcopal Church Opryland Hotel Indoor Gardens 3659 Knight Road Founded in 1863. and Collections Whites Creek, TN 37189 1822 Formosa Street The indoor gardens feature tropical Phone: 615-876-1029 Nashville, TN plants, waterfalls, and fountains. Riverwood Recreation Phone: 615-320-1026 The hotel also displays art works. 2800 Opryland Drive Plantation Sugar Bush Riding, Boarding & Nashville, TN 37214 Unguided horse rides on rental Training Stables Phone: 615-889-1000 horses, pony rides, and hay rides. Trails for horse and pony rides, and End of Riverwood Drive hay rides. Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 27 © 2003 The Notgrass Company 1108 Snow Avenue Nashville, TN Trail of Tears Madison, TN 37215 Phone: 615-741-2764 National Historic Trail Phone: 615-868-7929 Tennessee Performing Arts In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Tennessee Agricultural Museum Center Cherokees were forced to leave Home and farm artifacts from the Features performances by the Circle their homes in the southeastern 19th and early 20th centuries, log Players, the Nashville Ballet, the states and move to the territory cabin complex with gardens and a Nashville Symphony, and the that would become Oklahoma. nature trail. Special programs and Tennessee Repertory Theatre. Today highways that closely follow demonstrations can be scheduled (for 505 Deaderisk Street the trail are marked with official a fee). Free admission. Nashville, TN 37219 markers, and historic sites lie along Ellington Agricultural Center Phone: 615-782-4000 the trail. Contact the National Park 440 Hogan Road E-mail: [email protected] Service and the local Chamber of P.O. Box 40627 Website: www.tpac.org Commerce for specific information. Nashville, TN 37204 Long Distance Trails Phone: 615-837-5197 or 615-360-0197 Tennessee State Capitol Group Office, Santa Fe The state legislature and supreme National Park Service Tennessee Antebellum Trail court meet in this building, P.O. Box 728 A 90-mile self-driving tour of 54 completed in 1859. President James Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 historic sites, plantations, and Civil K. Polk is buried on the grounds. Phone: 505-988-6888 War battlefields in Davidson, Free admission. E-mail: [email protected] Williamson, and Maury counties. A Charlotte Avenue Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ free map guide and discounted Nashville, TN tearsnht.html tickets to the nine sites that have Phone: 615-741-2692 admission charges are available. Fax: 615-741-1621 Travellers Rest 5700 Main Street Visitors have stopped here since P.O. Box 877 Tennessee State Museum 1799 when John Overton built this Spring Hill, TN 37174 Explore state history from ancient home. Confederate General Hood Phone: 800-381-1865 or 931-486-9055 times to the early 1900s with used it as his headquarters during the Battle of Peach Orchard Hill. Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery extensive displays on the Indians, the Civil War, famous Today it offers living history Exhibits chosen through a statewide programs, special events, and competition. Free admission. Tennesseans, products made in Tennessee, and more. guided tours. 4th and Charlotte Streets 636 Farrell Parkway Nashville, TN The Military History branch in the nearby War Memorial Building Nashville, TN 37220 Phone: 615-741-1701 Phone: 615-832-8197 E-mail: [email protected] features exhibits on conflicts from the Spanish American War to Fax: 615-832-8169 Website: www.arts.state.tn.us World War II, plus displays of E-mail: [email protected] Tennessee Central Railway Museum weapons and uniforms, including Website: Travel through the country in a Alvin York's. Free admission. travrest.home.mindspring.com restored 1950s-era passenger train. Fifth Avenue and Deaderick Street Twin Forks Horse Trail 220 Willow Street Nashville, TN 37243-1120 Seventeen miles of trails. Nashville, TN 37210 Phone: 615-741-2692 J. Percy Priest Lake Phone: 615-781-0262 Texas Troubadour Theatre 3737 Bell Road Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel Features ticketed shows plus the free Nashville, TN 37214-2260 Thirty-six riding figures such as Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree on Phone: 615-889-1975 Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Saturday nights and Nashville Cowboy Fax: 615-391-0005 and Kitty Wells, sculpted by Church on Sunday mornings. Two Rivers Mansion Nashville native Red Grooms. 2414 Music Valley Drive 3130 McGavock Pike Riverfront Park Nashville, TN 37214 Nashville, TN 37214 Broadway and First Avenues Phone: 615-885-0028

Phone: 615-885-1112 Nashville, TN Phone: 615-259-4747 or 615-254-7020 TNN: The Nashville Network The Ultimate Gallery Visitors can watch shows in Fax: 615-244-6278 Features work by local students production for this cable television and by regional and national Tennessee Library and Archives network. professional artists. Houses a large collection of books, 2806 Opryland Drive 1908 Church Street journals, documents, microfilm, Nashville, TN 37214 Nashville, TN manuscripts, photographs, and other Phone: 615-883-7000 or 615-457-7824 Phone: 615-341-0694 reference materials related to Fax: 615-327-1666 Tennessee history. Free admission. E-mail: [email protected] 403 7th Avenue North

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 28 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Upper Room Chapel and Museum Willie Nelson and Friends Goodlettsville Chamber of Artifacts, rare books, antique English Showcase Museum Commerce Porcelains, furniture, and religious Tributes to Patsy Cline, Elvis, 100 South Main Street, Suite D art, including a 8' x 17' wood carving Faron Young, and others, plus Goodlettsville, TN 37072 copied from da Vinci's "The Last Willie Nelson memorabilia. Phone: 615-859-7979 Supper", an 8' x 20' stained glass 2613A McGavock Pike Fax: 615-859-1480 window, a 1350 Russian icon, and Nashville, TN 37214 Website: copies of paintings by Raphael. Free Phone: 615-885-1515 www.goodlettsvillechamber.com admission. 1908 Grand Avenue Old Hickory Chamber of Visitor Information P.O. Box 189 Commerce

Nashville, TN 37202 P.O. Box 506 Greater Nashville Regional Old Hickory, TN 37138-0506 Phone: 615-340-7207 Tourism Committee Phone: 615-847-4615

E-mail: [email protected] 501 Union Street Vanderbilt University 6th Floor Tennessee Historical Fine Arts Gallery Nashville, TN 37219-1705 Commission Ancient to contemporary art from Phone: 615-862-8828 This State Historic Preservation the East and West. Free admission. E-mail: [email protected] Agency has offices in the 1850s 23rd and West End Avenues Clover Bottom mansion. Nashville, TN Nashville Convention and 2941 Lebanon Rd. Phone: 615-343-1704 or 615-322-0605 Visitors Bureau Nashville, TN 37243-0442 161 Fourth Avenue North Fax: 615-343-1382 Phone: 615-532-1550 E-mail: [email protected] Nashville, TN 37219 Website: www.vanderbilt.edu/ans/ Nashville, TN *Special Note: If you are looking finearts/gallery.html Phone: 615-259-4700 for accommodations in Nashville, Website: www.nashvillecvb.com get a list of Bed & Breakfasts. You War Memorial Building may find one in a fascinating Donelson/Hermitage Completed in 1925, this building historic home that provides a great Chamber of Commerce contains a memorial to Tennesseans stay. 5653 First Boulevard, #740 who died in World War I, and the Hermitage, TN 37076 Website: Military History branch of the State Phone: 615-883-7896 or 615-885-1891 Metropolitan Government of Museum. Free admission. Nashville and Davidson County Legislative Plaza www.nashville.org Nashville, TN Phone: 615-532-4826

DECATUR COUNTY - DECATURVILLE

Today highways that closely follow Places Visitor Information the trail are marked with official Clifton Ferry markers, and historic sites lie along Decatur County Chamber of One of the last fully operational the trail. Contact the National Park Commerce ferries in Tennessee, it connects Service and the local Chamber of P.O. Box 245 Wayne and Decatur counties. Commerce for specific information. Parsons, TN 38363 Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 Long Distance Trails Phone: 731-847-4202 Group Office, Santa Fe Perryville National Park Service Wildlife Management Area P.O. Box 728 Phone: 731-687-3444 Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728

Trail of Tears Phone: 505-988-6888 National Historic Trail E-mail: [email protected] In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Cherokees were forced to leave tearsnht.html their homes in the southeastern states and move to the territory that would become Oklahoma.

Events Places Visitor Information

July Appalachian Center for Crafts Smithville-DeKalb County Regional art education center and Chamber of Commerce Smithville Fiddlers' Jamboree gallery. P.O. Box 64 Weekend closest to July 4th 1560 Craft Center Drive Smithville, TN 37166 Competition in numerous music Smithville, TN 37166 Phone: 615-597-4163 and dance categories, including the Phone: 615-597-6801 or 931-372-3051 E-mail: [email protected] National Championships for Website: www.dekalbtn.com country musicians age 12 and Edgar Evins State Rustic Park under. Free admission. This area was once used by the Upper Cumberland Smithville, TN Indians for hunting deer, bear, and Tourism Association Phone: 615-597-8500 or 615-597-4163 buffalo. It has steep bluffs and P.O. Box 2411 Website: narrow ridges. Cookeville, TN 38502 www.dekalbtn.com/jamboree.htm 1630 Edgar Evins State Park Road Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Silver Point, TN 38582-7917 August Website: Phone: 931-858-2446 Website: Smithville and Center Hill Lake Log Jam www.smithvilletn.com First weekend www.state.tn.us/environment/ Log rolling, crosscut sawing, bow parks/edgar/ sawing, log burling, log toss, and Pea Ridge more competitions. Free Wildlife Management Area admission. Phone: 931-484-9571 Edgar Evins State Rustic Park

Silver Point, TN Phone: 800-250-8619 or 931-858-2114

DICKSON COUNTY - CHARLOTTE

Charlotte Festival Events July Fourth Saturday April White Bluff Festival and Charlotte, TN Fiddlers Contest Phone: 615-789-4184 Spring Wildflower Festival July 4 Montgomery Bell State Park October Phone: 615-446-2349 Burns, TN Cumberland Furnace Fall Festival Phone: 615-797-9052 Dickson County Farm Tour Second Saturday Website: Third Wednesday Phone: 615-446-2349 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 615-446-2349 parks/montbell/events.htm November Dickson Saddle & Bridle Club Taste of Town Horse Show Christmas in the Country Second Thursday Fourth Thursday First weekend Phone: 615-446-2349 Phone: 615-446-2349 Phone: 615-446-2349

May August December

Old Timer's Day Lights Along the Cumberland Cumberland Furnace First weekend Weekends Christmas in the Village Talent contest, quilt show, Phone: 615-446-2349 First Saturday horseshoe tournament, and more. Phone: 615-446-2349 Free admission.

Dickson, TN Phone: 615-446-2349

Cunningham Bluegrass Festival Memorial Day weekend Phone: 615-446-2349 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 30 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Frank G. Clement Birthplace Old Spencer Mill Places Frank Clement was a lawyer, FBI This 1800s gristmill, made of Charlotte agent, soldier, and governor of double French burrstone, grinds This town's square features over 20 Tennessee. corn and flour. Call about living historic buildings from the 19th P.O. Box 310 history programs. and early 20th centuries, including Dickson, TN 37055 399 Old Spencer Mill Road the oldest working courthouse in Phone: 615-446-2313 Burns, TN Tennessee (1833). Free brochure. Phone: 800-595-1942, PIN #7176 Grand Old Hatchery Charlotte, TN or 615-412-5169 A place to participate in or just listen Phone: 615-789-4184 to country music performances on The Renaissance Center Civil War Railroad Saturday evenings. Features an interactive 3D domed Several military sites lie along the 113 South Main Street theater, artistic productions, the railroad that passes through Dickson, TN Michael Faraday Science Theatre, a Cheatham, Dickson, and Humphreys Phone: 615-446-1179 or 615-797-3204 space shuttle replica, three Counties, generally following the airplanes, and an art gallery, plus Great Ruskin and Jewel Caves course of Highway 70. Many of the instructional programs in the fine Ruskin Cave is historically known as sites are on private property, so you arts, computers, and multimedia. "The World's Largest Underground must get permission to visit them. 855 Highway 46 South Ballroom." Jewel Cave is alleged to Free brochure. P.O. Box 608 have "The World's Most Beautiful Phone: 615-446-2349 Dickson, TN 37056-0608 and Best Lit Formations". E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 888-700-2300 or 615-740-5600 2855 Yellow Creek Road Fax: 615-740-5618 Cumberland Furnace Dickson, TN E-mail: [email protected] Contains over 20 buildings related Ruskin Cave Phone: 615-763-6269 Website: www.rcenter.org to the iron industry of the 1800s, Jewel Cave Phone: 615-763-0389 including Montgomery Bell's office, Montgomery Bell State Park the furnace site, a railroad depot, This area once hosted a large iron Visitor Information and the Drouillard Mansion. Free industry. The Cumberland admission. Presbyterian Church Birthplace Dickson County Chamber of 1044 Old Highway 48 North Shrine is also in the park. Commerce Tourism Committee Cumberland Furnace, TN Highway 70 119 Highway 17 East Phone: 615-446-2349 or 615-446-1655 P.O. Box 39 P.O. Box 339 E-mail: [email protected] Dickson, TN 37055 Burns, TN 37029 Five Rivers Creative Gallery Phone: 615-797-9052 Phone: 615-446-2349 Features paintings, stained glass, Fax: 615-797-3722 Fax: 615-441-3112 quilt crafts, dolls, and more, made Website: E-mail: [email protected] by Tennesseans. Free admission. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Website: www.dicksonchamber.citysearch.com Montgomery Bell State Park parks/montbell/ Highway 70 Burns, TN Phone: 615-797-2569

DYER COUNTY - DYERSBURG

September Events Places Newbern Depot Days April Emerson E. Parks Covered Bridge Last Saturday Built by Mr. Parks in 1904. Newbern, TN Dogwood Festival Trimble Community Park Phone: 731-627-2961 or Third weekend Trimble, TN Music, a car show, arts and crafts, 731-627-3520 Phone: 731-285-3433 and more. November Dyersberg, TN Ernest Rice, Sr. Phone: 731-285-5767 Veterans Day Parade Wildlife Management Area

November 11 Phone: 731-696-3197

Phone: 731-285-3433

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 31 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Lenox Bridge Okeena Park The Great River Road The only surviving "swing span, Includes a walking trail and other Promotes historic sites and pony Pratt through truss" bridge, recreational activities. attractions along the Mississippi built in 1917. Free admission. Country Club Blvd. from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Lakewood Subdivision Dyersburg, TN Free brochure. State Route 182 Mississippi River Parkway Dyersburg, TN Strahl Memorial Commission A Confederate cannon marks the Phone: 731-285-8188 P.O. Box 59159 grave of Brigadier General Otho Minneapolis, MN 55459-8207 Moss Island French Strahl, who was mortally Phone: 612-212-2560 Wildlife Management Area wounded at the Battle of Franklin E-mail: mrpc@mississippi- Phone: 731-696-3197 in 1864. river.com Old City Cemetery Website: www.mississippi- Museum of Magic & History Dyersburg, TN

Collection of magic tricks and river.com memorabilia related to Tigrett Wildlife Website: ventriloquism, juggling, and other Management Area Dyer County Online performing arts. Also features Phone: 731-696-3197 www.dyercounty.com items belonging to clown Emmett White Lake Refuge Kelley, Jr., of Dyersburg. Court Street Wildlife Management Area Phone: 731-696-3197 Dyersburg, TN Phone: 731-287-9173 or 731-288-0104

E-mail: [email protected] Visitor Information Newbern's Depot Amtrak stop and railroad museum. Dyersburg/Dyer County Free admission. Chamber of Commerce East Main Street 2455 Lake Road Newbern, TN P.O. Box 747 Phone: 731-627-3221 Dyersburg, TN 38025-0747 Phone: 731-285-3433 Fax: 731-286-4926

FAYETTE COUNTY - SOMERVILLE

Events September November

February Fayette County Cotton Festival Home for the Holidays September Friday and Saturday after National Field Trials Phone: 901-465-8690 Thanksgiving Championship/ Train rides, arts and crafts, food, October Bird Dog Championship and holiday lights. Ames Plantation Architectural Treasures of Phone: 901-465-9500 Grand Junction, TN Fayette County December Phone: 901-878-1067 Tour historic homes, churches,

May businesses, and public buildings Holiday Tour of Homes from the 19th and early 20th Features carriage rides and tours of Spring Music Festival centuries. several historic homes and churches. Old time traditional music Fayette County Chapter, A.P.T.A Somerville, TN concerts, plus arts and crafts. Somerville, TN Phone: 901-465-7300

Williston, TN Phone: 901-465-8690 Phone: 901-465-8646 Cultural Resource Field Day June Enjoy a day at Ames Plantation learning about the history and Music in the Park culture of the area. Watch Each Thursday numerous demonstrations of Somerville, TN traditional skills. Phone: 901-465-9500 Grand Junction, TN Phone: 901-878-1067

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 32 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Places Ghost River Tour and Guide Wolf River Company Wildlife Management Area Ames Plantation Enjoy the peaceful scenic beauty as Phone: 901-423-5725

This plantation is an Agricultural you glide down the sharp turns and Experiment Station of the around the sunken logs of the Wolf University of Tennessee River. Visitor Information conducting agricultural and Moscow, TN historical projects. It is privately Phone: 901-465-2975 Fayette County owned and operated by the Chamber of Commerce Trustees of the Hobart Ames Somerville Town Square 170 W. Court Square Foundation. Visit historic sites such as the P.O. Box 411 4275 Ellington Road Fayette County Courthouse, built in Somerville, TN 38068 P.O. Box 389 1925, and the Farmers Hardware, Phone: 901-465-8690 Grand Junction, TN 38039 which has been in continuous E-mail: Phone: 901-878-1067 operation since 1882. Fascinating [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] objects line the wall of the hardware Website: Website: www.amesplantation.org store, and it has a brass cash register www.fayettecountychamber.com

from the 1890s. Free admission. Clark Conservation See More on Scenic Highway 64 Somerville, TN Features historic sites, attractions, State Natural Area Phone: 901-465-8690 and events in southwestern Ghost River State Natural Area Town of LaGrange Tennessee. Free brochure. Features many churches and Hardin County Tourism antebellum homes. 507 Main Street Phone: 901-878-1246 Savannah, TN 38372 Phone: 800-552-3866

FENTRESS COUNTY - JAMESTOWN

Jamestown Jamboree Great Pumpkin Festival and Events Courthouse Square Weigh-Off March Jamestown, TN Allardt, TN Phone: 931-879-9948 Alvin C. York Shooting Match September Fax: 931-879-7125 Pall Mall, TN E-mail: [email protected] Old Timers Day Music Festival April Jamming and buck dancing, ballad Website: members.aol.com/ signing, and old time fiddling and TNpumpkin/fest.html History Week and Round-Up bluegrass. Muddy Pond Molasses Stir-Off Jamestown, TN Pickett State Park and Forest (see September) July Jamestown, TN

Phone: 931-879-5821 Chicken Festival Website: Places Fentress County Fairground www.state.tn.us/environment/

Jamestown, TN parks/pickett/events.htm Allardt

Fentress County Horse Show Muddy Pond Molasses Stir-Off German settler Bruno Gernt founded Fentress County Fairground Mennonite workers press molasses this community in the 1880s. He Jamestown, TN from cane and stir it off using mule helped develop agriculture and power and boilers. industry in the county. His home still Bluegrass Festival Muddy Pond Community stands, along with other buildings Fentress County Fairground Phone: 931-445-7829 from the period.

Jamestown, TN October Big South Fork National River August and Recreation Area Bacara's Oktoberfest 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor 4564 Leatherwood Road Celebration with German food and Outdoor Sale Oneida, Tennessee 37841 music. Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Phone: 423-569-9778 Jamestown, TN E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nps.gov/biso/ Phone: 800-484-8747, ext. 2164 or Website: 931-879-7121 www.jamestowntn.org/worlds.htm

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 33 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Colditz Cove State Natural Area Muddy Pond Community Wilder-Davidson Mining Camps Follow a trail among hemlock, This Mennonite community operates Though many of the buildings are mountain laurel, and rhododendron several stores and workshops. no longer standing, this area has to the 60-foot high Northrup Falls. Off Highway 62 historical and natural attractions. Highway 52 East Between Clarkrange and Monterey Highway 85 Allardt, TN Phone: 931-445-7829 Between Clarkrange and Wilder

Phone: 931-879-9948 Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Pickett State Park and Forest

Cumberland Mountain This park has unusual rock General Store formations, natural bridges, Visitor Information Antiques, collectibles, and an old- numerous caves, and the remains of fashioned ice cream parlor. Indian occupation. Fentress County 6807 South York Highway 4605 Pickett Park Highway Chamber of Commerce Clarkrange, TN Jamestown, TN 38556-4141 114 Central Avenue West Phone: 931-863-3880 Phone: 931-879-5821 P.O. Box 1294 Website: Dale Hollow Lake Jamestown, TN 38556 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Fishing and water recreation. parks/pickett/ Phone: 931-879-7511 or 931-243-3136 Fax: 931-879-6767 E-mail: [email protected] East Fork Stables Sgt. Alvin C. York Website: www.jamestowntn.org One hundred miles of horse trails. State Historic Park Bring your own horse. Alvin York received a dozen medals Cumberlands of Tennessee 3958 South York Highway for his action in World War I. This Heritage Trail Jamestown, TN park includes his family farm and the P.O. Box 8 P.O. Box 156 grist mill he operated on the Wolf Rugby, TN 37733 Allardt, TN 38504 River. A museum contains wartime Phone: 423-628-2441 Phone: 800-978-7245 or 931-879-4099 and family memorabilia. Interpretive Website: www.cumberlands.org Fax: 931-879-4099 programs can be arranged in E-mail: [email protected] advance, at times with Alvin York's Upper Cumberland Website: son Andrew. Tourism Association P.O. Box 2411 users.multipro.com/eastfork Highway 127 Pall Mall, TN 38577 Cookeville, TN 38502 Mark Twain Park Phone: 931-879-6456 Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Mark Twain's parents were among Website: the early settlers of Jamestown. The www.state.tn.us/environment/ park features a wooden statue of parks/sgtyork/ Twain, a spring, and a flower garden. Jamestown, TN Southeast Pack Trips, Inc. Custom horseback riding Mountaineer Craft Center adventures. Over 100 artists showcase their work 299 Dewey Burks Road in the historic dormitory building on Jamestown, TN the York Institute Campus. Phone: 879-2260 Highway 127 Jamestown, TN Twin Arches State Natural Area

Phone: 931-879-4603

FRANKLIN COUNTY - WINCHESTER

All Saints' Chapel Events This chapel was built with Belvidere Market Established in the early 1900s as a July Tennessee sandstone. Stained glass windows tell the history of the farm equipment supply store, the Sewanee Music Festival school, and the Shapard Tower Market now offers locally-made Every weekend contains the 56-bell Leonidas crafts and collectibles. Free Sewanee, TN Memorial Carillon. admission. 6334 Davy Crockett Highway University of the South Belvidere, TN Places 735 University Avenue Phone: 931-967-3872 Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 AEDC & Woods Reservoir Refuge Phone: 931-598-1286 Carter State Natural Area Wildlife Management Area E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-967-6101 Website: www.sewanee.edu Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 34 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cowan Railroad Museum Old Jail Museum This 1915 restored depot features Built in 1897, this building served Tullahoma Campaign Driving Tour memorabilia, a 1920s locomotive, as a jail until 1972. Features Indian Between June 23 and July 4 of caboose, and other rail exhibits. artifacts, Civil War memorabilia, 1863, Union forces battled the Free admission. Dinah Shore memorabilia, and Confederates back toward 102 Front Street other historical items used by the Chattanooga. This 130-mile Cowan, TN 37318 sheriffs who operated the jail. driving tour takes you to several Phone: 931-967-6788 or 931-967-7365 Contact the museum about sites in Coffee, Bedford, Franklin, "educational field trip" pricing. and Grundy counties that relate to Falls Mill & Country Store 400 Dinah Shore Boulevard the conflict. The tour begins in Built in 1873 as a cotton and Winchester, TN 37398 Beech Grove, Coffee County, and woolen factory and later used as a ends in Monteagle, Grundy Phone: 931-967-0524 cotton gin and a woodworking County. Free brochure. shop, this structure now operates Natural Bridge State Natural Area Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 as a water-powered grain mill. It E-mail: [email protected] or also features hand looms, spinning Oldham Theatre [email protected] wheels, and a collection of 19th- Restored 1948 building. Website: www.cyber- Winchester, TN century power looms and carding time.com/tnbkrds/default.htm machines. Stone-ground flour and Phone: 931-967-2516 University Gallery meal are available for purchase in Polly Crockett Gravesite the country store. Guerry Hall, University of the South Davy Crockett and his first wife, Georgia Avenue 134 Falls Mill Road Polly Finlay, settled with their Belvidere, TN Mail: 735 University Avenue children in Franklin County in 1812. Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 Phone: 931-469-7161 Polly died in 1815, and a small park E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-598-1976 or 931-598-1304 surrounds her gravesite. Tennessee Website: Website: www.fallsmill.com Historical Markers for the gravesite www.sewanee.edu/Gallery/gallery Franklin State Forest and the Crockett homestead are on Over ten miles of horse trails. Highway 64 near Belvidere. Wild Heart Ranch Trails for hiking and horse-riding. P.O. Box 68 Rebel's Rest Winchester, TN 37398 Bring your own horse. Major R. Fairbanks, a founder of 1070 Old Sewanee Road Phone: 931-962-1140 or 931-598-5507 the University of the South, built P.O. Box 130 Greasy Cove Trail Rides this house in 1886. Sewanee, TN 37375 Horse and wagon rides. Phone: 423-837-0849 Robinson's Apple Orchard & 296 Keith Lane E-mail: [email protected] Huntland, TN 37345 Bakery One thousand apple trees produce Phone: 800-827-0276 or 931-469-1333 twelve varieties of apples. Website: edge.edge.net/~jwalker/ Visitor Information 2978 Robinson Creek Road

Hawkins Cove Huntland, TN Franklin Co. Chamber of Commerce State Natural Area Phone: 931-469-7940 or 931-469-0086 44 Chamber Way

P.O. Box 280 Hundred Oaks Castle South Cumberland State Recreation Area Winchester, TN 37398 Built during the 19th-century, this Phone: 931-967-6788 or 931-967-9983 house was home to Governor Grundy Lakes in this area is site of the Lone Rock Coke Ovens where Fax: 931-967-9418 Albert S. Marks. It was damaged E-mail: [email protected] by fire in 1990, but group tours are convict labor converted coal to coke. Waterfalls, a natural bridge, Website: www.fccc-tn.org available at times. 100 Oaks Place and the Great Stone Door. Tennessee's Backroads Heritage Winchester, TN 37398 Route 1, Box 2196 300 South Jackson Street Monteagle, TN 37356 Phone: 931-967-0100 or 931-967-1377 Tullahoma, TN 37388 Phone: 931-924-2980 Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446

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570 Tims Ford Drive Treasures and More on Highway 64 Winchester, TN 37390-4136 This free brochure highlights Phone: 931-962-1183 attractions in five counties along Website: the Alabama border. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 931-967-6788 parks/timsford/ Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 35 © 2003 The Notgrass Company GIBSON COUNTY - TRENTON

October Obion River Events Wildlife Management Area Davy Crockett Days Celebration May Phone: 731-749-5587 Rutherford, TN West Tennessee Strawberry Phone: 731-665-7166 Trenton Teapot Museum

Festival F. C. Freed's collection of over 500 First full week porcelain teapots from Asia, Africa, Places and Europe. This type of teapot Strawberry foods, storytelling, music, parades, horse and car Crenshaw Christmas Tree was used in the 1800s to brew and shows, carnival, and more. Farm & Barn serve floral and herbal teas and Humboldt, TN 325 Poplar Corner Road keep a vigil light in a sickroom. Phone: 731-784-1842 Humboldt, TN Free admission. 309 South College Street Trenton Teapot Festival Phone: 800-824-6360 or 731-855- 9397 P.O. Box 464 Parades, sports, arts, crafts, and Trenton, TN 38382 fireworks. Davy Crockett Cabin Phone: 731-855-0973 or Trenton, TN Davy Crockett came to Gibson 731-855-2013 Phone: 731-855-0973 County in the fall of 1822. This recreated cabin contains many logs West Tennessee Summer Agricultural Museum from his original home. It has Kenton White Squirrel furnishings from Crockett's era, This museum houses exhibits on Homecoming including pieces donated by the pioneer life and an extensive collection Gospel singing, grand parade, and Crockett family. The grave of of farm tools spanning two centuries of fireworks. Davy's mother, Rebecca Hawking agricultural development. Traditional Kenton, TN Crockett, is located behind the cabin. skills and special events are featured Phone: 731-749-5767 219 North Trenton Street throughout the year. Free admission. Rutherford, TN 3 Ledbetter Gate Road July Milan, TN 38358 Phone: 731-665-6195 Phone: 731-686-8067 Dyer Station Celebration Dyer Fruit Box E-mail: [email protected] Arts and crafts, quilt show, doll Manufacturing Company Website: show, and checkers and rook One of the oldest factories in web.utk.edu/~mlnnotil/museum tournaments. Tennessee, still owned by the family Dyer, TN that founded it over 100 years ago. West Tennessee Phone: 731-692-3352 Tours are not offered, but it is Regional Art Museum Features the Caldwell Fine Art Doodle Soup Festival interesting to drive by. Collection of 18th-20th century Sample the hot, spicy, and savory 130 Parkview Drive folk, realistic, impressionistic, dish and enjoy other activities. Dyer, TN contemporary, abstract, and ethnic Bradford, TN Gibson County Courthouse art. Also has changing local and No-Till Field Day Completed in 1901. A statue of regional art displays. No-till farming seminars, concerts, Davy Crockett faces south. 1200 Main Street fashion shows, and a car show. Trenton, TN Humboldt, TN 38343 Phone: 731-784-1787 Milan, TN Horns Bluff Refuge Fax: 731-784-1573 Phone: 731-686-7362 Wildlife Management Area E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 731-696-3197 August Website: www.wtrac.tn.org The Laster's Bluegrass Opry International Washer Pitchin' Family-style bluegrass show with Contest Third week regional bands, square dancers, Adult and children's washer solo artists, and more every fourth pitching contests. Saturday except in December. Yorkville, TN Free admission. Phone: 731-643-6220 Old High School Gym Highway 79 Gibson, TN Phone: 731-686-7494

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 36 © 2003 The Notgrass Company West Tennessee Strawberry Humboldt Chamber of Commerce Visitor Information Festival Historical Museum 1200 Main Street Exhibits on Humboldt history and Greater Gibson County Humboldt, TN 38343 memorabilia from the West Chamber of Commerce Phone: 731-784-1842 Tennessee Strawberry Festival, P.O. Box 464 Milan Chamber of Commerce which began in 1934. Trenton, TN 38382 1061 South Main 1200 Main Street Phone: 731-855-0973 Milan, TN 38358 P.O. Box 35 E-mail: [email protected] Humboldt, TN 38343 Phone: 731-686-7494 Fax: 731-686-7495 Phone: 731-784-1787 or 731-784-1122 Website: Fax: 731-784-1573 Gibson County Net

www.gibsoncountynet.com

GILES COUNTY - PULASKI

August American Home Entertainment Events Museum Vaudeville Days at the Reid Theater April Traces American entertainment from Daily shows, vaudeville acts, silent 1890 to 1999. Free admission. Walking Horse Show movies with piano accompaniment, 152 Case Road

and more. Prospect, TN May Lynneville, TN Phone: 931-424-3734 Phone: 931-363-3789 Nifty 50s Celebration E-mail: [email protected] First weekend Ardmore Crepemyrtle Festival Antique car parade, music, buggy Ardmore Cheese Factory rides, and more. July 26366 Main Street Lynneville, TN Ardmore, TN PACE Antique Car Show Phone: 931-363-3789 Phone: 931-427-2191

Iron Horse Picnic Railroad Days Brown-Daly-Horne House Labor Day weekend (Colonial Bank) Walking Horse Show Salute to past and present railroad Built in 1855 in Queen Anne style. employees. Food, music, dancing, Free admission. June and more. 307 West Madison Street Horseless Carriage Days Lynneville, TN Pulaski, TN Phone: 931-363-3789 Phone: 931-363-1582 Old Time Bluegrass Festival Bluegrass bands, clogging, comedy October Church of the Messiah and family entertainment, and more. Antique Tractor and Erected in 1887. Giles County Agricultural Park 114 North Third Street Machinery Show Pulaski, TN Pulaski, TN Phone: 931-363-4666 Milky Way Festival Phone: 931-363-1454 Parade, hay rides, food and Old Timer's Day entertainment, and tours of Milky First Presbyterian Church First weekend Way Farms. Built in 1882 by a church that had Blacksmithing, antique cars, buggy Lynneville, TN been meeting since 1811. rides, and more. Phone: 931-363-3789 202 South Second Street Lynneville, TN Website: Pulaski, TN Phone: 931-363-3789 www.lynnvillerailroad.com/ Phone: 931-363-2554

Saddle Club Rodeo milkywayfestival.html First United Methodist Church

Built in the late 1890s. July November 200 West Jefferson Street

Walking Horse Show Nutcracker Festival Pulaski, TN

Phone: 931-363-2595 December

Living Nativity

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Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 37 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Giles County Courthouse Milky Way Farms Thomas Martin House Completed in 1909, this courthouse Built in 1932 by Frank C. Mars, (Community Bank) features a tall rotunda and elaborate founder of Mars Candy Company. Built in 1842 and used as a hotel in ornamentation. Nearby are a statue Available for accommodations and the early 1900s. Free admission. of Sam Davis, a well used by the tours by appointment. 302 South Second Street town in the 19th-century, and 1864 Milky Way Road Pulaski, TN examples of 18th- and 19th-century Pulaski, TN 38478 Phone: 931-363-3830

architecture. Phone: 931-363-9769 Public Square Old Graveyard Memorial Park Pulaski, TN Visitor Information A restored and beautified 19th- Phone: 931-363-5300 or 931-363-3789 century graveyard. Giles County Giles County Historic Site Tour Cemetery and South First Street Chamber of Commerce Driving tour of homes and sites Pulaski, TN 100 South Second Street around the county. Phone: 931-363-2516 or 931-363-3789 Pulaski, TN 38478

100 South 2nd Street Phone: 931-363-3789 Pulaski, TN Sam Davis Trail & Museum Sam Davis, a young Confederate E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 931-363-3789 Website: www.public.usit.net/gilecofc/ scout, was captured and executed

Giles County Historical Society by Union troops in Giles County in Treasures and More on Highway 64 and Museum 1863. A brochure available from This free brochure highlights County historical artifacts and the Chamber of Commerce attractions in five counties along genealogical records. Free describes a driving tour of two the Alabama border. admission. statues, a museum, and the Phone: 931-363-3789 122 South 2nd Street cemetery where he was buried, as P.O. Box 693 well as other Civil War sites in the Pulaski, TN 38478 county. Free admission. Phone: 931-363-2720 or 931-363-2873 Minor Hill and Pulaski, TN

Phone: 931-363-3789 Giles Heritage Theatre Professional dinner theatre in a bank. Soda Pop Junction 206 South 1st Street The Lynnville Pharmacy was built Pulaski, TN in 1860, and customers can still Phone: 931-363-2585 order at the soda fountain from around 1940. Lynnville Railroad Museum 141 Mill Street A reproduction railroad depot Lynnville, TN illustrates the railroad industry with Phone: 931-527-0007 exhibits and memorabilia displays. The train outside contains the Milky Way Farms Museum and more. Main Street P.O. Box 156 Lynnville, TN 38472 Phone: 931-363-3789 Website: www.lynnvillerailroad.com

Norris Lake & Dam Events Visitor Information Phone: 865-426-7461 July Grainger County Executive Tate's Springs P.O. Box 126 Tomato Festival A gazebo remains of the mineral Rutledge, TN 37861 Music, arts and crafts, and more. springs resort that flourished here Phone: 865-828-3513 Rutledge, TN in the late 1800s. Phone: 865-828-3513 Northeast Tennessee Bean Station, TN

Tourism Association Tennessee Wilderness Road 109 Fox Avenue Places A route through northeast P.O. Box 415 Tennessee that highlights the Jonesborough, TN 37659 Buffalo Springs natural beauty and history of the Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Wildlife Management Area region. Free brochure. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-828-4998 Phone: 865-828-5927 Website: www.netta.com Fax: 865-828-5212 Cherokee Lake & Dam E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-587-5604 Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/

GREENE COUNTY - GREENEVILLE

July October Events Buffalo Run Cruise-In Battle of Blue Springs April Antique car show. Civil War Re-enactment Civil War Encampment Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park In October of 1863, Union and Andrew Johnson Limestone, TN Confederate troops fought here for National Historic Site Phone: 423-257-6455 or 423-257-2167 control of an important southern Greeneville, TN Website: railroad. Phone: 423-638-3551 www.state.tn.us/environment/ John I. Myers Farm Website: parks/davyshp/events.htm Mosheim, TN www.nps.gov/anjo/ajnhs.htm Website: Horse Show greene.xtn.net/~gcp/battle.html May Baileyton, TN December Iris Festival Bluegrass and Gospel Music Fest Music, dance, crafts, and more. Chuckey, TN Andrew Johnson Homestead Free admission. Phone: 423-257-3802 Christmas Tour Greeneville, TN Free admission. August Phone: 423-638-4111 Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Davy Crockett Celebration Greeneville, TN Memorial Day Program Music, food, crafts, and more. Phone: 423-638-3551 May 30 Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park Website: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Limestone, TN www.nps.gov/anjo/ajnhs.htm Greeneville, TN Phone: 423-257-2167 or 423-257-2061 Phone: 423-638-3551 Andrew Johnson Birthday Website: Website: Commemoration www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.nps.gov/anjo/ajnhs.htm December 29 parks/davyshp/events.htm Andrew Johnson National Historic Site June Greeneville, TN September Mosheim Fun Fest Phone: 423-638-3551 Baileyton Celebration Mosheim, TN Website: Week after Labor Day www.nps.gov/anjo/ajnhs.htm

Baileyton, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 39 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Davy Crockett Birthplace State General Morgan Inn Places Park Four historic inns have been Andrew Johnson In a cabin on the banks of the connected and made into one hotel. Library and Museum Nolichucky River, Davy Crockett The earliest dates from the 1790s. President Andrew Johnson was a was born in 1786. A reconstruction Guest rooms and restaurant. trustee of Tusculum College from of a cabin similar to that one has 111 N. Main Street 1844 to 1875. He donated money been built and furnished in period Greeneville, TN for the construction in 1841 of the style. A museum presents Phone 1-800-223-2679 building which now houses this information about Crockett's life. General John Morgan Monument library and museum. His great- 1245 Davy Crockett Park Road Morgan was a Confederate General granddaughter donated the initial Limestone, TN 37681-5825 killed in Greeneville in 1864. artifacts. Free admission. Phone: 423-257-2167 or 423-257-2061 Courthouse Square Tusculum College Website: Greeneville, TN Tusculum, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 800-729-0256, ext. 348 or parks/davyshp/ Historic Greenville District 423-636-7348 Dickson-Williams Mansion Features a walking tour of over 25 E-mail: [email protected] William Dickson, a county native historic structures, including a Website: and the first postmaster of replica of the capitol of the State of www.tusculum.edu/museum/ Greeneville, built this house Franklin (1785-1788). johnson.html between 1815 and 1821. Both 115 Academy Street Greeneville, TN Andrew Johnson Confederate and Union officers Phone: 423-638-4111 National Historic Site used it during the Civil War, and Includes Johnson's tailor shop, two Confederate General John Hunt Lick Creek Bottoms of his houses, a museum, and the Morgan was killed here in 1864. Wildlife Management Area family cemetery. Free admission 108 North Irish Street Phone: 423-587-7037 during the Christmas Tour. Greeneville, TN 37744 College and Depot Streets Phone: 423-787-7746 or 423-638-4111 Nathanael Greene Museum P.O. Box 1088 Highlights the history of Greeneville Doak House Museum Greeneville, TN 37744-1088 and Greene County, and the lives of Home of Samuel Doak, co-founder of Phone: 423-638-3551 men such as John Sevier, Samuel Tusculum College. Depicts the Fax: 423-638-9194 Doak, Davy Crockett, and Andrew origins of the school and general Website: Johnson. Free admission. Tennessee history. Free admission. www.nps.gov/anjo/ajnhs.htm 101 West McKee Tusculum College Greeneville, TN 37743 Appalachian Trail Highway 107 Phone: 423-636-1558 Appalachian Trail Conference Tusculum, TN 799 Washington Street Phone: 800-729-0256, ext. 251 or Nolichucky Wildlife P.O. Box 807 423-636-8554 Management Area Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-587-7037 Phone: 304-535-6331 Website: Fax: 304-535-2667 www.tusculum.edu/museum/ Website: www.atconf.org doak.html Visitor Information

Cherokee National Forest Flintlock Farm Greene County Partnership Nolichucky Ranger Station Horse rides. 115 Academy Street 124 Austin Street, Suite 3 790 G'Fellers Road Greeneville, TN 37743 Greeneville, TN 37745 Chuckey, TN 37641 Phone: 423-638-4111 Phone: 423-638-4109 Phone: 423-257-2489 E-mail: 423-638-5345 Fax: 423-638-6599 E-mail: [email protected] Website: greene.xtn.net/~gcp Website: Northeast Tennessee www.r8web.com/cherokee/

Tourism Association Cumberland Presbyterian Church 109 Fox Avenue A cannonball from the Civil War P.O. Box 415 remains lodged in a wall of this Jonesborough, TN 37659 building. Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 201 North Main Street Website: www.netta.com Greeneville, TN Phone: 423-638-4119

Mountain Lake Glassworks The tour begins in Beech Grove, Events Hand-blown glassware, pottery, Coffee County, and ends in Spring bronze casting, and other fine Monteagle, Grundy County. Free crafts. Free admission. brochure. Wildflower Garden 340 Lake Road Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Beersheba Springs, TN Monteagle, TN E-mail: [email protected] or

July Phone: 931-592-5252 or 931-592-3171 [email protected]

Website: www.cyber-time.com/ Old Brown Museum Grundy Swiss Historical Society tnbkrds/default.htm Festival A family-owned country store has Last Saturday been converted into a community Wonder Cave This festival, held at the Swiss museum that features photo One of the largest and oldest Memorial School, features a tour of albums, scrap books, and other commercial caves in the south, the Swiss Colony, entertainment, material about Beersheba Springs. open since 1900. Approximately and more. Highway 56 7,000 feet in length, this cave is Beersheba Springs, TN known for its onyx formations, and September the average height is eight feet. Old Stone Bridges Route 1, Box 466 Mountaineer's Day Hand-cut stone arch highway Pelham, TN Labor Day weekend bridges built between 1905 and Phone: 931-467-3060 or 931-467-3521 Animal judging, country and 1920. Examples at Gruetli and Flat gospel music, games, and more. Branch.

Sculpture in Wood Visitor Information Jess Betschart's wood carving studio. Places Route 1, Box 1061 Grundy County Chamber of Commerce Artists' Studios Monteagle, TN 37356 P.O. Box 387 Contact the Chamber of Commerce Phone: 931-924-2970 Gruelti-Laager, TN 37339 for information on art and craft Savage Gulf Phone: 931-779-4050 studios in Monteagle. State Natural Area Phone: 931-924-5353 Monteagle Mountain South Cumberland Chamber of Commerce Beersheba Springs Hotel State Recreation Area 19 East College St. Built in 1850. Grundy Lakes in this area is the P.O. Box 353 Beersheba Springs, TN site of the Lone Rock Coke Ovens Monteagle, TN 37356 Phone: 931-692-3669 where locally mined coal was Phone: 931-924-5353 Dutch Maid Bakery converted to coke using convict Tennessee's Backroads Heritage Established in 1902 by Swiss labor from 1873 to 1896. The Park An organization composed of immigrants, this bakery has features waterfalls, a natural Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, and equipment from the 1920s and a bridge, and the Great Stone Door. Moore Counties, and the museum. Tours available by A museum contains exhibits on Cumberland Mountain area appointment. Free admission. local natural and cultural history. spreading from Monteagle to 111 Main Street Route 1, Box 2196 Beersheba Springs. P.O. Box 487 Monteagle, TN 37356 300 South Jackson Street Tracy City, TN 37387 Phone: 931-924-2980 or 931-924-2956 Tullahoma, TN 37388 Phone: 931-592-3171 Website: Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Website: www.dutchmaidbakery.com www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/socumb/ E-mail: [email protected] or Grundy Forest [email protected] State Natural Area Tullahoma Campaign Driving Tour Website: www.cyber-time.com/ Between June 23 and July 4 of tnbkrds/default.htm 1863, Union forces battled the Confederates back toward Chattanooga. This 130-mile driving tour takes you to several sites in Coffee, Bedford, Franklin, and Grundy counties that relate to the conflict.

Panther Creek State Park Events Places Legend says that Panther Creek and May Cherokee Park and Lake Panther Springs received their Highway 25E names from the claim of a Colonel International Festival Morristown, TN Bradley of Virginia. He said that Rose Center Phone: 423-586-5232 or 423-586-0260 while he was exploring the area, he Morristown, TN shot a panther, which fell into the Phone: 423-581-4330 or 423-586-6205 Crockett Tavern Museum spring.

A reconstruction of the tavern/home 2010 Panther Creek Park Road SpringFest built by John and Rebecca Crockett, Phone: 423-581-3047 Morristown, TN 37814 Davy Crockett's parents, featuring Phone: 423-587-7046 August authentic furnishings and utensils. Fax: 423-587-7047 2002 Morningside Drive Website: Davy Crockett Birthday Celebration P.O. Box 9 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Crockett Tavern Museum Morristown, TN 37815 parks/panther/ Morristown, TN Phone: 423-587-9900 or 423-586-6382 Phone: 423-581-4876 or 423-587-9900

Morristown October Contains buildings from the late Visitor Information

Mountain Makins' Festival 1800s and early 1900s, and an historic cemetery. Morristown Area Demonstrations, music, dancing, Chamber of Commerce Phone: 423-586-6382 storytelling, and other activities. 825 West First North Street Rose Center Rose Center P.O. Box 9 Morristown, TN An 1892 school building houses Morristown, TN 37815 Phone: 423-581-4330 or 423-586-6205 exhibits about Melville M. Murrell Phone: 423-586-6382

December and his 1877 flying machine, and Fax: 423-586-6576 other area history; an art gallery; E-mail: [email protected] Christmas on Main Street and special classes and programs. Website: Phone: 423-586-5287 Free admission. www.morristownchamber.com 442 West Second & North Streets Gingerbread House Contest P.O. Box 1976 Phone: 423-586-5287 Morristown, TN 37816-1976 Phone: 423-581-4330 or 423-586-6205 E-mail: [email protected]

HAMILTON COUNTY - CHATTANOOGA

Kaleidoscope Children's Festival Spring Blossoms Events Musicians, jugglers, clowns, (see May) January storytellers, and hands-on activities. June Near the Creative Discovery Enchanted Garden of Lights Museum. Nightfall Concert Series (see November) (see May) Chattanooga, TN

April Nightfall Concert Series River Reunion and Artist Walk (see May) Spring Blossoms Friday nights Rock City Gardens Free admission. Lookout Mountain, GA Miller Plaza

Phone: 706-820-2531 Chattanooga, TN

May River Reunion and Artist Walk Bluegrass, folk, and blues music, Bessie Smith Traditional and artist demonstrations. Dixieland Jazz Festival Chattanooga, TN Chattanooga, TN Phone: 423-842-6748

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 42 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Riverbend Festival Celebration of Fine Crafts Places Live country, jazz, blues, pop, folk, Special crafts and demonstrations, rock, and classical music, plus fine hands-on activities for children, live Audubon Acres & arts exhibits, family activities, and music, and more. Free admission. MacLellan Island Sanctuary more. Free admission. Ross' Landing A wildlife sanctuary with trails, Chattanooga, TN Chattanooga, TN wildflowers, a suspension bridge, a Phone: 423-756-2212 Phone: 615-665-0502 Native American village site, and a Fax: 423-756-2719 reconstructed 1700s Cherokee cabin. Fall Foliage E-mail: 900 North Sanctuary Road Rock City Gardens [email protected] Chattanooga, TN 37421 Lookout Mountain, GA Website: www.friendsofthefestival.com Phone: 423-892-1499 Phone: 706-820-2531 E-mail: [email protected] July November Battles for Chattanooga Museum Nightfall Concert Series A three-dimensional electronic (see May) Fall Foliage (see October) battle map and a collection of Pops in the Park weapons and other artifacts provide July 4 Tellabration an overview of the Civil War, Chattanooga Symphony Pops Weekend before Thanksgiving especially the November 1863 Orchestra and fireworks. Participants around the world battles around Chattanooga. gather in their communities for a Chickamauga Battlefield 1110 East Brow Road time of storytelling. Lookout Mountain, TN 37350 River Reunion and Artist Walk Chattanooga, TN Phone: 423-821-2812 (see May) Phone: 423-875-4966 E-mail: [email protected] Bluff View Art District August Artists and chefs create and Website: www.tellabration.org demonstrate their art forms in the 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Enchanted Garden of Lights Outdoor Sale galleries, shops, and restaurants that November to January feature their work. Free admission. Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Lights, holiday displays, and music. E-mail: [email protected] 411 East Second Street Rock City Gardens Chattanooga, TN 37403 Website: Lookout Mountain, GA www.jamestowntn.org/worlds.htm Phone: 800-725-8338 or 423-265-5033

Phone: 706-820-2531 E-mail: [email protected]

Nightfall Concert Series Winter Days and Lights Booker T. Washington State Park (see May) Family activities and concerts. 5801 Champion Road Chattanooga, TN 37416 River Reunion and Artist Walk Free admission. Phone: 423-894-4955 (see May) Chattanooga, TN Fax: 423-855-9879 December Website: September www.state.tn.us/environment/ Chattanooga Choo Choo Nightfall Concert Series parks/bookert/ Victorian Holidays Open House (see May) Strolling Dickens carolers, food, C. C. Bond Gallery

October and more. Chattanooga State Technical Chattanooga, TN Community College Fall Color Cruise and Folk 4501 Amnicola Highway Enchanted Garden of Lights Festival Chattanooga, TN 37406 (see November) Music, dance, crafts, and food. Free Phone: 423-697-4424 admission. Winter Days and Lights Challenger Learning Center Chattanooga, TN (see November) Simulated space missions, tours, Southern Folk Festival and exhibits teach about math and

Folk music and dance from science. Louisiana, Mississippi, Africa, University of Tennessee at South America, and India. Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN 855 East 5th Street Phone: 423-756-2787 Chattanooga, TN 37403 Phone: 423-755-4126 E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 43 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Chattanooga African-American Chattanooga Veterans George Ayers Cress Gallery of Art Museum & Research Center/ Administration National Cemetery Changing exhibitions of Bessie Smith Hall Over 12,000 Union soldiers were contemporary art. Portrays African-American reinterred in this cemetery from University of Tennessee-Chattanooga contributions to the growth of many Chattanooga battle sites. 615 McCallie Avenue Chattanooga and the United States. Four of the "Andrews' Raiders" Chattanooga, TN 37403 Also, exhibits, live music, food, and buried here were the first soldiers Phone: 423-755-4178 or 423-755-4464 educational programs highlight the to receive the Congressional Medal life and career of Bessie Smith and of Honor. Free admission. Harrison Bay State Park her blues music. 1200 Bailey Avenue 8411 Harrison Bay Road 200 East M. L. King Boulevard Chattanooga, TN Harrison, TN 37341 Chattanooga, TN 37403 Phone: 423-855-6590 Phone: 423-344-2272 or 423-344-6061 Website: Phone: 423-266-8658 or 423-757-0020 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 423-267-1076 or 423-267-2924 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Website: webusers.anet-stl.com/ Chickamauga and Chattanooga parks/harrison/ National Military Park ~afields/caam/caam.html Horsin' Around Carving School Established in 1890, this was the Chattanooga Choo Choo first National Military Park in the A carousel carving school dedicated During the early 1900s, United States. Covering portions of to preserving carousel art. Tours Chattanooga's Terminal Station Tennessee and Georgia, this park available. was a bustling center of activity. It features the Cravens House, two 3804 St. Elmo Avenue now serves as a hotel and visitors centers, trails with audio Chattanooga, TN Phone: 423-825-5616 entertainment area, with trolley tour tapes available, and various rides, a Model Railroad Museum, programs. Houston Museum of and gardens. Free admission. 3370 LaFayette Road Decorative Arts 1400 Market Street P.O. Box 2128 Features antiques and decorative Chattanooga, TN 37402 Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742 art from the 18th through 20th Phone: 800-872-2529 or 423-266-5000 Phone: 706-866-9241 centuries, including glass, Website: www.choochoo.com Website: www.nps.gov/chch/ porcelain, furniture, and textiles.

Chattanooga Regional Chickamauga 201 High Street History Museum Wildlife Management Area Chattanooga, TN 37403 Phone: 423-267-7176 Relates the history of Chattanooga Phone: 931-484-9571 and the lives of everyday people E-mail: [email protected] through artifacts, video, recreated Coolidge Park Website: www.chattanooga.net/ Watch the Tennessee River flow by, houston/ and animated scenes, and participatory activities. play in the interactive fountain, ride the carousel, and cross the world's Hunter Museum of American Art 400 Chestnut Street Located in the former home of Chattanooga, TN 37402-4903 longest pedestrian bridge, constructed in 1891. Free George Thomas Hunter, this Phone: 423-265-3247 museum houses a collection of admission. Chattanooga Theatre Centre 150 River Street American art and features touring One of the largest and oldest Chattanooga, TN 37402 exhibits. Artists include Andrew Wyeth, Mary Cassatt, Winslow community theaters in America. Phone: 423-757-2143 400 River Street Homer, and John Singer Sargent. P.O. Box 4023 Creative Discovery Museum 10 Bluff View Chattanooga, TN 37415 Learn about paleontology, music, Chattanooga, TN 37403-1197 Phone: 423-267-8534 or 423-267-8538 art, and inventions by doing them. Phone: 423-267-0968 Fax: 423-267-8617 321 Chestnut Street Fax: 423-267-9844 E-mail: [email protected] Chattanooga, TN 37402 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-756-2738 Website: www.huntermuseum.org Website: www.TheatreCentre.com E-mail: [email protected] The In-Town Gallery Website: www.cdmfun.org Showcases original paintings, Falling Water Falls jewelry, photographs, and other State Natural Area work by local artists. 26A Frazier Avenue Chattanooga, TN 37405 Phone: 423-267-9214

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 44 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Innovative Miniatures and Museum National Knife Museum Racoon Mountain Pumped Assembled dollhouses, electric Over 11,000 knives, swords, razors, Storage Project lightning, wood department, and other antique memorabilia. Explore the area around TVA's furniture, and Breyer horses, 7201 Shallowford Road 520-acre mountain lake, and stables, and accessories, plus a P.O. Box 21070 descend into the mountain to the miniature museum. Chattanooga, TN 37424 turbine room. 7616 Lee Highway Phone: 423-892-5007 Highway 41 Chattanooga, TN 37421 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-825-3100

Phone: 423-899-1903 National Medal of Honor Reflection Riding Arboretum & International Towing and Recovery Museum of Military History Botanical Gardens Hall of Fame & Museum Shares the history and preserves Arboretum and historic site with Exhibits of antique vehicles with the memory of those who have hundreds of native trees, shrubs, wrecker and towing equipment served in America's military and wildflowers, many of them dating back to 1916, plus a conflicts from the Revolutionary labeled for identification. collection of over 300 toy trucks. War to the present. 400 Garden Road 401 Broad Street 400 Georgia Avenue Chattanooga, TN Chattanooga, TN 37402 Chattanooga, TN Phone: 423-821-9582 Phone: 423-267-3132 Phone: 423-267-1737 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.towingmusuem.com Website: Website:

www.smoky.com/medalofhonor/ virtual.chattanooga.net/rriding Lookout Mountain Incline Railway A steep cable-car ride up Lookout National Memorial for the Unborn River Gallery and Sculpture Garden Mountain. Features historical markers, a Fine art, sculpture, and crafts by 827 East Brow Road garden, and a granite "Wall of regional, national, and international Lookout Mountain, TN 37350 Names" with remembrance plates artists. Free admission. Phone: 423-821-4224 placed by family members in honor 400 East Second Street of unborn children. Chattanooga, TN 37403 Lookout Mountain's Point Park 6230 Vance Road Phone: 423-267-7353 On the site of the Civil War Battle Chattanooga, TN 37421 of Chattanooga, this park contains Rock City Gardens Phone: 800-505-5565 or 423-954-9552 monuments, markers, and a Developed in the 1920s and 30s as museum commemorating the North Chickamauga a tourist attraction, Rock City has soldiers who died at that "Battle Pocket Wilderness extensive trails and artistic Above the Clouds". Two trails wind along North displays. East Brow Road Chickamauga Creek. Hogskin 1400 Patten Road Lookout Mountain, TN Branch Loop is a 1.5 mile trail that Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 Phone: 423-821-7786 takes about one hour to traverse. Phone: 706-820-2531 Stevenson Trail is about 7.8 miles E-mail: [email protected] Mary Walker Historical & roundtrip, and it takes about 5 Website: www.seerockcity.com Educational Foundation hours. Free admission. Features a series of historical Phone: 423-336-7424 Ruby Falls exhibits, including the life of Mary Website: The caverns of Lookout Mountain Walker, a former slave who learned contain this 145-foot natural waterfall. www.bowater.com/paper.html to read and write in Chattanooga at This site also includes an observation the age of 117. Ooltewah Railroad Station deck and tower, and a recreation area. 3031 Wilcox Boulevard Ooltewah High School Campus 1720 South Scenic Highway Chattanooga, TN 37411 6123 Mountain View Road Chattanooga, TN 37409 Phone: 423-629-7651 or 423-622-3217 Ooltewah, TN 37363 Phone: 423-821-2544

Phone: 423-238-9003 Fax: 423-825-1958 The Mountain Opry Website: www.rubyfalls.com An acoustic country, bluegrass, Raccoon Mountain Crystal Caverns gospel, and mountain music show Walk through underground Shiloh Baptist Church every Friday night. Free admission. passageways, take a wild cave tour, Organized in 1866 by former slaves. Fairmount Road and pan for gemstones. 506 East 8th Street Signal Mountain, TN 319 West Hills Drive Chattanooga, TN Phone: 423-886-3252 Chattanooga, TN 37419 Phone: 423-267-3131 Phone: 800-823-2267 or 423-821-9403 E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 45 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Siskin Museum of Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant Religious and Ceremonial Art An operating railroad with displays Wildlife Management Area Eclectic collection of religious and an audio-visual show. Phone: 931-484-9571 artifacts from the 16th to the 20th 4119 Cromwell Road centuries. Free admission. Chattanooga, TN 37421 Warner Park Zoo One Siskin Plaza Phone: 423-894-8028 A variety of exotic animals and birds. Chattanooga, TN 37403 Fax: 423-894-8029 1254 East 3rd Street Chattanooga, TN 37404 Phone: 423-634-1700 or 423-634-1750 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-697-9722 Website: www.tvrail.com Southern Belle Riverboat Website: www.zoo.chattanooga.org Educational and sightseeing Tennessee Wildlife Center riverboat tours. Ask about special Educational exhibits and hands-on Wiley United Methodist Church dates and prices. activities teach about native wildlife. This building served as a hospital Chattanooga Riverboat Company 400 Garden Road during the Civil War, and a 201 Riverfront Parkway, Pier 2 Chattanooga, TN 37419 Methodist congregation bought it Chattanooga, TN 37402-1616 Phone: 423-821-1160 in 1867. 504 Lookout Street Phone: 800-766-2784 or 423-266-4488 Website: www.tnwildlifecenter.org E-mail: Chattanooga, TN [email protected] Tivoli Theatre and Phone: 423-756-5463 Memorial Auditorium Website: Two downtown theatres offering www.chattanoogariverboat.com Visitor Information Broadway shows, music, dance, and

Tennessee Aquarium and the Chattanooga Symphony. Chattanooga Area IMAX-3D Theater Office: 399 McCallie Avenue Convention and Visitors Bureau Numerous types of aquatic life and Chattanooga, TN 2 Broad Street engaging 3D films. Phone: 423-757-5042 Chattanooga, TN 37402

One Broad Street Phone: 800-322-3344 or 423-756-8687 Chattanooga, TN 37401-2048 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Website: www.chattanoogafun.com Phone: 800-262-0695 E-mail: [email protected] In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Allied Arts Artsline Website: www.tnaqua.org Cherokees were forced to leave Information on theatrical, musical, their homes in the southeastern and other performing arts events in Tennessee Civil War Museum states and move to the territory Chattanooga. Interactive exhibits and that would become Oklahoma. Phone: 800-322-3344 or 423-756-2787 presentations, artifacts from the war, Today highways that closely follow E-mail: [email protected] video, stories, and demonstrations the trail are marked with official Website: www.alliedartschatt.org provide an overview of the Civil War markers, and historic sites lie along and the people it touched. the trail. Contact the National Park *Special Note: If you are looking 3941 St. Elmo Avenue Service and the local Chamber of for accommodations in Chattanooga, TN 37550 Commerce for specific information. Chattanooga, get a list of Bed & Phone: 423-821-4954 Long Distance Trails Breakfasts. You may find one in a Group Office, Santa Fe fascinating historic home that Tennessee Riverpark National Park Service provides a great stay. Historical exhibits and other P.O. Box 728 Websites: attractions line this extensive Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 City of Chattanooga greenway. Phone: 505-988-6888 www.chattanooga.gov Amicola Highway E-mail: [email protected] Chattanooga, TN Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ tearsnht.html

HANCOCK COUNTY - SNEEDVILLE

Melungeons Tennessee Wilderness Road Events When Europeans explored and A route through northeast Fall Festival moved into the area around the Tennessee that highlights the Sneedville, TN modern border of Tennessee, natural beauty and history of the Phone: 423-733-2274 Virginia, and North Carolina, they region. Free brochure. found dark-skinned people with Phone: 865-828-5927

European features. They spoke Fax: 865-828-5212 Places broken Elizabethan English, E-mail: [email protected] practiced the Christian faith, and Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/

Elrod Falls generally called themselves Hiking trails wind around a series "Portyghee". The name of three falls, the upper of which "Melungeon" became attached to Visitor Information cascades more than 100 feet. Free them, and they faced persecution admission. and discrimination into the 20th- Hancock County Off Highway 31 century. Many Melungeons still Chamber of Commerce Sneedville, TN reside in Hancock County. (See P.O. Box 426 Phone: 423-733-4524 or 423-733-4341 Lesson 18 for more information.) Sneedville, TN 37869 Contact for information: Scott Collins Phone: 423-733-4524 or 423-733-4451

Phone: 423-733-4524 Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association 109 Fox Avenue P.O. Box 415 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Website: www.netta.com

HARDEMAN COUNTY - BOLIVAR

Fall Events Places Fur, Fin, and Feathers Festival February Ames Plantation Art show, crafts, food, music, and This plantation is an Agricultural family entertainment. National Field Trials Experiment Station of the University Middleton, TN Championship/ of Tennessee conducting agricultural Bird Dog Championship October and historical projects. It is privately Ames Plantation owned and operated by the Trustees Grand Junction, TN Tennessee Forest Festival of the Hobart Ames Foundation. Phone: 731-878-1067 Parade, mule pule, trail ride, 4275 Ellington Road exhibits, and more. P.O. Box 389 April Cultural Resource Field Day Grand Junction, TN 38039 Historic Homes Tour Enjoy a day at Ames Plantation Phone: 731-878-1067 Third weekend learning about the history and E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 731-658-6554 or 731-658-6130 culture of the area. Watch Website: www.amesplantation.org

May numerous demonstrations of Anderson's Fruit Farm

traditional skills. Apples, peaches, and other fruit Historic Hardeman County Month Grand Junction, TN Features buildings throughout the grown for local markets are also Phone: 731-878-1067 processed at the farm. county. E-mail: [email protected] July Highway 64 Website: www.amesplantation.org Cloverport, TN

Lions Club Horse Show Artesian Well Middleton, TN City Park Hornsby, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 47 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Battle of Davis Bridge Site Chickasaw The Pillars A walking trail leads to the bridge Wildlife Management Area Built before 1828, this may have at this Civil War battlesite. A Phone: 731-423-5725 been the first brick home in brochure is available. Bolivar. Open by appointment. Highway 57 South Hardeman County Court House South Washington & Bills Street Pocahontas, TN Built in 1868 to replace a Bolivar, TN courthouse burned during the Phone: 731-658-6554 or Phone: 731-658-6554 or 731-658-6130 Federal occupation of Bolivar 731-658-6130 during the war. An 1873 Polk Cemetery Big Hill Pond State Park Confederate Monument stands on Established around 1845. Contains Big Hill Pond was created in 1953 the lawn. the grave of Colonel Ezekiel Polk, when dirt was taken from a borrow Court Square grandfather of President James K. pit to build a levee for a railroad. Bolivar, TN Polk. Attractions in this park include a Off Market Street/Highway 64 near boardwalk through the scenic Little Court House Episcopal Church. In historic district. Constructed in 1824 as Hardeman Dismal Swamp, a 70-foot tall Bolivar, TN observation tower, and earthworks County's first courthouse. Open by built by Union soldiers during the appointment. Tennessee Pewter Factory Civil War. South Washington & Bills Street This is the only pewter factory in 1435 John Howell Road Bolivar, TN the state. Tours are available by Phone: 731-658-6554 or 731-658-6130 appointment. Pocahontas, TN 38061 Phone: 731-645-7967 133 West Madison Avenue National Bird Dog Museum Grand Junction, TN 38039 Website: Explore art, photography, Phone: 731-764-2064 www.state.tn.us/environment/ memorabilia, and other information parks/bighill/ related to pointing dogs and retriever breeds. This complex also Bolivar Historic Walking Tour Visitor Information includes the Field Trial Hall of Over 100 homes, churches, and other buildings on the National Register of Fame and the Wildlife Heritage Hardeman County Historic Places. Many feature Center, which has an extensive Chamber of Commerce architecture by Fletcher Sloan. collection of literature and 500 West Market Street Bolivar, TN periodicals related to sporting P.O. Box 313 dogs, hunting, conservation, and Phone: 731-658-6554 Bolivar, TN 38008 wildlife. Phone: 731-658-6554 or Chickasaw State Park 505 West Highway 57 731-658-6130 20 Cabin Lane P.O. Box 774 Henderson, TN 38340 Grand Junction, TN 38039 See More on Scenic Highway 64 Phone: 731-989-5141 Phone: 731-764-2058 or Features historic sites, attractions, Website: 731-764-3396 and events in southwestern Tennessee. Free brochure. www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/chicksaw/ Hardin County Tourism 507 Main Street Savannah, TN 38372 Phone: 800-552-3866

HARDIN COUNTY - SAVANNAH

Savannah Art Guild June Events Civil War Art Display Long Hunter Rendezvous April Display of Civil War art created by local artists. Demonstrations by the Davy Living History Demonstration Savannah, TN Crockett Long Hunters, frontier Weekend closest to April 6-7, Phone: 731-925-7529 games, and traders. Anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh Pickwick Landing State Park Civil War re-enactors demonstrate Pickwick Dam, TN military tactics, medical techniques, Phone: 731-926-1082 or 731-689-3129 and camp life. Website:

Shiloh National Military Park www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-689-5696 parks/pickwick/events.htm

July Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 48 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Shiloh's Civil War Civil War Encampment and Pickwick Landing State Park Relics and Museum Fireworks Display In the 1840s, Pickwick Landing Features weapons, uniforms, paper Pickwick Landing State Park became a riverboat stop. The park documents, and other artifacts. Pickwick Dam, TN today was once the living area for 4730 Highway 22 Phone: 731-926-1082 or 731-689-3129 the construction crews who built Shiloh, TN 38376 Website: the TVA dam here. Phone: 731-689-4114 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Park Road parks/pickwick/events.htm Pickwick Dam, TN 38365-0015 Shiloh Indian Mounds Phone: 731-689-3129 National Historic Landmark National Catfish Derby Website: www.state.tn.us/ High on a bluff in Shiloh National This six-week fishing rodeo is held on environment/parks/pickwick/ Military Park, six platform mounds the Tennessee River and in several and over three dozen individual other locations. Fishing, live music, Saltillo Historic District and Ferry horse mounds are encircled by a cultural exhibits, and more. Ride one of Tennessee's last palisade.The Mississippian Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-8094 remaining river ferries to the town Moundbuilder village in the of Saltillo, which contains homes Tennessee Valley flourished around Tennessee River Bluegrass Festival from the 1840s. Two cemeteries July 4th weekend A.D. 1200. The Tennessee River and a church building also date Museum has more information Wayne Jerrolds Riverfront Park from before the Civil War. Savannah, TN about this tribe. Main Street 1055 Pittsburg Landing Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-5595 Saltillo, TN Shiloh, TN 38376 September Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-2364 Phone: 731-689-5696

Savannah Art Guild Gallery Website: www.nps.gov/shil/ Saltillo River Day Cloggers, bands, a parade, and Features paintings by local artists in Shiloh National Military Park other entertainment; a Civil War various mediums. Free admission. Some one hundred thousand Union encampment; and contests. 112 Williams Street and Confederate troops fought here Saltillo, TN Savannah, TN 38372 in April of 1862, and Ulysses S. Phone: 731-687-3697 Phone: 731-925-7529 Grant won a major victory for the

Sunset Symphony Savannah Historic District and Trail Union. This well-preserved Performance by the Memphis Sixteen homes built between 1830 battlefield features 151 monuments, Symphony. and 1930 form the Savannah 217 cannon, and over 450 historic Cherry Mansion Historic District. The Historic tablets. Savannah, TN Trail offers views of the Tennessee 1055 Pittsburg Landing Shiloh, TN 38376 Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-5595 River and wayside exhibits about Native Americans, the Trail of Phone: 731-689-5696 December Tears, the Civil War, and Queenie E-mail: [email protected]

and Alex Haley. Website: www.nps.gov/shil/ Victorian Christmas Celebration Guided tours and carriage rides 507 Main St. Tennessee River Museum through the decorated historic Savannah, TN 38372 A tribute to the Tennessee River district. Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-2364 and its influence on the land, the Savannah, TN E-mail: people, and the heritage of the [email protected] Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-6410 Tennessee Valley. Featured Website: www.tourhardincnty.org/ exhibits educate visitors about

histdist.htm paleontology, archaeology, Places Savannah Theater steamboats, and the Civil War. The Presents local dramatic productions. Shiloh Effigy Pipe, uncovered in Cherry Mansion Savannah, TN 1898 at Shiloh National Military David Robinson built this house Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-2364 Park, is on display. around 1830 as a wedding gift for 507 Main Street his daughter and son-in-law, W.H. Savannah, TN 38372 Cherry. General U.S. Grant used it Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-2364 as his headquarters in the spring of Website: www.tourhardincnty.org/ 1862. The interior of the house is artifact.htm not open to the public, but you may visit the site. A Grant Headquarters Monument is located one block east of the house. 101 Main Street Savannah, TN Phone: 731-925-2364 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 49 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Tennessee River Walker Branch Dragonfly & Hardin County Waterway Museum Damselfly Preserve Convention and Visitor Bureau Showcases the history of the State Natural Area 507 Main Street Tennessee Valley Authority and the Savannah, TN 38372 Tennessee River. Free admission. Wayne Jerrolds Riverfront Park Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-2364 Highway 128 South Features a trail by the Tennessee E-mail: Pickwick Dam, TN 38365 River with markers describing local [email protected] history. The Mississippi Queen and Phone: 731-925-4346 Website: www.tourhardincnty.org Delta Queen riverboats stop here Trail of Tears regularly, and locals entertain the See More on Scenic Highway 64 National Historic Trail crowds with live music and 19th- Features historic sites, attractions, In 1838 and 1839, thousands of century costumes. Call for dates. and events in southwestern Cherokees were forced to leave Savannah, TN Tennessee. Free brochure. their homes in the southeastern Phone: 800-552-3866 or 731-925-2364 Hardin County Tourism states and move to the territory 507 Main Street that would become Oklahoma. White Oak Savannah, TN 38372 Today highways that closely follow Wildlife Management Area Phone: 800-552-3866 Phone: 731-687-3444 the trail are marked with official markers, and historic sites lie along the trail. Contact the National Park Service and the local Chamber of Visitor Information Commerce for specific information. Hardin County Long Distance Trails Chamber of Commerce Group Office, Santa Fe 818 Main Street National Park Service P.O. Box 996 P.O. Box 728 Savannah, TN 38372 Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Phone: 731-925-2363 Phone: 505-988-6888 Fax: 731-925-8069 E-mail: [email protected] Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ tearsnht.html

HAWKINS COUNTY - ROGERSVILLE

Ebbing & Flowing Spring Events Places One of only two springs in the September Archie Campbell Tourism Complex world known to flow regularly at This collection of 27 structures, two hour, forty minute intervals. Riverfront Festival bearing the name of Grand Ole Site includes 19th-century Methodist Surgoinsville, TN Opry star Archie Campbell, traces church and a one-room schoolhouse. Phone: 423-345-2213 Free admission by appointment. the Civil War and railroad history October of the area. Free admission. 840 Ebbing & Flowing Spring Road 1395 South Main Street Rogersville, TN Heritage Days P.O. Box 181 Phone: 423-272-8201 Appalachian music and dance, Bulls Gap, TN 37711-0181 Hale Springs Inn antique cars, quilts, farm equipment, Phone: 423-235-5216 and more. Free admission. The oldest continuously-operated Rogersville, TN Bays Mountain inn in Tennessee, built in 1824. Phone: 423-272-1961 State Natural Area 110 West Main Street Rogersville, TN Crockett Spring Park September Phone: 423-272-5171 Includes a stone-walled cemetery Mount Carmel Fall Festival and tree park. Davy Crockett's Hawkins County Courthouse Free admission. grandparents lived nearby. Built in 1836, this is one of the Mount Carmel, TN 200 Crockett Street oldest original courthouses in Phone: 423-357-3060 Rogersville, TN Tennessee.

Phone: 423-272-1961 100 East Main Street Rogersville, TN Phone: 423-272-7359

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 50 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Laurel Run Park Rogersville Historic District Tennessee Wilderness Road Trails, fishing, and more. Free Founded in the 1780s, Rogersville A route through northeast admission. contains several historic buildings. Tennessee that highlights the Arnold Road Free brochure. natural beauty and history of the Church Hill, TN Main Street region. Free brochure. Phone: 423-357-8110 Rogersville, TN Phone: 865-828-5927

Phone: 423-272-2186 or 423-272-1961 Fax: 865-828-5212 Main Street Studio and Gallery E-mail: [email protected] Demonstrations and studio tours of Rogersville Printing Museum Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/ this pottery shop are available by Tennessee's first newspaper was appointment. Free admission. published in Rogersville in 1791. 116 East Main Street This 1890 depot contains a Visitor Information Rogersville, TN recreated 19th-century print shop

Phone: 423-272-3879 with original and reproduction Rogersville/Hawkins County E-mail: [email protected] newspapers, and other artifacts. Chamber of Commerce The depot stands near the site of a Riverfront Park 415 South Depot Street grain mill and the Rogersville Rogersville, TN 37857-3331 Trails, fishing, and more. Synodical College for Women. Free admission. Phone: 423-272-2186 415 South Depot Street Surgoinsville Creek Road Rogersville, TN Northeast Tennessee Surgoinsville, TN Tourism Association Phone: 423-272-2186 or 423-272-1961 109 Fox Avenue P.O. Box 415 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Website: www.netta.com

HAYWOOD COUNTY - BROWNSVILLE

Felsenthal Lincoln Collection Haywood County Museum Events During his life, Morton Felsenthal Artifacts, documents, photographs, October collected a variety of books, and memorabilia trace the history paintings, statues, speeches, and of Haywood County from Indian Brownsville Blues Fall Festival memorabilia related to Abraham times to the present. Free Blues and gospel music, tours of Lincoln and the Civil War. His admission. Sleepy John Estes' home and collection is now displayed in a College Hill Center gravesite, and more. Free renovated 1851 school building. 127 North Grand Avenue admission. Free admission. Brownsville, TN 38012 Brownsville, TN College Hill Center Phone: 731-772-4883 or 731-772-2193 Phone: 731-772-2193 127 North Grand Avenue Minefield Brownsville, TN 38012 Phone: 731-772-4883 A 75-foot steel sculpture created by Places Billy Tripp of Brownsville. Free Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge admission. The African Roots Museum This refuge provides habitat for 1 Minefield Alley Various African artifacts from migrating and wintering waterfowl Brownsville, TN many African countries. as well as other animals. Free Phone: 731-772-2193 12704 Highway 19E admission. Nutbush, TN 4172 Highway 76 South Sleepy John Estes House Blues legend John Adam Estes Phone: 731-772-6902 Brownsville, TN 38012-8332 Phone: 731-772-0501 lived here. Photographs and audio Brownsville Walking Tour tapes depict his life. Free Website: southeast.fws.gov/hatchie/ Stroll past and through historic admission. houses and other buildings in 121 Sunnyhill Cove Brownsville. Brownsville, TN 121 West Main Street Phone: 731-772-2193 Brownsville, TN 38012 Phone: 731-772-2193

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 51 © 2003 The Notgrass Company West Tennessee Wild Onion Ridge Visitor Information Delta Heritage Center Music Heritage Park Houses a cotton museum, the West Features the Nutbush/Tina Turner Brownsville-Haywood County Tennessee Music Museum, the Heritage Resource Center with Chamber of Commerce Scenic Hatchie River museum, and exhibits about Nutbush history and 121 West Main Street information about West Tennessee. culture, and artists from the area, Brownsville, TN 38012 Free admission. including Tina Turner, Sleepy John Phone: 731-772-2193 121 Sunnyhill Cove Estes, Clay Evans, Alex Harvey, E-mail: [email protected] Brownsville, TN and others. Open by appointment. Website: Phone: 731-779-9000 382 Willette Beard Road www.pchnet.com/chamber/ Nutbush, TN Phone: 731-772-4265 or 731-772-8157 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nutbush.com

HENDERSON COUNTY - LEXINGTON

Battle of Parker's Crossroads Labor Day Weekend Events Re-enactment and Living Historical, natural, and recreational Trail Rides History Demonstration activities. Natchez Trace State Park Second weekend (even years) Natchez Trace State Park Wildersville, TN Parker's Crossroads, TN Wildersville, TN Phone: 731-968-3742 Phone: 800-967-2576 or 731-968-6026 Phone: 731-968-3742 Website: Website: August www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/natchez/events.htm Natchez Days parks/natchez/events.htm Historical activities related to April October Native American skills, the Civil West Tennessee Fiddlers' Contest War, and the Civilian Conservation Possum Festival Sardis, TN Corps in the 1930s. City Park Natchez Trace State Park Parker's Crossroads, TN May Wildersville, TN

Family Fun Days Phone: 731-968-3742 Memorial Day weekend Website: Places Historical, natural, and recreational www.state.tn.us/environment/ activities. parks/natchez/events.htm Battle of Parker's Crossroads

Natchez Trace State Park Confederate forces under General National Championship Rodeo Nathan Bedford Forrest clashed Wildersville, TN Guy B. Amis Park Phone: 731-968-3742 here on December 31, 1862, with Lexington, TN Union troops under Colonels Cyrus Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ Parker's Crossroads Dunham and John Fuller. Free brochure. parks/natchez/events.htm Racking Horse Show City Park Parker's Crossroads, TN June Parker's Crossroads, TN Phone: 731-968-2126 or 731-967-3508

E-mail: [email protected] Gospel Music Festival Steer Wrestling Competition Website: www.bushwacking.com/ Traditional and contemporary Tim McPeake Arena selfguided_tour.htm gospel music from regional artists. Lexington, TN Natchez Trace State Park Beech River Watershed Wildersville, TN September Development Authority Phone: 731-968-3742 Oversees several lakes which Antique Tractor Show Website: provide outdoor recreation, water Sardis City Park www.state.tn.us/environment/ supply, and flood protection. Sardis, TN parks/natchez/events.htm P.O. Box 477 Lexington, TN 38351 Phone: 731-968-6191

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 52 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cotton Patch Restaurant Mills Darden Marker and Gravesite Natchez Trace Features authentic and reproduced Mills Darden was one of the largest Wildlife Management Area Civil War memorabilia, as well as known people in the world. When he Phone: 731-986-5351 or 731-423-5725

Confederate bushwacking/camp died in 1857, he was over seven feet demonstrations. tall and weighed over 1,000 pounds. Highway 22 Phone: 731-968-2126 Visitor Information

Parker's Crossroads, TN Phone: 731-968-5533 Natchez Trace State Park Henderson County Website: www.bushwacking.com/ North America's third largest pecan Chamber of Commerce tree stands in the park. Legend says CottonPatch.htm 149 Eastern Shores Drive that the tree grew from a pecan Lexington, TN 38351 Hinson Springs given to a local settler by one of Phone: 731-968-2126 Attracted visitors from around the Andrew Jackson's men as they E-mail: [email protected] country in the early 1900s to bathe returned from the Battle of New Website: www.netease.net/hccc in its waters. Orleans.

24845 Natchez Trace Road Wildersville, TN 38388-8329 Phone: 731-968-3742 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/natchez/

HENRY COUNTY - PARIS

September December Events Eiffel Tower Day and Christmas Concert April Balloon Festival Paris, TN World's Biggest Fish Fry This festival takes place around Phone: 731-642-3955

Last full week the Eiffel Tower and features live Catfish races, rodeos, a carnival entertainment, tethered balloon midway, a grand parade, and more. rides and races, "Arts in the Park", Places Paris, TN Classic Cars, and more. Phone: 731-642-3431 Paris, TN Big Sandy Phone: 731-642-3431 Wildlife Management Area May Phone: 731-423-5725 Pioneer Days Puryear Day Third Saturday Eiffel Tower Third Saturday Parades, games, country music, A 65-foot reproduction of the Parade, music, square dancing, arts square dancing, and shoot-out. Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Free and crafts, barbecue. Henry, TN admission. Puryear, TN Phone: 731-243-3833 Memorial Park Phone: 731-642-5362 Volunteer Drive Octoberfest Paris, TN Summer First Saturday Phone: 731-642-1445 Musical Programs at Games, booths, and authentic Paris Landing State Park German music and food. Grove Tower Paris Landing State Park Paris, TN Located on the highest point in Buchanan, TN Contact: Andy Fazzini West Tennessee, this tower Phone: 731-644-7359 Phone: 731-644-9442 originally housed the county high

Website: school. November Grove Boulevard www.state.tn.us/environment/ Paris, TN Artist Showcase parks/paris/events.htm Display of local artistic talent. Henry County Courthouse Fall First American Bank This courthouse has been in use Storytelling Festival Paris, TN since 1896. Historical photographs Ogbum Park Phone: 731-642-3955 and paintings hang inside.

Paris, TN Washington Street Phone: 731-642-3855 Paris, TN

Phone: 731-642-5212

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 53 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Kentucky Lake 810 East Wood Street, Suite B West Sandy Year-round water recreation. P.O. Box 849 Wildlife Management Area Phone: 731-642-3431 Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 731-423-5725 Phone: 731-642-2091 Market Street Antique Mall Fax: 731-644-3351 Visitor Information Includes Checkerboard Cafe and a E-mail: [email protected] model trains display. Free Website: Paris/Henry County admission. southeast.fws.gov/tennessee/ Chamber of Commerce 414 North Market Street 2508 East Wood Street Paris, TN Trail of Tears P.O. Box 8 Phone: 731-642-6996 National Historic Trail Paris, TN 38242-0008 In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Phone: 800-345-1103 or 731-642- Paris-Henry County Heritage Cherokees were forced to leave 3431 Center their homes in the southeastern Fax: 731-642-3454 A 1916 Italian-style mansion states and move to the territory E-mail: [email protected] contains a computerized database of that would become Oklahoma. Website: local and regional history, special Today highways that closely www.paris.tn.org/chamber.htm historical exhibits, and a video and follow the trail are marked with audio tape library. Free admission. official markers, and historic sites The Tennessee River 614 North Poplar Street lie along the trail. Runs Through It Paris, TN 38242 Contact the National Park Service Highlights the scenic, cultural, Phone: 731-642-1030 and the local Chamber of Commerce historic, and recreational E-mail: [email protected] for specific information. attractions and events around the Paris Landing State Park Long Distance Trails Tennessee River. Free brochure. Paris Landing was a steamboat Group Office, Santa Fe Paris-Henry County Chamber of and freight landing dating back to National Park Service Commerce the mid 1800s. P.O. Box 728 2508 East Wood Street 16055 Highway 79 North Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Paris, TN 38242 Buchanan, TN 38222-4109 Phone: 505-988-6888 Phone: 800-345-1103 Phone: 731-644-7359 E-mail: [email protected] Website: Website: Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Paris-Henry County www.state.tn.us/environment/ tearsnht.html www.paris.tn.org parks/paris/ Walking Tour Tennessee National Wildlife An audio-taped guide will lead you Refuge on a walking tour of West This refuge provides a haven for Tennessee's oldest incorporated winter waterfowl and migrating community. Cassette players, shorebirds. Visitors can observe the tapes, and maps are available at no wildlife by land or bring their boats. charge at the Chamber of Fishing and hunting are allowed in Commerce, the W.G. Rhea season. Free admission. Library, and the Paris-Henry County Heritage Center. Paris, TN Phone: 731-642-3431

HICKMAN COUNTY - CENTERVILLE

May August Events Miracle Day Middle Tennessee Riding Shows Second Saturday Gem & Mineral Show First Saturday of each month Live entertainment, games, and more. Third weekend Riding Arena Centerville, TN Features gems, minerals, cut and Haley's Creek Road Phone: 931-670-9926 polished stones, cutting equipment, jewelry, and more. Free admission. East Hickman Indian Pow-Wow Riverbend Family Fourth weekend Entertainment Center Phone: 931-670-5465 Centerville, TN Phone: 931-729-5437 Fall Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 54 © 2003 The Notgrass Company MTSU Wildlife Management Area Hickman County Marching Classic Places Phone: 615-781-6622 Statewide high school band Centerville Public Square competition. Natchez Trace Parkway Turn-of-the-century public square. Centerville, TN In the late 18th and early 19th Includes Dycus Hardware which centuries, settlers in the Ohio River features historical county Little Lot Homecoming Valley were floating their produce photographs. Little Lot, TN down the Mississippi River to New Centerville, TN Orleans. They sold their flatboats September Phone: 931-729-5774

for lumber, and the path now Duck River Music & Arts Festival Gordon House known as the Natchez Trace First Saturday after Labor Day Built around 1818 by Captain John provided a good route back home. Live entertainment, games, and more. Gordon, the first Postmaster of The introduction of steamboats Centerville, TN Nashville and owner of a trading encouraged return travel by river, Phone: 931-729-5774 post and ferry on the Duck River. and the Trace lost much of its

Coble Homecoming Off the Natchez Trace traffic. Historic sites, trails, and Last Saturday Phone: 931-729-5774 picnic areas are located along the Natchez Trace, which passes Live music, food, and more. Grinder's Switch Coble, TN through Hickman County. Sarah Ophelia Colley grew up in 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway Phone: 931-729-4378 Centerville to become Grand Ole Tupelo, MS 38804 Opry star Minnie Pearl. An old October Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 railroad depot stands by the Website: www.nps.gov/natr/ Auto Show railroad stop that she made famous. First Saturday Grinder's Switch Road Tarkington's General Store Classic, collector, and street rod Centerville, TN Opened in 1927. cars. Free admission. Phone: 931-729-5774 6688 Hassell Creek Road Centerville, TN Lyles, TN Hickman County Public Library Phone: 931-729-4576 Phone: 931-729-2767 Features art exhibits and displays,

December and genealogical information. 120 West Swan Street Visitor Information Christmas Tour of Homes Centerville, TN Phone: 931-729-2288 Hickman County Phone: 931-729-5130 Chamber of Commerce Jackson Falls P.O. Box 126

This large spring and waterfalls Centerville, TN 37033 provided a rest stop on the Natchez Phone: 931-729-5774 Trace. Andrew Jackson and his E-mail: [email protected] troops camped here, giving the falls their name. Website: Shady Grove, TN Hickman County, Tennessee www.hickmanco.com Phone: 931-729-5774

HOUSTON COUNTY - ERIN

Ferry at Danville Events Places One of the few ferry boats left in March Betsy Ligon Park & Walking Trail Tennessee. Connects Benton and Contains a railroad depot pavilion, Houston Counties across the Irish Celebration an actual boxcar and caboose, a Tennessee River. Third week turn-around, and working railroad Highway 147 Forty percent of this county's 7,000 crossing lights. Also features a lime Phone: 931-289-3633 residents claim Irish ancestry, and kiln from the 1800s and a two-mile they celebrate with food and fun in walking trail. March. Free admission. Front Street Phone: 931-289-5100 Erin, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-289-4108 E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 55 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Trail of Tears Visitor Information National Historic Trail In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Houston County Area Cherokees were forced to leave Chamber of Commerce their homes in the southeastern 48 Strawberry Street states and move to the territory P.O. Box 603 that would become Oklahoma. Erin, TN 37061 Today highways that closely follow Phone: 931-289-5100 or 931-289-4108 the trail are marked with official markers, and historic sites lie along The Tennessee River the trail. Contact the National Park Runs Through It Service and the local Chamber of Highlights the scenic, cultural, Commerce for specific information. historic, and recreational Long Distance Trails attractions and events around the Group Office, Santa Fe Tennessee River. Free brochure. National Park Service Paris-Henry County P.O. Box 728 Chamber of Commerce Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 2508 East Wood Street Phone: 505-988-6888 Paris, TN 38242 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 800-345-1103 Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ tearsnht.html

HUMPHREYS COUNTY - WAVERLY

Humphreys County Museum and Events Places Civil War Fort May Blue Creek Nature Center A restored mansion houses a Trails, a bull frog pond, and pine collection of Indian artifacts and Civil War Living History Camp & tree plantation. military memorabilia. The Civil War Grand Ball Waverly, TN Fort behind the mansion was Confederate infantry, cavalry, Phone: 931-296-3442 originally built to protect the artillery, and medical Nashville and Northwestern demonstrations, plus a grand ball. Bucksnort Trail Ride Railroad supply route. Free Loretta Lynn's Ranch Waverly, TN admission. Hurricane Mills, TN Phone: 931-296-3442 201 Fort Hill Drive Phone: 931-296-7700 or 770-926-1229 Waverly, TN 37185 E-mail: [email protected] Buffalo River Canoe Trips Phone: 931-296-1099

Beginning and advanced canoeists July Johnsonville State Historic Park can enjoy navigating this river. St. Patrick Irish Picnic Phone: 931-296-4865 This museum and the surrounding and Homecoming grounds commemorate the 1864 Civil War Railroad Battle of Johnsonville, the only Live music and dancing, food, Military sites lie along the railroad games, and more. Free admission. recorded battle in which cavalry that passes through Cheatham, troops defeated a naval force. McEwen, TN Dickson, and Humphreys Counties, Phone: 931-582-3493 or 931-582-3986 Traces of Union fortifications, generally following the course of redoubts, and rifle pits still exist. Fax: 931-582-6386 Hwy 70. Many sites are on private E-mail: [email protected] Interpretive tours are available, and property, so you must get permission a museum relates area history. to visit them. Free brochure. Route 1 Box 374 Phone: 931-296-4865 New Johnsonville, TN 37134

Enochs Grist Mill Phone: 931-535-2789 This mill continues to produce corn Fax: 931-535-3776 meal, and a museum features Website: historical memorabilia. www.state.tn.us/environment/ 84 Enochs Road parks/johnson/

McEwen, TN Phone: 931-582-3385

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 56 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Loretta Lynn's Ranch 810 East Wood Street, Suite B World O' Tools Museum The recreated Butcher Holler P.O. Box 849 2431 Highway 13 South House and a simulated coal mine Paris, TN 38242 Waverly, TN 37185 provide a look at life in Kentucky Phone: 731-642-2091 Phone: 931-296-3218 during Loretta Lynn's childhood. Fax: 731-644-3351 The ranch also has a recreated E-mail: [email protected] western town, with authentic tools Website: Visitor Information and machinery. The Hurricane southeast.fws.gov/tennessee/ Creek Mill houses the Loretta Humphreys County Area Lynn Museum. Contact the ranch Trail of Tears Chamber of Commerce about special events and concerts. National Historic Trail 124 East Main Street 1344 Hurricane Mills Road In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Waverly, TN 37185 Hurricane Mills, TN 37078 Cherokees were forced to leave Phone: 931-296-4865 Phone: 931-296-7700 their homes in the southeastern E-mail: [email protected] states and move to the territory E-mail: [email protected] Website: that would become Oklahoma. www.dickson.net/hcchamber/ Nolan House Bed & Breakfast Today highways that closely follow This Victorian house was built in the trail are marked with official The Tennessee River 1870 by Civil War soldier James markers, and historic sites lie along Runs Through It Nolan. Features a hiking trail and the trail. Contact the National Park Highlights the scenic, cultural, family cemetery. Service and the local Chamber of historic, and recreational 375 Highway 13 North Commerce for specific information. attractions and events around the Waverly, TN Long Distance Trails Tennessee River. Free brochure. Phone: 931-296-2511 Group Office, Santa Fe Paris-Henry County National Park Service Chamber of Commerce Tennessee Nat’l Wildlife Refuge P.O. Box 728 2508 East Wood Street This refuge provides a haven for Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Paris, TN 38242 winter waterfowl and migrating Phone: 505-988-6888 Phone: 800-345-1103 shorebirds. Visitors can observe the E-mail: [email protected] wildlife by land or bring their Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ boats. Fishing and hunting are tearsnht.html allowed in season. Free admission.

JACKSON COUNTY - GAINESBORO

Freestone Pottery Events Places Hand-crafted pottery featuring May Cordell Hull Refuge Biblical messages. Demonstrations Wildlife Management Area available. Free admission. Poke Sallet Festival Phone: 931-484-9571 707 North Fork Lane Second weekend Whitleyville, TN Music, games, contests, and other Cordell Hull Phone: 931-621-3456 activities. Wildlife Management Area E-mail: [email protected] Town Square Phone: 931-484-9571 Gainesboro, TN Granville Museum Fort Blount and Williamsburg Site Phone: 931-268-3447 Artifacts and displays tell the history Around 1791, Territorial Governor of Granville, a riverboat town settled Fall William Blount ordered the in 1799. Free admission. construction of a fort here. Cruzin' the Cumberland Clover Street Williamsburg grew up near the fort Granville, TN The Music City Queen Riverboat as the first county seat. See also provides dinner and sightseeing. Phone: 931-268-4411 Jackson County Museum. Phone: 931-268-0971 Jackson County Museum Smith Bend Road December Gainesboro, TN Local history exhibits, including a Phone: 931-268-0971 replica of Fort Blount and Cumberland Heritage Christmas Williamsburg, and other rotating Narrated horse and buggy rides, exhibits. music, and more. 105 Montpelier Gainesboro, TN Gainesboro, TN Phone: 931-268-0971 Phone: 931-268-0971

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 57 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Meteorite Crater Washmorgan Hollow Upper Cumberland A historic marker marks the site of State Natural Area Tourism Association a meteorite crater. The area has P.O. Box 2411 grown up with vegetation and the Cookeville, TN 38502 crater site is not visible to the Visitor Information Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 untrained eye. Take I-40 to Highway 56; go north Gainesboro-Jackson County and take a left on Flynn’s Creek Chamber of Commerce Road. Marker is on the left a few 101 East Hull Avenue miles down Flynn’s Creek Road. P.O. Box 827 Gainesboro, TN 38562 Phone: 931-268-0971

JEFFERSON COUNTY - DANDRIDGE

Old Time Saturday Henderson Island Refuge WMA Events Entertainment, food, arts and crafts. Phone: 423-587-7037 May Jefferson City, TN Houston's Mineral Water Phone: 865-475-7367 Memorial Day Jamboree Purchase a gallon of mineral water New Market, TN Story-Telling Festival from this spring for 25 cents. Phone: 865-475-4064 Glenmore Mansion 1005 West Old Andrew Johnson Hwy Jefferson City, TN New Market, TN Plowin' Day and Spring Festival Phone: 865-475-5014 or 865-475-4414 Seed swapping demonstration, Jefferson County Museum cornhusk dolls, and more. 1845 courthouse contains artifacts Deep Springs Settlement Places from early Tennessee history, the Civil War, and the World Wars, 1541 Deep Springs Road Biblical Gardens including the Marriage Bond of Dandridge, TN 37725 Behind Strawberry Plains Presbyterian Davy Crockett and Polly Finley. Phone: 865-397-1460 Church is a garden containing Free admission. statues of Biblical figures and Strawberry Festival Jefferson County Courthouse scripture signs. Strawberry Plains, TN 202 West Main Street 3168 West Old Andrew Johnson Hwy Phone: 865-523-4528 Dandridge, TN Strawberry Plains, TN June Phone: 865-397-4904

Dandridge McSpaddon House Chestnut Hill Horse Show This community was founded in Samuel McSpaddon, a powdermaker Grounds of former Chestnut Hill 1793 and named for Martha and Revolutionary War veteran, Elementary School Dandridge Washington. Union and built this house in 1804. He Chestnut Hill, TN Confederate soldiers skirmished manufactured gun power that Phone: 865-509-7551 here on December 24, 1863. A Andrew Jackson's troops used at walking tour brochure is available. September Battle of New Orleans. U.S. Highways 25W and 70 Highway 66 "Agri-Culture" Phone: 865-397-9642 Between Dandridge and Sevierville September and October Pumpkins, hay rides, crafts, and Frances Hodgson Burnett Cabin Site harvest decorations. Visitor Information An historical marker identifies the Old Mill Pumpkin Patch area where the cabin stood into Phone: 865-397-9841 Jefferson Co. Chamber of which Frances Eliza Hodgson moved Commerce Molasses Festival in 1865. She married Swan Burnett 532 Patriot Drive Deep Springs Settlement in 1873 and started writing. Jefferson City, TN 37760-3216 1541 Deep Springs Road U.S. Highway 11E Phone: 865-397-9642 Dandridge, TN 37725 New Market, TN Fax: 865-397-0164

Phone: 865-397-1460 [email protected] Glenmore Mansion October www.jefferson-tn-chamber.org Built around 1868 and furnished with Victorian antiques. "Agri-Culture" 1280 North Chucky Pike (see September) Jefferson City, TN 37760

Phone: 865-475-5014 or 865-475-4414

December Tennessee Wilderness Road Events A route through northeast Tour of Homes Summer Tennessee that highlights the Phone: 423-727-9111 or 423-727-5800 natural beauty and history of the Shady Valley Bluegrass Festival region. Free brochure. Phone: 423-739-2337 Phone: 865-828-5927 E-mail: [email protected] Places Fax: 865-828-5212

E-mail: [email protected] June Appalachian Trail Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/ Trade Days Festival Appalachian Trail Conference Apple butter making, crafts, 799 Washington Street Wilderness Ranch, Inc. quilting, live music, and more in P.O. Box 807 Scenic trail rides, covered wagon one of the oldest European Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 rides, and hay and picnic rides. settlements in Tennessee. Phone: 304-535-6331 168 Wilderness Trail Fax: 304-535-2667 Phone: 423-727-5800 P.O. Box 300 Website: www.atconf.org Butler, TN 37640

August Phone: 800-381-6751 or 423-768-3030 Backbone Rock Bluegrass Down on the Farm Near the Tennessee-Virginia border.

Bluegrass and gospel music. Phone: 423-727-5800 Phone: 423-739-2337 Visitor Information Butler Museum E-mail: [email protected] Memorabilia from the Old Town of Johnson County Welcome Mountain Heritage Days & Butler, covered by the waters of Center Rodeo Festival Watauga Lake in 1948. Free 716 South Shady Street Cowgirls and cowboys compete for admission. Mountain City, TN 37683 points in the Mid-Atlantic Rodeo "Babe" Curtis Park Phone: 423-727-5800 Association. Curtis Lane E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-727-1700 Butler, TN Website: pages.preferred.com/

Phone: 423-768-2432 ~jcwc/index.htm Old Butler Days Celebrate the town under the lake Callalantee Northeast Tennessee with music, games, exhibits, and Guided horse rides. Bring your Tourism Association food. own horse. 109 Fox Avenue Butler, TN 675 D. Curd Road P.O. Box 415 Phone: 423-768-2432 P.O. Box 48 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Mountain City, TN 37683 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Old Time Fiddler's Convention Phone: 423-727-4401 Website: www.netta.com Old Mill Music Park Laurel Bloomery, TN Doe Mountain Phone: 423-727-9595 Wildlife Management Area

Phone: 423-587-7037 September Johnson County Museum Bluegrass Rally in the Valley 716 South Shady Street Shady Valley, TN Mountain City, TN 37683 Phone: 423-739-2337 Phone: 423-727-5800 E-mail: [email protected]

E-mail: [email protected] October Old Time Music Cranberry Festival Friday nights Take a look at the natural, non- Davidson's Store in Shingletown commercial cranberry bogs and and the Crackers Neck Store in enjoy the parade, crafts, food, quilt Cracker's Neck both host weekly show, and other displays. music sessions.

Phone: 423-739-2400 or 423-727-5800

May Rare Breed Livestock, Miniature, Events and Pet Expo American Indian Celebration and January Third weekend Pow Wow Exhibitions of agricultural and Native American tribes from across Martin Luther King, Jr. Day companion animals from large the United States come together for Celebration hoofstock to tiny pets, plus dance competitions, craft Features a parade, memorial educational and entertaining demonstrations, storytelling, and service, Black Inventors Exhibit, seminars. other activities. and musical performances. Knoxville Fairgrounds World's Fair Park Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN Phone: 800-727-8045 Phone: 865-475-3777 Phone: 865-475-6844 or 865-579-1384 April E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.public.usit.net/ddtarr Dogwood Arts Festival Greek Festival Music, art, sports, gardens, and more. Cultural exhibits, children dancing June Knoxville, TN in traditional costumes, church Hot Summer Nights Concert Phone: 800-364-9663 or 865-637-4561 tours, Greek foods and pastries. Series Smoky Mountain St. George Greek Orthodox Church (see May) Quilt Show & Competition 4070 Kingston Pike Traditional and contemporary Knoxville, TN Kuumba Festival quilted items from Tennessee and Phone: 865-522-5043 Cultural fine arts show featuring other states and countries. Free African and African-American art, admission. Hot Summer Nights Concert Series dance, theater, music, storytelling, Knoxville, TN May through September and food. Phone: 865-577-0892 World's Fair Park Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-525-0961 or 865-637-5049 Spring Phone: 865-523-2665 Statehood Day Celebration Jubilee International Festival First weekend A celebration of the different Tennessee became the 16th United cultural traditions that have State in 1796 at this site. Celebrate influence this region. Food, dance, with food, music, and period music, crafts, and other activities. reenactments. World's Fair Park Blount Mansion Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-522-5851 Phone: 865-525-2375

July

Hot Summer Nights Concert Series (see May)

August

Artfest August through October Summer Shades, Mayor's Art Auction, Artist's Extravaganza, and more. Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-523-7543

Hot Summer Nights Concert Series (see May)

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 60 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Tennessee State November Beck Cultural Exchange Center Racking Horse Show Preserves and presents the Largest racking horse show in the Foothills Craft Guild Show and Sale achievements of African-Americans industry. Over 500 horses compete Demonstrations and exhibits of in Knoxville. Includes books, for prizes. traditional and contemporary crafts. photographs, recordings, Knoxville, TN Knoxville Convention/Exhibition biographies, and art. Free Center Phone: 865-971-5236 admission. Knoxville, TN 1927 Dandridge Avenue September Tellabration Knoxville, TN 37915 Artfest Weekend before Thanksgiving Phone: 865-524-8461 (see August) Participants around the world E-mail: [email protected]

gather in their communities for a Bethel Civil War Cemetery Boomsday time of storytelling. Labor Day Sixteen hundred Confederate Knoxville, TN soldiers are buried in this cemetery, Live entertainment, activities, and a Phone: 865-521-7211 or 865-717-3914 large fireworks display. which was established in 1861. E-mail: [email protected] Open by appointment only. Knoxville, TN or [email protected] Phone: 865-693-1020 1711 Dandridge Avenue Website: www.tellabration.org Knoxville, TN Governor John Sevier Days December Phone: 865-522-8661 Colonial Festival Living history festival and trade fair. Downtown Celebration of Lights Bijou Theatre Marble Springs State Historic Family entertainment, free horse- Historic downtown landmark that Farmstead drawn wagon rides, and more. hosts music, dance, theater and Knoxville, TN Knoxville, TN other special events. Phone: 865-573-5508 Phone: 865-215-4248 803 South Gay Street Knoxville, TN Hot Summer Nights Concert Nativity Pageant Phone: 865-522-0832 Series Community presentation of the (see May) story of Christ's birth. Blount Mansion Civic Coliseum Governor William Blount lived in Smoky Mountain Jam Knoxville, TN this home, built in stages between A variety of music on multiple stages. 1792 and 1830. Tennessee became

World's Fair Park the 16th United State here in 1796. Knoxville, TN Places 200 West Hill Avenue Phone: 865-523-2665 P.O. Box 1703

Tennessee Valley Fair Armstrong-Lockett House Knoxville, TN 37901 Entertainment, agricultural shows, (Crescent Bend) and W. P. Toms Phone: 865-525-2375 Memorial Gardens exhibits, activities, contests, and The Candy Factory and Built in 1834, this house now more. Victorian District contains a collection of 18th Chilhowee Park A working chocolate factory and century English and American Knoxville, TN galleries and studios with local, furniture and art. It also features Phone: 865-637-5840 regional, and national artwork. extensive Italian gardens. Free admission. October 2728 Kingston Pike 1060 World's Fair Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37919 Artfest Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-637-3163 (see August) Phone: 865-522-2049 Baker-Peters House Head of the Tennessee Regatta Carousel and Clarence Brown Built in 1840 and originally owned Sequoyah Park Theatres by Dr. Harvey Baker, a strong Knoxville, TN Musicals, comedies, drama, and Confederate sympathizer. He was Phone: 865-212-5299 dance. killed in 1863 during a skirmish Website: www.korrnet.org/kra/ University of Tennessee with Union soldiers at the house. It Home/Head/head.html 1714 Andy Holt Boulevard is now a dentist's office and Phone: 865-974-5161 restaurant.

9000 Kingston Pike Chilhowee Park Knoxville, TN Beaman and Magnolia Avenue Phone: 865-470-2286 Knoxville, TN

Phone: 865-637-5840

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 61 © 2003 The Notgrass Company City Ballet of Knoxville Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture Greater Warner Tabernacle Performances throughout the year, Features work by avant-garde artists AME Zion Church including an annual presentation of and architects. Free admission. Organized in 1845, and perhaps used as the "Nutcracker". University of Tennessee a stop on the Underground Railroad. P.O. Box 1664 1715 Volunteer Boulevard Martin Luther King Avenue Knoxville, TN 37901 Knoxville, TN 37996-2410 Phone: 865-524-8040

Phone: 865-544-0495 Phone: 865-974-3200 E-mail: [email protected] Haley Heritage Square Confederate Memorial Hall Website: web.utk.edu/~spangler/ Features a playground and a (Bleak House) larger-than-life bronze statue of Confederate General James Farragut Folklife Museum novelist Alex Haley, who lived in Longstreet used this 1858 house as Artifacts and personal belongings Knoxville. Free admission. his headquarters during the siege of of David Glasgow Farragut, first 1600 Dandridge Avenue Knoxville in 1863. Period furniture, Admiral of the U.S. Navy and a Knoxville, TN war relics, and Southern literature Civil War participant, plus other Phone: 800-727-8045 or 865-523-7263 are displayed. regional artifacts. Free admission. 3148 Kingston Pike Farragut Town Hall House Mountain State Park Knoxville, TN 37919 11408 Municipal Center Drive Hike around and up House Phone: 865-522-2371 P.O. Box 22190 Mountain, the highest point in Knox County at 2,100 feet. E-mail: [email protected] Farragut, TN 37933-0190 P.O. Box 109 Phone: 865-966-7057 Cradle of Country Music Corryton, TN 37721 Walking Tour Forks of the River Phone: 865-933-6851 A self-guided tour of several sites in Wildlife Management Area Website: downtown Knoxville. Free brochure. Phone: 423-587-7037 www.state.tn.us/environment/

600 Market Street parks/house/ Knoxville, TN Fort Loudon Wildlife Management Area Ijams Nature Center Phone: 800-727-8045 or 423-544-5732 Phone: 423-587-7037 Trails, meadows, wildflowers, and East Tennessee Discovery bluffs, plus lectures and workshops. Center Frank H. McClung Museum 2915 Island Home Avenue Natural history, world culture, and Collections related to archaeology, P.O. Box 2601 student art, plus a planetarium and geology, Native Americans, ancient Knoxville, TN 37901 hands-on activities. Egypt, decorative arts, medicine, Phone: 865-577-4717 516 North Beaman Street and local and natural history. Free E-mail: [email protected] admission. P.O. Box 6204 Website: www.ijams.org Knoxville, TN 37914 University of Tennessee 1327 Circle Park Drive James White Fort Phone: 865-594-1494 Knoxville, TN 37996-3200 Built in 1786 by Knoxville's founder, East Tennessee Historical Phone: 865-974-2144 General James White. Includes Society Museum E-mail: [email protected] White's original house and restored Exhibits, workshops, and programs Website: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu stockade, plus a loom house, preserve and interpret 200 years of smokehouse, and blacksmith shop. Tennessee Valley history. Free Gateway Regional Visitor Center 205 East Hill Avenue admission. Exhibits feature the natural, cultural, Knoxville, TN 37915 historical, and scientific attractions of 600 Market Street Phone: 865-525-6514 or 865-938-8148 P.O. Box 1629 Knoxville and the Southern Knoxville, TN 37901-1629 Highlands. Free admission. Phone: 865-215-8824 or 865-544-5732 900 Volunteer Landing E-mail: Knoxville, TN [email protected] Phone: 800-727-8045 or 865-971-4440 Website: E-mail: [email protected] www.korrnet.org/gateway/ www.east-tennessee-history.org

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 62 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Joseph B. Wolffe Gallery Mabry-Hazen House Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sculpture gallery featuring the Both Union and Confederate troops Established in 1860, this church works of R. Tait McKenzie (1867- occupied this 1858 house while the published a newspaper from 1945- 1938). Free admission. Mabry family lived upstairs. It is 1954 calling for civil rights and University of Tennessee Campus now a museum of family life during equality for African-Americans. 1914 Andy Holt Boulevard and after the war. 2714 Brooks Road Knoxville, TN 37996 1711 Dandridge Avenue Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-974-0967 P.O. Box 2742 Phone: 865-522-2715 Knoxville, TN 37901-2742 Knoxville Academy of Medicine Museum of East Tennessee Phone: 865-522-8661 Museum History A replica of an old doctor's office Marble Springs 500 West Church Avenue contains collections of medical State Historic Farmstead Knoxville, TN 37902 instruments, furniture, pictures, Includes the original 1796 home, Phone: 865-544-4262 and medical books dating back to loom house, smokehouse, 1798. Open by appointment. Free cantilevered barn, and springhouse of Old City admission. Tennessee's first governor, John Historic district featuring shops, 422 Cumberland Avenue Sevier. Furnished with Sevier family restaurants, and entertainment. Knoxville, TN 37902 artifacts and other period Free admission. Jackson Avenue and Central Street Phone: 865-524-4676 furnishings. 1220 John Sevier Highway West Knoxville, TN Knoxville Museum of Art P.O. Box 9402 Phone: 865-523-5858 Permanent and traveling exhibits, Knoxville, TN 37940 Website: www.theoldcity.com plus lectures, workshops, and music Phone: 865-573-5508 performances. 1050 World's Fair Park Drive Mt. Olive Baptist Church Knoxville, TN 37916 Established 1869. Phone: 865-525-6101 1601 Dandridge Avenue E-mail: [email protected] Knoxville, TN Website: www.knoxart.org Phone: 865-524-1601

Knoxville Opera Company 612 East Depot Avenue Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-524-0795 Website: www.knoxvilleopera.com

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra Perform nearly 300 concerts per year. 406 Union Avenue, Suite 100 Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-523-1178

Knoxville Zoological Gardens Knoxville Zoo Drive P.O. Box 6040 Knoxville, TN 37914 Phone: 865-637-5331 Fax: 865-637-1943 Website: www.knoxville-zoo.org

Laurel House Theatre and Jubilee Center Dedicated to preserving Southern Appalachian culture. Concerts, dance, poetry, reading, and festivals. 16th and Laurel Avenue Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-522-5851

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 63 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Old Gray Cemetery University of Tennessee Visitor Information This museum of the city's past has Gallery Concourse served as a park since 1850. Two permanent exhibitions and Knox County Tourist Commission 543 North Broadway various other displays. Free 601 West Summit Hill Drive Knoxville, TN Admission. Suite 200B Phone: 865-522-1424 University Center, UT Campus Knoxville, TN 37902 E-mail: [email protected] Knoxville, TN Phone: 800-727-8045 or 865-523-7263

Phone: 865-974-5455 Ramsey House (Swan Pond) Knoxville Convention and Built around 1797, this was UT Music Hall and Opera Theatre Visitors Bureau perhaps the first stone house in the Music concerts, recitals, and 810 Clinch Avenue area. It features period furnishings, operatic performances. P.O. Box 15012 and gardens. University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37901 2614 Thorngrove Pike 1741 Volunteer Boulevard Phone: 865-523-7263 Knoxville, TN 37914 Knoxville, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 865-546-0745 Phone: 865-974-3241 Website: www.knoxville.org

Rogers Memorial Baptist Church Volunteer Landing Knoxville Area Established 1882. Features a paved riverwalk with Chamber Partnership 520 College Street fishing piers, boat docks, picnic 601 West Summit Hill Drive Knoxville, TN facilities, roofed observation Knoxville, TN 37902 Phone: 865-523-2334 towers, and interpretive historical Phone: 865-637-4550 markers. Free admission. Fax: 865-523-2071 Shiloh Presbyterian Church 500 Neyland Drive E-mail: [email protected] Founded in 1865. Knoxville, TN Website: www.knoxvillechamber.com 904 Biddle Street Phone: 800-727-8045 or 865-523-7263 Knoxville, TN Arts Council of Greater Knoxville Phone: 865-525-3701 Volunteer State 408 Tenth Street Veterans Hall of Honor Knoxville, TN Sunsphere Museum Military artifacts and memorabilia from Phone: 877-566-9278 or 865-523-7543 Exhibits tell "The Sunsphere Story," the Revolutionary War to the present. the "History of World Expos from 4000 Chapman Highway Farragut Chamber of Commerce 1815 to 2000," and the history of Knoxville, TN P.O. Box 22461 Knoxville when it was Tennessee's Farragut, TN 37933 Phone: 865-577-0757 capital. Free admission. Phone: 865-675-7057 810 Clinch Avenue Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Knoxville, TN Memorabilia, exhibits, and activities *Special Note: If you are looking Phone: 865-524-1796 related to women's basketball. for accommodations in Knoxville, 700 Hall of Fame Drive get a list of Bed & Breakfasts. You Star of Knoxville Riverboat Knoxville, TN 37915 may find one in a fascinating Authentic riverboat offering rides Phone: 865-633-9000 historic home that provides a great on the Tennessee River. Website: www.wbhof.com stay. 300 Neyland Drive Knoxville, TN World's Fair Park & Festival Center Websites: Phone: 865-525-7827 This site of the 1982 World's Fair City of Knoxville

contains the Knoxville Museum of www.ci.knoxville.tn.us Tennessee Theater Art, the Sunsphere from the fair, A 1928 theatre offers a Classic Film and other attractions. Knoxville Events Series with old-fashioned popcorn, 525 Henley Street www.knoxevents.com newsreels, and a Mighty Wurlitzer Knoxville, TN organ. Home to the Knoxville Museums of Knoxville Phone: 865-523-4228 www.korrnet.org/mok/ Symphony Orchestra and Knoxville Opera Company. 604 Gay Street Knoxville, TN Phone: 865-525-1840 or 865-522-1174

May Route 1, Box 2345 Events Tiptonville, TN 38079-9799 Swamp Tromp Pontoon Boat Cruises Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 Take a wet walk to see huge cypress May through October Website: trees and the wetland ecosystem. Guided boat cruises observe www.state.tn.us/environment/ Reelfoot Lake State Park Reelfoot Lake's birds and scenery. parks/reelfoot/ Tiptonville, TN Reelfoot Lake State Park Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 Reelfoot Wildlife Management Area Tiptonville, TN Website: Phone: 731-253-7343 Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Website: parks/reelfoot/events.htm Visitor Information www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/reelfoot/events.htm September Reelfoot Lake Chamber of Commerce January Roundhouse Music Reunion Route 1, Box 140B A day of music on the shores of Reelfoot Eagle Watch Tours Tiptonville, TN 38079 Reelfoot Lake. January through March Phone: 731-253-8144 Reelfoot Lake State Park View American Bald Eagles and other Tiptonville, TN waterfowl. Call for reservations. Reelfoot Lake Tourist Council Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 Reelfoot Lake State Park 6622 West Highway 22 Website: Tiptonville, TN P.O. Box 9 - Dept. KV www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 Hornbeak, TN 38254 parks/reelfoot/events.htm Phone: 731-538-2666 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ E-mail: [email protected] parks/reelfoot/events.htm The Great River Road Places Promotes historic sites and February Black Bayou Refuge attractions along the Mississippi Reelfoot Eagle Watch Tours Wildlife Management Area from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. (see January) Phone: 731-253-7343 Free brochure. Mississippi River Parkway March National Wildlife Refuge Commission Deep Swamp Canoe Trip Visitor Center and Museum P.O. Box 59159 Take a wetland trip through parts Information and exhibits on area Minneapolis, MN 55459-8207 of Reelfoot Lake's Cypress Swamp. plants and animals. Phone: 612-212-2560 Reelfoot Lake State Park Highway 2122 E-mail: [email protected] Tiptonville, TN Ellington Hall Website: www.mississippi-river.com Phone: 731-253-9652 Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 Website: Reelfoot Lake State Park www.state.tn.us/environment/ Earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 parks/reelfoot/events.htm formed Reelfoot Lake. It now

Reelfoot Eagle Watch Tours spreads over 25,000 acres and (see January) provides a home for numerous birds and other wildlife. The park interpretive center contains natural and cultural history exhibits, plus an earthquake simulator and audiovisual programs. Free admission.

Fort Pillow State Park Events Places The Confederate Army built April Alex Haley House Museum fortifications here in 1861 and Boyhood home and gravesite of named them after a Maury County Civil War Living History Alex Haley, Pulitzer-Prize winning general, Gideon Pillow. Union Camp life and military author of Roots and other books. troops occupied the fort in 1862, demonstrations, and a church 200 South Church Street and Confederate Nathan Bedford service. Free admission. P.O. Box 500 Forrest re-took it in 1864. A Fort Pillow State Park Henning, TN 38041 museum contains Civil War Henning, TN Phone: 731-738-2240 artifacts and displays, and shows a Phone: 731-738-5581 or 731-738-9117 Fax: 731-738-2585 video about the 1864 battle. Website: 3122 Park Road Anderson-Tully www.state.tn.us/environment/ Henning, TN 38041 Wildlife Management Refuge parks/pillow/events.htm Phone: 731-738-5581 or 731-738-9117 Phone: 731-738-0233 July Website: Art Mall www.state.tn.us/environment/ Tomato Festival Cooperative art gallery featuring the parks/pillow/ Tomato contest, tomato tasting, live work of West Tennessee artists. Also music, and more. Free admission. features art instruction, Halls Gin Company Ripley City Park demonstrations, workshops, and Over 20,000 bales of cotton are Ripley, TN special exhibitions. Free admission. processed from September through Phone: 731-635-9541 121 North Main Street December at this computerized gin. Website: www.lctn.com/ Ripley, TN 38063 1279 Industrial Road Halls, TN tomato-festival/ Phone: 731-635-1891

August Bethlehem Cemetery Heritage Park & Museum The Haley family burial plot where A caboose museum that houses a Halls AirSho Chicken George is buried. Dickens Village. Last weekend Highway 51 N and Highway 87 E Henning, TN Vintage air craft and aerobatics, Henning, TN Phone: 731-738-5055 military vehicles, a simulated Phone: 731-738-2240 bombing run, and other exhibits KeyCorner The oldest settlement in Lauderdale and entertainment. Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge Dyersburg Army Air Base County, it contains a monument in Lying in the floodplain of the honor of Henry Rutherford, the Halls, TN Mississippi River, this refuge is home Phone: 731-836-7448 or 731-635-9541 surveyor of the county. to ducks, geese, raptors, shorebirds, Highway 51 North Website: www.lctn.com/air-sho/ wading birds, neotropical migrants, Halls, TN October and bald eagles. 1505 Sand Bluff Road Lauderdale Council of Arts Gallery Choctaw Indian Festival Ripley, TN 38063 Art exhibitions hosted by the Bank Native Americans share their skills, Phone: 731-635-7621 of Ripley. Free admission. traditions, and culture. Fax: 731-635-7621 311 South Washington Street Henning, TN E-mail: [email protected] Ripley, TN Phone: 731-635-9541 Website: Phone: 731-635-7700 or 731-635-1230

southeast.fws.gov/chickasaw/ November Lauderdale County Courthouse Erected in the 1930s, this Civil War Discovery Weekend First Presbyterian Church courthouse has a colorful tile map Civil War lectures and Church established in 1852. Current of the county. Free admission. demonstrations. Free admission. building constructed in 1892. The Court Square Fort Pillow State Park bell is made from silver dollars. Ripley, TN Henning, TN 130 North Jefferson Ripley, TN Phone: 731-635-3500 Phone: 731-738-5581 or 731-738-9117 Website: Phone: 731-635-9751 www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/pillow/events.htm

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 66 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Lower Hatchie "Sugar Hill" Library Wardlaw Steele Home National Wildlife Refuge This first wood-frame house built Built around 1842. Located along the Hatchie River, in Ripley now contains a rural 128 Wardlaw Street next to the Mississippi River, this library collection of genealogy Ripley, TN refuge has ducks, geese, raptors, material. Free admission. Phone: 731-635-7196 shorebirds, wading birds, and 123 Jefferson Street neotropical migrants. Ripley, TN 1505 Sand Bluff Road Phone: 731-635-9541 or 731-635-1872 Visitor Information Ripley, TN 38063 Phone: 731-635-7621 or 731-287-0650 Summar's Tomato Patch Lauderdale County Fax: 731-635-7621 See how tomatoes are grown, picked, Chamber of Commerce E-mail: [email protected] graded, and packed for shipment. 103 East Jackson Avenue Website: southeast.fws.gov/ 1970 Old Brownsville Road Ripley, TN 38063 Ripley, TN Phone: 731-635-9541 lowerhatchie/ Phone: 731-635-9864 or 731-635-5405 Fax: 731-635-9064 Mississippi River Bike Trail E-mail: [email protected] Sunk Lake State Natural Area Several dozen miles of marked road Website: www.lctn.com/chamber/ through the county. Veterans' Museum The Great River Road Phone: 731-635-9541 Located on the site of a World War II B-17 training base, this museum Promotes historic sites and attractions Murray Hudson's contains exhibits on both World Wars, along the Mississippi from Canada to Antiquarian Books and Maps Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. It the Gulf of Mexico. Free brochure. One man's collection of books, features diaries, letters, technical Mississippi River Parkway globes, and maps from the past documents, vehicles, uniforms, and Commission several centuries. videos, plus a research library and P.O. Box 59159 109 South Church Street archives. Free admission. Minneapolis, MN 55459-8207 Halls, TN Arnold Air Field Phone: 612-212-2560 Phone: 731-635-9864 or 731-635-5405 E-mail: [email protected] 719 West Main Website: www.mississippi-river.com Railroad Park Halls, TN 38040 Halls, TN Phone: 731-836-7448 or 731-635-9541 Website: Phone: 731-836-9653 Fax: 731-836-9457 Lauderdale County Tennessee www.lctn.com W. G. L. Rice Memorial Park Host to many African-American events. Ripley, TN Phone: 731-635-9541

LAWRENCE COUNTY - LAWRENCEBURG

parks/davidsp/events.htm David Crockett State Park Events May Lawrenceburg, TN Phone: 931-762-9408 or 931-762-8047 Ani-Kawi Monthly Archery Shoot Tennessee Valley Jamboree Website: David Crockett State Park Friday nights from Memorial Day www.state.tn.us/environment/ Lawrenceburg, TN through Labor Day Phone: 931-762-9408 parks/davidsp/events.htm Live country, bluegrass, and gospel Website: music. June www.state.tn.us/environment/ David Crockett State Park Summer Adventures parks/davidsp/events.htm Lawrenceburg, TN (see May) April Phone: 931-762-9408 Website: Summertown Bluegrass Festival David Crockett Spring Festival www.state.tn.us/environment/ Tennessee Valley Jamboree Wildflower walks, aquatic creek parks/davidsp/events.htm hikes, and other nature activities. (see May) David Crockett State Park Summer Adventures Lawrenceburg, TN Memorial Day through Labor Day Phone: 931-762-9408 or 931-762-8047 Grist mill demonstrations, living Website: history programs, and interpretive www.state.tn.us/environment/ hikes.

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 67 © 2003 The Notgrass Company July Coca-Cola Palace Museum James D. Vaughan Museum Housed in an 1895 store, this James D. Vaughan is consider the Summer Adventures museum features a large collection "Father of Southern Gospel Music". (see May) of Coca-Cola memorabilia and He sponsored and recorded the first Tennessee Valley Jamboree other antiques. Open by professional southern gospel quartets (see May) appointment. Free Admission. and started the first southern gospel August 2nd and Broad Street magazine and radio station. Loretto, TN Sun Trust Bank, 2nd floor David Crockett Days Phone: 931-853-6227 Public Square Celebrate David Crockett's birthday P.O. Box 607 with living history demonstrations, David Crockett Cabin and Museum Lawrenceburg, TN 38464 Memorabilia and displays of period live period music, hay wagon rides, Phone: 931-762-2484 games, and contests. articles. Free admission. David Crockett State Park South Military Avenue Laurel Hill Lawrenceburg, TN Lawrenceburg, TN Wildlife Management Area Phone: 931-762-9408 or 931-762-8047 Phone: 931-762-4911 Phone: 931-762-5749

Website: David Crockett State Park Lawrenceburg Public Square www.state.tn.us/environment/ Crockett moved to Lawrence Includes a life-sized bronze statue parks/davidsp/events.htm County in 1817 and served as a of David Crockett and an 1849 Summer Adventures justice of the peace, a militia monument for the Lawrenceburg (see May) colonel, and a state representative. Blues who fought in the Mexican A museum at the park presents War. The existence of that Tennessee Valley Jamboree information about his life. monument saved the County (see May) 1400 West Gaines Courthouse from destruction

September P. O. Box 398 during the Civil War. Lawrenceburg, TN 38464 Lawrenceburg, TN Summer Adventures Phone: 931-762-9408 Phone: 931-762-4911

(see May) Fax: 931-766-0047 Website: Loretto Milling Company Tennessee Valley Jamboree www.state.tn.us/environment/ Flour and meal gristmills in (see May) operation since the early 1900s. parks/davidsp/ Loretto, TN Duck River Orchard & Phone: 931-853-4351 Places Country Store Mama J's Cabin Amish Community Orchard-grown peaches, apples, raspberries, and strawberries, plus A log cabin from the mid-1800s Amish families started migrating to features crafts made by local artists. Lawrence County in 1944. Their a bakery and other foods. Free admission. Free admission. community offers baskets, 26258 Highway 64 furniture, seasonal produce, and 3 Monument Road Summertown, TN Lawrenceburg, TN more. Phone: 931-762-0678

Ethridge, TN Phone: 800-694-4043 or 931-964-4040 Natchez Trace Parkway Amish Country Galleries Dutch Country Bakery & Deli Features Amish crafts and In the late 18th and early 19th Features Amish crafts and art by centuries, settlers in the Ohio River local artists. Free admission. information about the Amish community. Wagon tours available. Valley were floating their produce 3931 Highway 43 North down the Mississippi River to New Ethridge, TN Free admission. 3939 Highway 43 North Orleans. They sold their flatboats Phone: 931-829-2126 for lumber, and the path now Ethridge, TN known as the Natchez Trace Cherokee & David Crockett Phone: 800-535-2842 or 931-829-2147 Museum & Cultural Center provided a good route back home. Exhibits of Cherokee art and the Granny’s TV Network and The introduction of steamboats history of David Crockett and Welcome Center encouraged return travel by river, Lawrence County. Sarah Evetts broadcasts one of the and the Trace lost much of its Public Square nation's smallest TV stations (10 traffic. Historic sites, trails, and Lawrenceburg, TN watts) out of her home. Her picnic areas are located along the Phone: 931-762-4911 welcome center features Amish, Natchez Trace, which passes Indian, and other regional crafts. through Lawrence County. Wagon tours available. Free 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway admission. Tupelo, MS 38804 44 Marcella Road Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 Ethridge, TN Website: www.nps.gov/natr/ Phone: 931-829-2419 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 68 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Old Jail Museum St. Joseph Church Visitor Information Built in the 1800s, this old jail Built in the 1880s. contains county memorabilia. Loretto, TN Lawrence County Waterloo Street Chamber of Commerce Tennessee Valley Jamboree Lawrenceburg, TN 1609 North Locust Avenue Country, bluegrass, and gospel Phone: 931-762-4911 P.O. Box 86 music every second and fourth Lawrenceburg, TN 38464 Ralph J. Passarella Saturday evening. Free admission. Phone: 931-762-4911 or 931-762-6944 Memorial Museum 1709 Deer Hollow Drive Fax: 931-762-3153 Learn about the history of Lawrenceburg, TN E-mail: [email protected] Lawrence County and everyday life Phone: 931-762-6249 Website: over the last two centuries. This www.lawrenceburg.com/chamber/ museum features newspapers, magazines, books, toys, quilts, Treasures and More on Highway 64 medical equipment, telephone This free brochure highlights equipment, household goods, and attractions in five counties along more. Free admission. the Alabama border.

Main Street Phone: 931-762-4911 Loretto, TN 38469 Websites: Phone: 931-853-4351 Lawrenceburg, Tennessee www.lawrenceburg.com

LEWIS COUNTY - HOHENWALD

Oktober Heritage Festival Buffalo River Events Second weekend Canoes are available for rental on Lewis County Saddle Club Arts and crafts, food booths, music, this river. Horse Shows car show, loggers competition and Phone: 931-796-2211 Every fourth Saturday exhibition, and a Civil War camp. Cane Creek Grist Mill April through September Hohenwald, TN An operating water-powered grain Amateur equestrian competitions Phone: 931-796-4084 mill. Free admission. with saddle horses, pleasure horses, December 232 Cane Creek Road and games horses. Hohenwald, TN Christmas Tour of Homes June Phone: 931-796-7200 First Saturday

Tennessee Walking Horse Show Devil's Backbone State Natural Area Fourth Friday Places The Elephant Sanctuary A regional competition of The only private sanctuary in the Tennessee Walking Horses. Blackburn Farmstead and United States for elderly Asian July Pioneer Museum elephants. You can observe the Features two pioneer log structures elephants from remote cameras. Oak Grove Fish Fry built around 1806 on the original P.O. Box 393 Second Friday Natchez Trace. The house served Hohenwald, TN 38462 This community has enjoyed a day as the first Lewis County Court and Phone: 931-796-6500 of catfish, hushpuppies, homemade Post Office in the mid-1840s. desserts, and all the trimmings for U.S. Highway 412 Fall Hollow over 40 years. Hohenwald, TN Six small streams converge into a

Phone: 931-796-7264 30-foot waterfall. October Brown's Variety Store The Farm Quilt Show This business opened in the early A community founded in 1971 by a First Saturday 1900s, and it still offers a "dime- college professor and students to Many different types of quilts are store" atmosphere. Today it offers preserve the '60s counterculture on display, including antique quilts household goods, electronics, and lifestyle. Tours are available by that have been handed down for more. appointment only. generations. P.O. Box 90 18 East Main Street Hohenwald, TN 38462 Summertown, TN 38483-0090 Phone: 931-796-5521 Phone: 931-964-3574

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 69 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Gordonsburg Lewis County Public Library Wilhelm Tellplatz City Park This town contains remnants of An ornate room built by a German This park features a replica of an blue phosphate mining operations immigrant in the early 1900s was 1880 bandstand, a fountain, and from the early 1900s and other moved here and now contains local outdoor checkers. historic sites. historical and genealogical materials. South Maple Phone: 931-796-2446 15 Kyle Avenue Hohenwald, TN Hohenwald, TN 38462 Historic Homes Phone: 931-796-5365 Visitor Information Lewis County contains several historic homes, including the 1850s Meriwether Lewis Hohenwald/Lewis County home of Nathaniel Tait, George Monument and Park Chamber of Commerce Odom's 1865 log house, an 1888 Meriwether Lewis died 112 East Main Street Victorian house, a 1910 "pre-fab" mysteriously here in 1809, and a P.O. Box 819 house from the Sears-Roebuck monument marks his grave. A Hohenwald, TN 38462 catalog, and more. replica of the inn where he died Phone: 931-796-4084 contains a small museum of his life. Hohenwald Depot Free admission. Hohenwald/Lewis County This original 1896 depot contains 189 Meriwether Lewis Park Economic Development Council small railroad displays and the Hohenwald, TN 112 East Main St. Chamber of Commerce Visitor P.O. Box 10 Phone: 931-796-2921 or 601-680-4025 Center. Free admission. Hohenwald, TN 38462 112 East Main Street Metal Ford Trails Phone: 931-796-6012 Hohenwald, TN 38462 Walk along the Buffalo River where Fax: 931-796-6020 Phone: 931-796-4084 the Natchez Trace travelers crossed E-mail: [email protected] and learn about the Napier mining Website: www.lewisedc.org Lewis County Museum operation of the early 1800s. Contains local history exhibits and Traveling south on the Natchez Dan Maddox's collection of Trace, look for the signs to Metal international game trophy mounts, Ford just south of Hohenwald. one of the largest in the Western Natchez Trace Parkway Hemisphere. Over 120 rare and A late 18th- and early 19th-century exotic animals are on display. travel route route from New 108 East Main Street Orleans back to Tennessee and Hohenwald, TN other areas. Historic sites, trails, Phone: 931-796-1550 and picnic areas are located along the Natchez Trace, which passes through Lewis County. 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway Tupelo, MS 38804 Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 Website: www.nps.gov/natr/

LINCOLN COUNTY - FAYETTEVILLE

Cahoots Events Places A restaurant built into the old fire September/October Bagley House Bed & Breakfast house and jail, which was used from A mid-1800s Victorian-style house. 1867 into the 1970s. The building Pumpkin Patch Festival The grounds contain several out- retains much of its interior design, Phone: 931-433-1234 including cell bars. buildings, including an original, December early-1800s pioneer log home. 114 West Market Street 1801 Winchester Highway Fayetteville, TN 37334 Host of Christmas Past Fayetteville, TN 37334 Phone: 931-433-1173 Storytelling, music, and other activities. Phone: 931-433-3799 Elk River Canoe Rental Fayetteville, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-433-1234 or 931-433-9543 90 Smithland Road Kelso, TN 37348

Phone: 931-937-6886 E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 70 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Elk Yarn Mill Historic Home Walking Tour Visitor Information Established 1900. Self-guided tour past several historic buildings. Free brochure. Fayetteville-Lincoln County Fayetteville Bed & Breakfast Fayetteville, TN Chamber of Commerce Home built around 1915. Phone: 931-433-1234 208 South Elk Avenue 1111 West Washington Street Kelso Canteen and Canoe Rental P.O. Box 515 Fayetteville, TN 37334 2167 Winchester Highway Fayetteville, TN 37334 Phone: 931-433-9636 Kelso, TN 37348 Phone: 931-433-1234 Fayetteville/Lincoln County Phone: 800-933-2827 or 931-438-4402 Fax: 931-433-9087 Museum & Civic Center E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Military, medical, and agricultural Website: Website: www.vallnet.com/ exhibits, plus a large arrowhead www.luckie.com/kelsocanteen/ chamberofcommerce/ collection. Located in the Old Borden Old Cowan Plantation Treasures and More on Highway 64 Milk Plant. Free Admission. An 1886 colonial home now used as This free brochure highlights 521 South Main Avenue a Bed & Breakfast. attractions in five counties along Fayetteville, TN 37334 126 Boonshill Road the Alabama border. Phone: 931-438-0339 or 931-433-1234 Fayetteville, TN 37334 Phone: 931-433-1234 Flintville Hatchery Phone: 931-433-0225 Website: Wildlife Management Area City of Fayetteville Phone: 615-781-6622 www.fayettevilletn.com Greasy Cove Trail Rides Horse and wagon rides. 296 Keith Lane Huntland, TN 37345 Phone: 800-827-0276 or 931-469-1333 Website: edge.edge.net/~jwalker/

LOUDON COUNTY - LOUDON

October Eagle's Wings Archery Pro Shop Events Indoor lanes, an outdoor 3-D October Fest April range, an outdoor practice range, Vintage motorcycles and cars, interactive virtual reality videos, Loudon County Dogwood Festival storytelling, fire engine rides, and and archery tournaments. Phone: 865-988-8781 more. Free admission. 13202 Highway 321 North Loudon, TN June Lenoir City, TN 37771 Phone: 865-458-9020

Phone: 865-986-2567 Lenoir City Arts & Crafts Festival Fort Loudon Dam and Lake Craft demonstrations and exhibits Places Tours of the hydro-power dam are of basketry, pottery, jewelry, woodworking, stained glass, and Carmichael Inn Museum available by arrangement. Free textile art. Free admission. An 1810 log cabin featuring county admission. Lenoir City Park memorabilia. U.S. Highway 321 Lenoir City 501 Poplar Street Lenoir City, TN

Phone: 865-986-5820 Loudon, TN 37774 Phone: 865-986-3737

Phone: 865-458-1442 Lenoir City Museum August The Crosseyed Cricket Housed in an 1890 building and Smoky Mountain A recreation area featuring a part of a complex with the original Fiddler's Convention working gristmill from around 1860. 1820 Lenoir home and an 1830s Bluegrass, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, 751 Country Lane cotton mill. Free admission. guitar, clogging, and buck dancing Lenoir City, TN 110 Depot Street competitions. Phone: 865-986-5435 Lenoir City, TN Liberty Park Phone: 865-986-7721 or 865-693-3664 Loudon, TN Phone: 865-458-9380 or 865-458-5956

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 71 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Lenoir City Walking Tour Melton Hill Dam & Lake Sweetwater Valley Farm Self-guided tour of sites and Includes an observatory's visitors See how cheese is made. structures that were important to center. Free admission. 17988 West Lee Highway the establishment of Lenoir City. Highway 95 Philadelphia, TN 37846 Free brochure. Loudon, TN Phone: 877-862-4332 or 865-458-9192

Phone: 888-568-3662 or 865-458-1442 Phone: 865-988-2440

Loudon Walking Tour National Campground Visitor Information Self-guided tour of renovated Site of annual camp meetings historic buildings in downtown begun in the 1870s to resolve Carmichael Inn Loudon. Free brochure. differences left from the Civil War. Tourist Information Center 501 Poplar Street Phone: 888-568-3662 or 865-458-1442 Phone: 888-568-3662 or 865-986-6822 Loudon, TN 37774 Martel Methodist Church Old Lenoir City Hall Phone: 865-458-1442 Established 1796. This museum features artifacts Loudon County Visitors Bureau Phone: 888-568-3662 or 865-986-6822 from and exhibits about early Lenoir City businesses, the Civil 1075 Highway 321 North Mary Wilbourn Art Gallery War, the World Wars, and the Lenoir City, TN 37771 Features regional art and fine Lenoir family. Special exhibits are Mailing Address: crafts. Free admission. rotated seasonally. P.O. Box 909 1101 East First Street Loudon, TN 37774 Lenoir City, TN Loudon, TN Phone: 888-568-3662 or 865-986-6822 Phone: 865-986-1737 Peregrine International E-mail:

Museum of Scouting [email protected] Covers the history of the Scout Website: www.loudoncounty.org movement worldwide. 411 South Greenback, TN 37742 Phone: 865-856-0244

MACON COUNTY - LAFAYETTE

July Events Places Folk Medicine Festival April Deerwood Amphitheater Medicine shows, music, Highway 52 ventriloquists, games, storytelling, People's Choice Art Exhibit Hosts country, bluegrass, and other and more. Macon County High School musical performances. Red Boiling Springs, TN Lafayette, TN Red Boiling Springs, TN Phone: 615-669-2180 May Phone: 615-699-2999 Rawhide World Champion Rodeo Galen School Museum Show & Shine Antique/Classic Macon County Fairgrounds Car Show This 1928 school contains a Lafayette, TN Lafayette, TN museum of county history. September P.O. Box 326 County Music Extravaganza Red Boiling Springs, TN Macon County Fairgrounds Antique Car Show Phone: 615-666-4167 or 615-699-2551 Lafayette, TN Red Boiling Springs, TN Key Park June October Features rock gardens, a fountain, a

Walking Horse and Racking Show Heritage Days and Sorghum bandstand, and a log home built in Festival 1842. The home contains Hillbilly Day Red Boiling Springs, TN photographs, books, antiques, and Fish fry, Hillbilly Auction, gospel clothing from the 1800s. singing, music competitions, and December Free admission. more. Church Street Candlelight Tour of Homes Key Park Lafayette, TN Lafayette and Red Boiling Springs, TN Lafayette, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 72 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Little House Crafts Red Boiling Springs Visitor Information Handmade wood crafts, including This community developed into a gingerbread house trim, shelves, mineral water health resort in the Macon County and racks. Free admission. early 1900s. Three of the hotels Chamber of Commerce 503 East Main Street remain, a walking and driving tour Key Park Red Boiling Springs, TN highlights other sites, and visitors 208 Church Street Phone: 615-699-2345 can still sample the mineral waters. Lafayette, TN 37083

Highway 52 Phone: 615-666-5885 Newberry & Sons Chairs Phone: 615-699-2180 Fifth-generation chairmakers Upper Cumberland creating rocking chairs, Wildwoods Folk School Tourism Association ladderbacks, footstools, and Classes in quilting, leather, metal P.O. Box 2411 children's chairs. smithing, woodworking, ceramics, Cookeville, TN 38502 1593 Jennings Creek Road and more. A gallery displays Phone: 800-868-7237 or 615-520-1088 Red Boiling Springs, TN student art. Phone: 615-699-3755 Highway 52 Red Boiling Springs, TN Phone: 615-699-3734

MADISON COUNTY - JACKSON

October Casey Jones Village Events Features the home of Casey Jones, Rocktoberfest May who died heroically in a railroad Live entertainment and more. collision in 1900. The museum Forked Deer River Festival Jackson, TN includes artifacts, an original steam Folk artists, workshops, live Phone: 731-427-7573 locomotive, and a model railroad entertainment, and more. Fax: 731-427-7698 exhibit. Casey Jones Village also Jackson Fairgrounds Park E-mail: [email protected] includes a recreated turn-of-the- Jackson, TN December century country store with Phone: 731-427-1565 thousands of antiques on display E-mail: [email protected] New Year's Eve Gospel Celebration and an 1890s ice cream parlor, plus Website: www.forkeddeerfestival.com Features nationally-known gospel a Music Theater with special recording artists. Shannon Street Blues & events during the year. Jackson, TN Heritage Festival Owned by homeschooling family. Phone: 731-427-9616 Casey Jones Lane Jackson, TN Phone: 731-427-7573 Jackson, TN 38305 Fax: 731-427-7698 Places Phone: 800-748-9588 or 731-668-1222 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 731-668-6889 Britton Lane Battlefield E-mail: [email protected] Fall Union and Confederate troops Website: www.caseyjones.com clashed here on September 1, 1862. Casey Jones Balloon Classic Cypress Grove Natural Park The site includes a restored cabin Jackson, TN Nature center, observation tower, that served as a hospital for both E-mail: [email protected] picnic shelter, and two fishing sides during the battle. Free Website: www.balloons.tn.org lakes. The Aerie Trail Raptor admission. Center keeps injured birds of prey. September 280 Britton Lane U.S. Highway 70 West Jackson, TN Phone: 731-425-8364 Archaeofest Phone: 731-935-2209 Third weekend E-mail: [email protected] Dunlap-Williams Log House Features Native American music, Website: Museum of Early America dance, and craft demonstrations, www.brittonlane1862.madison.tn.us Lambuth College plus other natural and cultural 705 Lambuth Boulevard activities. Free admission. Jackson, TN 38301-5296 Pinson Mounds State Phone: 731-425-3310 Archaeological Park Pinson, TN Phone: 731-988-5614 www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/pinson/archfest.htm Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 73 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Electro Chalybeate Well Pinson Mounds Wolfe Communications Workers in the late 1800s State Archaeological Park The largest African-American radio discovered an underground river of The largest Middle Woodland museum in Tennessee, including a mineral water. The spring is today Indian ceremonial site in the collection of vintage antique radios. sheltered by a gazebo. southeast United States. Built in 425 East Chester Street 604 South Royal Street the early centuries AD, this site Jackson, TN Jackson, TN contains at least 15 ceremonial and Phone: 731-427-9616

Phone: 731-422-7500 burial mounds, including Sauls Mound, which is 72 feet tall. The Visitor Information Lake Graham park features a museum designed to Fishing lake. Free admission. replicate a Native American Jackson-Madison County 300 Hurts Chapel Road mound, and archaeology programs Jackson, TN Convention & Visitors Bureau and films during the year. 314 East Main Street Phone: 731-423-4937 Fieldwork is usually conducted in Jackson, TN 38301 the summer, and visitors may Phone: 800-498-4748 or 731-425-8333 N.C. & St. L. Depot and watch the archaeologists at work. Railroad Museum Fax: 731-425-8339 460 Ozier Road E-mail: [email protected] The museum and model railroad Pinson, TN 38366 display reflect Jackson's history as Website: www.jacksontncvb.com Phone: 731-988-5614 the West Tennessee railroad hub. Fax: 731-424-3909 Jackson Area 582 South Royal Street Website: Chamber of Commerce Jackson, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ 197 Auditorium Street Phone: 731-425-8223 P.O. Box 1904 parks/pinson/ Performing Arts Center Jackson, TN 38302-1904 Jackson, TN South Fork Waterfowl Refuge Phone: 731-423-2200 Phone: 731-427-7573 Wildlife Management Area Fax: 731-424-4860 Phone: 731-423-5725 E-mail: [email protected]

MARION COUNTY - JASPER

Ketner's Mill Country Fair Opera House Events Weekend after Columbus Day Originally built in 1890, this April The first country fair was building was turned into an antique celebrated at Ketner's Mill in 1882 and collectible shop in the 1980s. National Cornbread Festival after the competition of a major The upstairs apartment is Fifteen top cornbread cookers face addition to the mill. decorated in 1950s-style. off in a competition. Music, rides, Victoria, TN Jukeboxes, neon signs, old Coke crafts, and other food add to the machines, coin-operated games, and festive atmosphere. other memorabilia are downstairs. Places P.O. Box 247 230 Cedar Avenue

South Pittsburg, TN 37380 South Pittsburg, TN 37380 Phone: 423-837-0022 Chimneys State Natural Area Phone: 423-837-6650 Website: www.nationalcornbread.com Foster Falls Hiking and backpacking trails. Prentice Cooper State Forest and September Wildlife Management Area Free admission. Whitwell Labor Day Celebration 498 Foster Falls Road State Route 27 Civil War re-enactors, games, Sequatchie, TN Whitwell, TN music, fireworks. Phone: 931-924-2980 Phone: 423-658-9201 or 423-658-5551

Whitwell, TN Hicks Gap State Natural Area October Ketner's Mill Fall Color Cruise and Folk Standing on the banks of the Big Festival Sequatchie River, parts of this grist Gospel and country music, food, mill date back to 1824. and crafts. State Highway 27

Victoria, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 74 © 2003 The Notgrass Company South Cumberland Route 1, Box 2196 Visitor Information State Recreation Area Monteagle, TN 37356 Grundy Lakes in this area is the Phone: 931-924-2980 Marion County site of the Lone Rock Coke Ovens Website: Chamber of Commerce where locally mined coal was www.state.tn.us/environment/ 24 Courthouse Square converted to coke using convict parks/socumb/ Jasper, TN 37347 labor from 1873 to 1896. The Park Phone: 423-942-5103 features waterfalls, a natural bridge, and the Great Stone Door.

MARSHALL COUNTY - LEWISBURG

Berlin Historic District Belfast, TN Events This community developed around Ladies Restroom July the Big Springs in the 1830s. Built in 1924 for the use of women Look for sign on Highway 431 and children who came to town to Invitational Tractor Pull west of Lewisburg. Stop and ask in shop and conduct business. Third week Lewisburg. 1st Avenue This is one of the largest pulling Lewisburg, TN events in the nation, drawing Boyhood Home of nearly 20,000 people annually. Nathan Bedford Forrest Lairdland Farm Log Cabin Forrest was a leading Confederate Bed & Breakfast August cavalry general. Horse trails around a restored 1830s

Belfast Walking Horse Show Just west of Chapel Hill which is on log cabin. Bring your own horse. Belfast, TN Highway 31A. 3174 Blackburn Hollow Road Cornersville, TN 37047 Phone: 931-276-2486 Cornersville Methodist Church Phone: 888-231-8631 or 931-363-9080 October Established 1852. 31A South Marshall County Historical Museum October Pumpkin Festival Cornersville, TN Learn about the history and Every weekend residents by browsing through the Pumpkin picking, hayrides, exotic Cumberland Presbyterian Church displays of tools, household goods, animals, hiking, and more. of Chapel Hill World War I and II memorabilia, Fox Cave Park, Inc. Established 1860. and more. 31A North 2164 Bethbirei Road Free admission. Lewisburg, TN Chapel Hill, TN College Street Phone: 931-359-5520 Dixie Theatre Lewisburg, TN

Built in 1913 as a silent movie Marymont Places house, this renovated theatre now features dramatic and musical Built by Morgan Fitzpatrick in 1832. Baird-Welch House performances. Highway 50A Zenus Baird built this house in the Town Square Mooresville, TN early 1820s, and it is one of the Lewisburg least-changed houses in the county. Palmetto Farm Private residence. Henry Horton State Park Thomas Montgomery built this 110 Water Street 4358 Nashville Highway Greek Revival house in the 1840s. Chapel Hill, TN 37034 Cornersville, TN Highway 64 Phone: 931-364-7724 On Marshall/Bedford County line. Bear Creek Website: Cumberland Presbyterian Church www.state.tn.us/environment/ Petersburg Historic District Established 1897. parks/henry/ Contains two schools, two West of Lewisburg on Bear Creek J. Chase Adams Home churches, a cemetery, a jail, and Road. other buildings. The Victorian home of a Lewisburg Petersburg, TN Belfast Depot Mayor. Considered the best surviving Overlooks Lewisburg Square Presbyterian Church of Petersburg structure of the Duck River Valley Lewisburg, TN Established 1859. Narrow Gauge Railroad. J. C. Tate General Store Petersburg, TN U. S. Highway 431 This store opened in 1808 and was East of Lewisburg in Belfast later moved to its present site.

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 75 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Robert Harris House at Silver Creek Valley Farm Yesteryear Stables Robert Harris built this house for The Ewing family has owned this Guided horse rides, pony and hay his bride between 1880 and 1890. farm since they moved here from rides, carriage rides, and a pistol Highway 50A Virginia in the early 1800s. and rifle range. West of Lewisburg 31A South Warner Road About five miles south of P.O. Box 599 Swaim House Lewisburg. Chapel Hill, TN 37034 Perhaps built by a doctor in the Phone: 931-364-7755 1840s, this is the oldest brick Verona Methodist Church structure in Chapel Hill. Established 1879. Main Street Verona, TN Visitor Information Chapel Hill, TN Ask in Lewisburg for directions to Marshall County Verona Road. Chamber of Commerce 227 2nd Avenue North

Lewisburg, TN 37091 Phone: 931-359-3863 Fax: 931-359-8411 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lewisburg.tn.us

MAURY COUNTY - COLUMBIA

June Tellabration Events Jazz in June Weekend before Thanksgiving April First weekend Participants around the world Woodland Park gather in their communities for a Mule Day Columbia, TN time of storytelling. Usually first weekend Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 Spring Hill, TN Columbia claims for itself the honor E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-486-9802 or 615-302-0248 of "Mule Capital of the World". Website: www.tellabration.org Clogging, food, music, and crafts, September plus mule shows, mule pulling, December Majestic Middle Tennessee Fall donkey softball, and more. Tour Tennessee Plantation Christmas Columbia, TN Usually last weekend Costumed guides lead tours of Phone: 931-381-9557 One of the nation's oldest home decorated town and country

pilgrimages, featuring public and antebellum homes. Holiday music private homes. and foods. Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

October

Civil War Battle Re-enactment Places

Rippavilla Accents and Antiques Spring Hill, TN Visit with local artists and watch Phone: 931-486-9037 them work. Free admission. November 37 Public Square

Commemoration of Columbia, TN James K. Polk's Birthdate Phone: 931-380-8975 First Sunday E-mail: [email protected]

Guided tour and refreshments. Antebellum Home Tours Spring Free admission. Groups of ten or more can tour Spring Pilgrimage James K. Polk Home public and private homes, historic Tours of plantations and Columbia, TN churches, and other sites. antebellum city homes and gardens. Phone: 931-388-2354 Specialized amenities are available.

Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 Phone: 888-852-1860

E-mail: [email protected]

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 76 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Ashwood Pottery James K. Polk Home Natchez Trace Parkway Wheel-thrown pottery and other This house, the first brick home in In the late 18th and early 19th crafts. Free admission. Columbia, was built around 1817 centuries, settlers in the Ohio River 111 West 7th Street by Samuel Polk, father of President Valley were floating their produce Columbia, TN James K. Polk. It contains family down the Mississippi River to New Phone: 931-381-8409 portraits and furnishings. The Orleans. They sold their flatboats for adjacent Sisters' House contains lumber, and the path now known as Ashwood Rural Historic District additional Polk family items and the Natchez Trace provided a good Contains intact plantation Mexican War artifacts. Free route back home. Historic sites, complexes and Canaan, a small admission on the first Sunday in trails, and picnic areas are located black community formed after the November. along the Natchez Trace, which Civil War. 301 West 7th Street passes through Maury County. Maps U.S. Route 43 between P.O. Box 741 are available on the Trace itself and Columbia and Mount Pleasant Columbia, TN 38402 from the Maury County Convention Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 Phone: 931-388-2354 and Visitors Bureau. E-mail: [email protected] 308 West 7th Street Maury County Arts Guild Athenaeum Rectory Columbia, TN 38402 Dinner theater performances, art Phone: 931-381-7176 This house was built around 1835 for classes, and art exhibitions. Samuel Polk Walker, nephew of Website: www.nps.gov/natr/ 705 Lion Parkway President James K. Polk, though Columbia, TN Oaklawn Walker never lived there. Frank Phone: 931-381-9494 or 931-381-7176 This is the home Absolom Gillette Smith acquired the house, Thompson, built in 1835. and he started a private school for Monsanto Ponds Confederate General Hood stayed girls, the Athenaeum. The building The Monsanto Chemical Company here before the Battle of Franklin in employs thirteen architectural styles. built these ponds to contain the 1864. Private residence as of 2000. 808 Athenaeum Street slurry from its phosphate refining May reopen to the public later. P.O. Box 942 process. The marsh habitat that Columbia, TN 38402 developed provides a home for Rattle & Snap Phone: 931-381-4822 or 931-388-1386 numerous types of waterfowl that George Washington Polk built this are otherwise uncommon in Middle mansion in 1845. It now contains Chicksaw Trace Park Tennessee. Observation blinds period furnishings, many from Polk On the three hundred acres of this allow close-up viewing and family homes. Gardens, farms, an park are mountain bike trails, photographing. Free admission. ice house, and a carriage house and picnic shelters, a remote-controlled Monsanto Road, Highway 50 West stables surround the house. The model airplane field, and an Columbia, TN 38401 house and grounds are open for historically preserved log cabin. Phone: 931-380-9300 or 931-388-2155 tours, and meals are available by Four miles west of Columbia on reservation. Guided tours of all Highway 7. Mt. Pleasant four Polk family sites in the area Duck River The town of Mt. Pleasant contains are also available. Wildlife Management Area numerous houses and churches from 1522 North Main Street the 19th and early 20th centuries. Phone: 931-840-4042 Mt. Pleasant, TN Some are open for public viewing. Phone: 800-258-3875 or 931-379-5861 Elm Springs Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 E-mail: James Dick, a wealthy businessman E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] from New Orleans, built this house Website: www.rattleandsnap.com in 1838 for his sister Sarah. It now Mt. Pleasant/Maury serves as the headquarters for the Phosphate Museum

Sons of Confederate Veterans and The population of Mt. Pleasant

Order of the Stars and Bars. nearly quadrupled during the late 740 Mooresville Pike 1800s as phosphate mining grew. P.O. Box 59 In addition to fossils and phosphate Columbia, TN 38402 artifacts, this museum houses Phone: 931-380-1844 Native American artifacts, Civil War items, antique farm implements, and Hamilton Place household items from the late 19th Lucius Junius Polk built this house and early 20th centuries. Admission in 1832 when he married Mary free. Ann Eastin, niece of Rachel Jackson. 108 Public Square 1605 North Main Street P.O. Box 373 Mt. Pleasant, TN Mt. Pleasant, TN 38474

Phone: 931-379-9511

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 77 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Rippavilla Kedron Road Visitor Information This house, built in the 1850s, was Spring Hill, TN the home Major Nathaniel Cheairs. Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 Maury County Both Union and Confederate E-mail: [email protected] Chamber of Commerce armies used it during the Civil St. John's Church 106 West 6th Street War, and it is the site for Civil War One of the nation's last plantation Columbia, TN 38401 re-enactments today. Visitors can churches, built by Bishop and Phone: 931-388-2155 tour the house, which is largely General Leonidas Polk around 1842. restored to an 1860 appearance. Maury County Highway 243 5700 Main Street Convention and Visitors Bureau Mt. Pleasant, TN Spring Hill, TN 37174 8 Public Square Phone: 800-258-3875 P.O. Box 1076 Phone: 931-486-9037 St. Peter's Episcopal Church Columbia, TN 38402 Saturn Welcome Center Located next door to President Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 Located on the grounds of the Polk's home. The funerals of four E-mail: [email protected] Haynes Haven mansion, this center generals killed at the Battle of Website: www.antebellum.com traces the development of the Franklin were held here. Mt. Pleasant Area automotive facility here. Columbia, TN Chamber of Commerce

100 Saturn Parkway 104 North Main Street Spring Hill, TN Tennessee Antebellum Trail A 90-mile self-driving tour of 54 Mt. Pleasant, TN 38474

Phone: 800-326-3321 or 931-486-5000 Phone: 931-379-7703 historic sites, plantations, and Civil

Spring Hill War battlefields in Davidson, Tennessee Antebellum Trail The town of Spring Hill contains Williamson, and Maury counties. A Headquarters numerous houses and churches free map guide and discounted Rippavilla Plantation from the 19th century. Some are tickets to the nine sites that have 5700 Main Street open for public viewing. admission charges are available. Spring Hill, TN 37174 Phone: 888-852-1860 or 931-381-7176 5700 Main Street Phone: 800-381-1865 or 931-486-9055 E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 877 Spring Hill, TN 37174 Spring Hill Battlefield Phone: 800-381-1865 or 931-486-9055 On November 29, 1864, Confederate forces under John Bell Williamsport Hood engaged Federal troops Wildlife Management Area under John M. Schofield, but Phone: 615-781-6622 Schofield slipped past Hood during the night. The next day saw a Zion Presbyterian Church decisive victory for the Union at One of the earliest frontier Franklin. A driving tour map of the churches built by Scots-Irish battlefield is available. Free Presbyterians in the early 1800s. admission. 2322 Old Zion Road Columbia, TN Phone: 931-388-5731

Englewood Textile Museum McMinn County Events Explores the story of the textile Living Heritage Museum February industry in Englewood and the Numerous exhibits trace the women who worked in the mills. history of McMinn County from Gospel Explosion Free admission. the Cherokees to the 1940s. Gem Theater 17 South Niota Street Includes glassware from the 19th Etowah, TN P.O. Box 37329 and 20th centuries. Phone: 423-263-7232 Englewood, TN 37329 522 West Madison Avenue

Spring Phone: 423-887-5455 or 423-887-5224 P.O. Box 889

Athens, TN 37371-0889 Quilt Show Furs to Factories Heritage Trail Phone: 423-745-0329 McMinn County Living Heritage Self-guided auto tour of museums E-mail: [email protected] and historic sites that highlight the Museum Website: www.usit.com/livher Athens, TN industrial revolution in Phone: 423-745-0329 southeastern Tennessee. Mouse Creek Nursery P.O. Box 143 This nursery grows over 600 March Etowah, TN 37331 varieties of perennials. The Walnut Phone: 423-263-7232 Grove Methodist Church, built Cousin Jake Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com around 1855, is also on the Memorial Bluegrass Festival property. Free admission. Gem Theater Gem Theater 276 County Road 67 Etowah, TN Built in 1927 as a movie house, this Riceville, TN 37370 Phone: 423-263-7608 renovated theater now features Phone: 423-462-2666 musical and dramatic performances. May Tennessee Avenue Niota Depot Swift National Fly-In/Airshow Etowah, TN Built in 1853, this is the oldest Memorial Day Weekend Phone: 423-263-2228 or 423-263-7608 standing railroad depot in McMinn County Airport Tennessee. Louisville and Nashville Depot and Phone: 423-745-9547 Main Street Railroad Museum Niota, TN A restored 1906 Victorian depot November/December Phone: 423-568-2584 houses exhibits on life in a railroad Doll Show town and an art gallery. Free Sunshine Hollow Tennessee McMinn County Living Heritage admission. Features a daylily and hosta display Museum 727 Tennessee Avenue garden in the summer and pecan Athens, TN P.O. Box 390 fruitcakes in the winter. Phone: 423-745-0329 Etowah, TN 37331 198 County Road 52 Phone: 423-263-7840 or 423-263-2202 Athens, TN 37303

Phone: 800-669-2005 or 423-745-4289 Places Mayfield Dairy

Find out how this company bottles Agri-Culture Trail milk and makes ice cream. Free A brochure identifies sources for admission. local agricultural products and sites 4 Mayfield Lane of agricultural events. P.O. Box 310 P.O. Box 143 Athens, TN 37303 Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 800-362-9546 or 423-745-2151 Phone: 423-263-7232 Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com

Cherokee National Forest Hiwassee Ranger District 274 Highway 310 Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 423-263-5486 Fax: 423-263-1899

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 79 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Swift Air Museum Trew's General Store Visitor Information International headquarters, In business for over 100 years. museum, and parts department for Highway 163 Athens Area the 1940s Swift aircraft. Free Between Delano and Calhoun Chamber of Commerce admission. 13 North Jackson Street Woodlawn McMinn County Airport Athens, TN 37303 A Greek Revival house built County Road 552 Phone: 423-745-0334 around 1858, and used as a Union Phone: 423-745-9547 Fax: 423-745-0335 hospital during the Civil War. A Tennessee Wesleyan College Website: www.athenschamber.org Gallery smokehouse is also on the site. Housed in the Old College Building, Group tours available. Etowah Area which was constructed in 1850. 110 Keith Lane Chamber of Commerce 204 East College Street Athens, TN 37303 P.O. Box 458 Athens, TN 37303 Phone: 800-745-8123 or 423-745-8211 Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 423-263-2228 Phone: 423-745-7504

Tennessee Overhill Heritage Tourism Association 727 Tennessee Avenue P.O. Box 143 Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 423-263-7232 Fax: 423-263-1670 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com

MCNAIRY COUNTY - SELMER

June Jammin’ Jamboree Events Labor Day Weekend Cars for Kids May Bluegrass musicians from across Father's Day Weekend the country gather for a giant jam Bluegrass in the Campground Car and truck shows, parades, session. Attendees are encouraged to bring music, food. Proceeds are donated Selmer, TN their own instruments and to charity. Phone: 731-645-3428 participate. Selmer, TN Big Hill Pond State Park Phone: 731-645-6676 Summer in the Park

Phone: 731-645-7967 (see May) Log Roll and Raft Race Website: Run the log Paul Bunyan style or October www.state.tn.us/environment/ enter a raft in the race. parks/bighill/events.htm Fall Bluegrass Breakdown Phone: 731-645-7967 Big Hill Pond State Park Buford Pusser Festival Summer in the Park Phone: 731-645-7967 Memorial Day Weekend (see May) Website: Law Enforcement Awards, plus a www.state.tn.us/environment/ car show, talent contest, carnival, July

parks/bighill/events.htm music, and more. Free admission. Buford Pusser Park Summer in the Park

Adamsville, TN (see May)

Phone: 731-632-1401 or 731-632-1199 August

Summer in the Park Summer in the Park Memorial Day through Labor Day (see May) Hikes led by naturalists, aquatic studies, and botanical explorations. Broomcorn Festival Big Hill Pond State Park Features area folk artists and live Phone: 731-645-7967 music, from blues to bluegrass. Website: Selmer, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 731-645-4823 parks/bighill/events.htm

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 80 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Buford Pusser Sheriff's Office McNairy County Historical Museum Places This office features memorabilia The historical Ritz Theater houses Big Hill Pond State Park from the law career of this famous a School Room, a War Room, a Big Hill Pond was created in 1953 lawman. Healing Arts Room, and a Business when dirt was taken from a borrow Courthouse and Agriculture Room. pit to build a levee for a railroad. Selmer, TN 114 North 3rd Street Attractions in this park include a P.O. Box 957 Coon Creek Science Center boardwalk through the scenic Selmer, TN 38375 Coon Creek is a major North Dismal Swamp, a 70-foot tall Phone: 731-646-0018 or 731-645-8216 American fossil site. Guided fossil observation tower, and earthworks digging excursions are available for built by Union soldiers during the groups of 20 or more by Civil War. Visitor Information appointment. Expect an evolutionary 1435 John Howell Road perspective. Pocahontas, TN 38061 McNairy County Adamsville, TN Phone: 731-645-7967 Chamber of Commerce Mail: 3050 Central Website: 144 West Cypress Avenue Memphis, TN 38111 www.state.tn.us/environment/ P.O. Box 7 Phone: 731-320-6362 parks/bighill/ Selmer, TN 38375 Website: www.memphismuseums.org/ Phone: 731-645-6360 Buford Pusser Home and Museum creek.htm E-mail: [email protected] Sheriff Buford Pusser was the Gas Station Museum Website: www.centuryinter.net/mccc inspiration for the "Walking Tall" A collection of antique gas pumps, movies. His home contains See More on Scenic Highway 64 two cars, license plates, a phone memorabilia about his childhood Features historic sites, attractions, booth, and other memorabilia. and his work as sheriff. and events in southwestern Main Street 342 Pusser Street Tennessee. Free brochure. Adamsville, TN Hardin County Tourism P.O. Box 301 Adamsville, TN 38310 Hockaday Broom Museum and 507 Main Street Phone: 731-632-4080 or 731-632-1401 Gift Shop Savannah, TN 38372 E-mail: [email protected] The Martin family grows the Phone: 800-552-3866 broom corn they use to make brooms in the 1850s style. They own and operate this museum. Group tours and demonstrations are available by appointment. 2076 Highway 142 Selmer, TN 38375 Phone: 731-645-4823

MEIGS COUNTY - DECATUR

Cross Creek Farm Events Places An authentic log cabin bed and February Cherokee Memorial Park breakfast. Feed the sheep, meet the Many Cherokee men, women, and alpacas, and shop for garments and Cherokee Indian Heritage and children camped at this site during gifts made from alpaca fibers. Sandhill Crane Viewing Days their journey to Oklahoma on Phone: 423-334-9172 Learn about Cherokee Indians, and what is now known as the Trail of E-mail: [email protected] see thousands of Sandhill Cranes. Tears. A memorial to those Hiwassee Refuge WMA Free admission. families and an historic center are Birchwood, TN Phone: 931-484-9571 planned for this site. Also, the Phone: 423-334-5850 Blythe Ferry crossed the Meigs County Historical Museum Tennessee river here for 189 years. The Gothic building that houses

Decatur, TN the museum was built in 1880. Phone: 423-334-5850 Features early furniture from the area, historic photographs, and Chickamauga genealogical materials. Wildlife Management Area Decatur, TN Phone: 931-484-9571 Phone: 423-334-4424

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 81 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Trail of Tears Long Distance Trails Visitor Information National Historic Trail Group Office, Santa Fe In 1838 and 1839, thousands of National Park Service Meigs County Tourism Cherokees were forced to leave P.O. Box 728 P.O. Box 611 their homes in the southeastern Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Decatur, TN 37322 states and move to the territory Phone: 505-988-6888 Phone: 423-334-5496 or 423-334- that would become Oklahoma. E-mail: [email protected] 5850 Today highways that closely Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ follow the trail are marked with tearsnht.html official markers, and historic sites lie along the trail. Contact the National Park Service and the local Chamber of Commerce for specific information.

MONROE COUNTY - MADISONVILLE

December Cherokee National Forest Events This 1930s ranger station, the first Christmas at Fort Loudon Haru: A View of Spring Civilian Conservation Corps camp Fort Loudon State Historic Area Phone: 423-337-4245 in Tennessee, features historic Vonore, TN memorabilia and interpretation, Fall Phone: 423-884-6217 and visitor information. Free Fax: 423-884-2287 Autumn Gold Festival admission. Website: Tellico Ranger District Covered wagon rides, music, molasses www.state.tn.us/environment/ making, gold panning, and more. 250 Ranger Station Road parks/loudoun/events.htm Coker Creek Village Tellico Plains, TN 37385 Phone: 423-253-2520 Coker Creek, TN

Phone: 423-261-2242 Fax: 423-253-2804

Places September Coker Creek Crafts Gallery Agri-Culture Trail Traditional and contemporary arts Sequoyah Festival & Pow Wow Identifies sources for local and crafts, including white oak Weekend after Labor Day agricultural products and sites of baskets. Native American dancing, stickball, agricultural events. Free brochure. 206 Hot Water Road art, and storytelling. P.O. Box 143 Coker Creek, TN Sequoyah Birthplace Museum Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 423-261-2157 Vonore, TN Phone: 423-263-7232 Phone: 423-884-6246 Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Coker Creek Village This area was the center of Trade Faire Bentwood Farms Llamas Tennessee's gold-mining district in Costumed actors portray a 18th- A llama farm in a spring-fed the 1800s and a holding district for century bazaar with period hollow. Free admission. Cherokees before their forced entertainment, crafts, and food. 243 Ironsburg Road removal. Today this retreat center Also includes a battle reenactment. Tellico Plains, TN offers one-day and multi-day Fort Loudon State Historic Area Phone: 423-261-2500 activity packages for groups. Vonore, TN E-mail: [email protected] 12528 Highway 68 Phone: 423-884-6217 P.O. Box 98 Buck Bald Fax: 423-884-2287 Coker Creek, TN 37314 This bald mountain provides a view Website: Phone: 800-245-5428 or 423-261-2310 of three states. Free admission. www.state.tn.us/environment/ E-mail: [email protected] Highway 68 parks/loudon/events.htm Website: www.cokercreekvillage.com Coker Creek, TN October Phone: 800-245-5428 or 423-442-9147 Craighead Springs Llamas Day and longer hikes in the Japanese Quilt Show Cherohala Skyway Smokies with pack llamas. Phone: 423-337-4245 A National Scenic Byway. 369 Craighead Springs Road Highway 165 Madisonville, TN Phone: 423-442-9147 or 423-253-2520 Phone: 423-442-6756 Website: E-mail: [email protected] www.monroecounty.com/sky.html

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 82 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Fort Loudon State Historic Park Pheasant Fields Fish Rearing Pools Vonore Heritage Museum The British built a fort here in Produces brood trout. Houses artifacts and memorabilia 1756, and the fort has been FS #210 from the 1900s to the 1950s reconstructed. An interpretive Tellico Plains, TN provided by several local families. center features area history and Phone: 423-263-7232 Free admission. artifact displays. 611 Church Street 338 Fort Loudon Road Sequoyah Birthplace Museum Vonore, TN Vonore, TN 37885-9756 Features exhibits about Cherokee Phone: 423-884-6729 history and culture, and the life of Phone: 423-884-6217 Fax: 423-884-2287 Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee Visitor Information Website: written language. Owned and www.state.tn.us/environment/ operated by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Monroe County parks/loudoun/ Chamber of Commerce Highway 360 Furs to Factories Heritage Trail P.O. Box 69 P.O. Box 37 Self-guided auto tour to museums Vonore, TN 37885 Madisonville, TN 37354 Phone: 800-245-5428 and historic sites that highlight the Phone: 423-884-6246 industrial revolution in Website: southeastern Tennessee. Free Sweetwater Heritage Museum www.monroecountychamber.org brochure. Memorabilia and photographs. Corner of North and High Streets Monroe County Tourism Council P.O. Box 143 4765 Highway 68 Sweetwater, TN 37874 Etowah, TN 37331 Madisonville, TN 37354 Phone: 423-263-7232 Tellico Arts Center Phone: 800-245-5428 Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Regional art center with weekly Fax: 423-442-9016

Lost Sea classes and monthly events. Free E-mail: [email protected] Considered the largest admission. Website: www.monroecounty.com underground lake in the United 113 Scott Street Tellico Plains, TN Tennessee Overhill Heritage States, the Lost Sea offers Tourism Association Phone: 423-253-2253 spelunking by foot and by boat. P.O. Box 143 140 Lost Sea Road Tellico Lake 727 Tennessee Avenue Sweetwater, TN 37874 Wildlife Management Area Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 423-337-6616 Phone: 423-884-6767 Phone: 423-263-7232

Fax: 423-263-1670 Lucky Pine Herb Farm Tennessee Meiji Gakuin E-mail: [email protected] Free admission. Culture Enrichment Center Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com 155 Big Creek Cemetery Road Exhibits, classes, lectures, and

Madisonville, TN enrichment programs help bridge

Phone: 423-442-1221 the gap between the Japanese and

Museum from the Past American cultures. Over 1,000 items in the main 1314 Peachtree Street building, plus a moonshine still, Sweetwater, TN 37874 Phone: 423-337-4245 blacksmith shop, and gristmill. 1688 Old Tellico Highway Madisonville, TN Phone: 423-442-4833

MONTGOMERY COUNTY - CLARKSVILLE

February April Events Celebration of Quilts Mid-South Jazz Festival Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Clarksville, TN Local musicians and professional May through October Phone: 931-551-3650 performers. Free admission. Austin Peay State University Beachhaven Vineyards and Winery March Clarksville, TN Clarksville, TN Old Time Fiddlers' Championship Phone: 931-648-7876 Phone: 931-645-8867 Artists from around the country. Clarksville, TN Phone: 931-647-3855

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 83 © 2003 The Notgrass Company May "As the River Flows" Dunbar Cave State Natural Area River Center Exhibit Dunbar Cave is the most prominent Main Street MusicFest A mural map depicts the settlement among many caves and sinkholes in Music, entertainment, artist exhibits, of Clarksville, and display panels this area. Humans have enjoyed its and food. Free admission. show the history of the constant water supply and natural Clarksville, TN Cumberland River from ancient air conditioning for centuries. Phone: 931-551-9737 times to the present. Square dances, radio shows, and big Spring Homecoming McGregor Park band concerts have been held in the Pioneer and children's activities. Riverside Drive spacious mouth of the cave. Contact Historic Collinsville Clarksville, TN the park for information on special Southside, TN 931-645-7476 hikes and cave visits.

Phone: 931-648-9141 401 Old Dunbar Cave Road

Barnett's Woods State Natural Area Clarksville, TN 37043 September Phone: 931-648-5526 Center of Excellence Riverfest for the Creative Arts Website: Weekend after Labor Day Promotes a variety of art exhibitions, www.state.tn.us/environment/ poetry readings, and musical, dance, parks/dunbar/ Local, regional, and national entertainment, plus arts and crafts, and theatrical performances. Free Emerald Hill fine art exhibits, and activities on admission to many events. Once the home of Gustavas A. the river. 8th and Marion Streets Henry, a Confederate Senator and Cumberland RiverWalk and Clarksville, TN the "Eagle Orator of Tennessee," McGregor Park Phone: 931-221-7876 or 931-648-7876 this mansion began as a farmhouse Clarksville, TN E-mail: [email protected] in the 1820s. It has undergone two Phone: 931-645-7476 Clarksville-Montgomery major additions, and it contains E-mail: County Museum many original furnishings. Free [email protected] An 1898 post office houses exhibits admission. Website: www.clarksvilleriverfest.com on area history, culture, and art. 751 North 2nd Street Clarksville, TN Fall Includes hands-on activities, special displays, and a bronze statute of Phone: 931-648-7979 Fall Pilgrimage Olympic gold medallist and E-mail: [email protected] Cider pressing, blacksmithing, Clarksville native Wilma Rudolph. Fort Defiance wood carving, quilting, spinning, 200 South 2nd Street weaving, chair making, children's A Civil War earthen fortification P.O. Box 383 overlooking the Cumberland and games, and hay rides, plus a Civil Clarksville, TN 37041-0383 War encampment. Red Rivers. Free admission. Phone: 931-648-5780 or 931-553-5101 Walker Street Historic Collinsville Southside, TN Collinsville New Providence Area Phone: 931-648-5780 A living history museum featuring Phone: 931-648-9141 ten vintage 1800s-style buildings Oktoberfest Fort Campbell Military Reservation furnished in period style with This military base is home to the German food, music, and dancing. textiles and household articles. Clarksville, TN 101st Air Assault Division. Various 4711 Weakley Road aircraft, military equipment, and Phone: 931-358-5119 Southside, TN 37171 monuments are displayed. The Don Phone: 931-648-9141 F. Pratt Museum features exhibits Fax: 931-648-9831 about the history of the "Screaming Website: www.historiccollinsville.com Eagles" and other military divisions from World War II to Cumberland RiverWalk Desert Storm. Free admission. Includes the Rotary International Avenue of Flags and recreational 5702 Tennessee Avenue Fort Campbell, KY Places and festival areas. Free admission. Riverside Drive Phone: 270-798-3215 Apple Hollow Farm Clarksville, TN E-mail: This farm grows herbs, flowers, Phone: 931-645-7476 [email protected] and fruit and vegetables. It has a Website: children's herb garden and an Downtown Clarksville www.campbell.army.mil/pratt/ heirloom garden with over 100 Historic District varieties of roses. Free admission. As one of the oldest communities in 755 North Woodson Road Tennessee, Clarksville features Clarksville, TN 37040 many historic buildings. A walking tour map is available. Phone: 931-358-9269 Phone: 931-647-2331 or 931-648-5780 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 84 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Mabel Larson Art Gallery Roxy Regional Theatre Trail of Tears Harned Hall, the oldest building on Housed in a 1947 modern art National Historic Trail campus, houses this collection of theatre, the Roxy features In 1838 and 1839, thousands of art. Free admission. professional and community Cherokees were forced to leave Austin Peay State University productions. their homes in the southeastern College Street 100 Franklin Street states and move to the territory P.O. Box 4677 Clarksville, TN 37040 that would become Oklahoma. Clarksville, TN 37044 Phone: 931-645-7699 Today highways that closely follow Phone: 931-648-7011 or 931-648-7333 E-mail: [email protected] the trail are marked with official markers, and historic sites lie along Haynes Bottom Sango Mills the trail. Contact the National Park Wildlife Management Area A working farm featuring Service and the local Chamber of Phone: 615-781-6622 vegetables, apples, and sorghum. Commerce for specific information. L & N Train Station Visitors can watch sorghum Long Distance Trails Originally built in 1890. Features cooking and cornmeal grinding. Group Office, Santa Fe train memorabilia, a diesel engine, Free admission. National Park Service and an old caboose. Free 154 Towes Lane P.O. Box 728 admission. Sango, TN Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Phone: 931-358-2637 Commerce and 10th Streets Phone: 505-988-6888 Clarksville, TN Sevier Station E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-553-2486 Valentine Sevier built this stone- Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/

block house in 1792. Free tearsnht.html Montgomery County Courthouse Built in a Victorian style in the late admission. Walker Street 1800s. Visitor Information Commerce and 2nd Streets New Providence Area

Clarksville, TN Phone: 931-648-5780 Clarksville-Montgomery County

Tourism Commission Smith-Trahern Mansion Overcast Pottery 180 Holiday Road Christopher Smith, a wealthy One of the largest hand-turned P.O. Box 883 tobacconist, built this house in production potteries in the Clarksville, TN 37040 1858. southeast. Tours available. Phone: 800-530-2487 or 931-648-0001 First and McClure Streets 1865 Ashland City Road Fax: 931-645-1574 Clarksville, TN Clarksville, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-648-9998 Phone: 931-647-3123 Website: www.clarksville.tn.us St. Peter A.M.E. Church Post House Tourist Information Center Founded in 1866 and remodeled in This historic gateway between 180 Holiday Drive 1890. Kentucky and Tennessee is used for Clarksville, TN 37040 transit passenger waiting and is also 518 Franklin Street Phone: 931-553-8467 a full-service branch of the U.S. Clarksville, TN Postal Service. Free admission. Phone: 931-647-4703 Website: 3190 Fort Campbell Boulevard The City of Clarksville Trahern Gallery Clarksville, TN www.cityofclarksville.com Rotating exhibits of regional and Phone: 931-431-5605 international artists. Free Poston Building admission. Built in 1842, this building is one of Austin Peay State University several in downtown Clarksville 8th and Henry Streets that still features advertising from P.O. Box 4677 the 1870s. Clarksville, TN 37044 Public Square Phone: 931-648-7333 or 931-648- Clarksville, TN 7011 Queen of Clarksville Riverboat Take a paddlewheel cruise down the Cumberland River. McGregor Park Riverside Drive Clarksville, TN Phone: 931-647-5500

Cumberland Springs Tullahoma Campaign Driving Tour Events Wildlife Management Area Between June 23 and July 4 of April Phone: 615-781-6622 1863, Union forces battled the Confederates back toward Spotted Horse Show Goodwin's General Museum Chattanooga. This 130-mile Phone: 931-759-4111 Lynchburg, TN driving tour takes you to several

May Ledford Mill & Museum sites in Coffee, Bedford, Franklin, This 1884 gristmill features a and Grundy counties that relate to Spring in the Hollow museum, gift shop, antiques, and a the conflict. The tour begins in Phone: 931-759-4111 bed & breakfast. Beech Grove, Coffee County, and ends in Monteagle, Grundy June Lynchburg, TN Phone: 931-455-2546 County. Free brochure. Frontier Days Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Fourth Saturday The Lynchburg Pottery & E-mail: [email protected] Lynchburg, TN Gift Gallery Website: www.cyber-time.com/ Phone: 931-759-4111 Frank Inman creates and displays tnbkrds/default.htm his pottery, along with work by July other local artists. Visitor Information

Downtown Square Walking Horse Show Lynchburg, TN Metropolitan Moore County/ Phone: 931-759-4111 Phone: 931-759-5205 Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce

August P.O. Box 421 Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Lynchburg, TN 37352 Spotted Horse Show Built in 1812. Reservations Phone: 931-759-4111 Phone: 931-759-4111 required for a family style lunch. Lynchburg, TN Tennessee's Backroads Heritage December Phone: 931-759-7394 An organization composed of

Christmas in Lynchburg Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, and Moore County Courthouse Moore Counties, and the Phone: 931-759-4111 This courthouse was built in 1885 Cumberland Mountain area with bricks made by the people in spreading from Monteagle to Places Lynchburg. On the front lawn stands Beersheba Springs. a 1927 monument to the Confederate 300 South Jackson Street C & R Buggy Tours soldiers of Moore county. Tullahoma, TN 37388 Tour historic Lynchburg in an old Lynchburg, TN Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 fashioned buggy. Moore County Historic Jail Museum E-mail: [email protected] or Phone: 931-438-8875 or 931-433-8461 Built in 1872, this jail now features [email protected] Country By Nature Lynchburg memorabilia. Website: www.cyber-time.com/ Watercolor art and demonstrations Courthouse Square tnbkrds/default.htm by Ann Smotherman. Free Lynchburg, TN admission. Phone: 931-759-7763 Downtown Square Lynchburg, TN Phone: 931-759-6444

MORGAN COUNTY - WARTBURG

May Festival of British and Events Appalachian Culture Bluegrass & Gospel Music April Music and dancing, traditional arts Festival and crafts demonstrations, Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Frozen Head State Park storytelling, tours, and food. Frozen Head State Park Wartburg, TN Rugby, TN Wartburg, TN Phone: 423-346-3318 Phone: 423-628-2441 Phone: 423-346-3318 Website: Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/frzhead/events.htm parks/frzhead/events.htm Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 86 © 2003 The Notgrass Company July Lone Mountain State Forest Places Over thirteen miles of trails. Civilian Conservation Corps Big South Fork National River and 302 Clayton Howard Road Reunion Recreation Area Wartburg, TN 37887 The members of Company 1463. 4564 Leatherwood Road Phone: 423-346-6655 Frozen Head State Park Oneida, TN 37841 Wartburg, TN Mount Roosevelt State Forest and Phone: 423-569-9778 Phone: 423-346-3318 Wildlife Management Area Website: www.nps.gov/biso/ Website: Phone: 931-484-9571 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Catoosa Wildlife Management Area Obed National Wild and parks/frzhead/events.htm Catoosa Road Scenic River Wartburg, TN September Whitewater boating, hiking, and Phone: 931-456-2479 rock climbing and repelling. The Historic Rugby Pilgrimage Frozen Head State Park & Visitor Center in Wartburg Rugby, TN Natural Area contains natural and cultural Phone: 423-628-2441 This park is named for the fact that history exhibits. Free admission. November/December in winter, area mountains are often 208 North Maiden capped with snow or ice while the P.O. Box 429 Christmas in the Mountains valleys remain clear. Wartburg, TN 37887 First consecutive Thursday and 964 Flat Fork Road Phone: 423-346-6294 Friday after Thanksgiving Wartburg, TN 37887 Website: www.nps.gov/obed/ Living nativity scenes, choral Phone: 423-346-3318 music, and more. Fax: 423-346-6629 Frozen Head State Park Website: Visitor Information Wartburg, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ Morgan County Executive Phone: 423-346-3318 parks/frzhead/ Website: P.O. Box 387 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Historic Rugby Wartburg, TN 37887 parks/frzhead/events.htm British author, statesman, and Phone: 423-346-6288 social reformer Thomas Hughes Christmas at Historic Rugby established this community in Cumberlands of Tennessee Classical musicians, carolers, actors 1880. More than 20 of its original Heritage Trail portraying Rugby settlers, and buildings remain. P.O. Box 8 more. State Highway 52 Rugby, TN 37733 Rugby, TN P.O. Box 8 Phone: 423-628-2441 Phone: 423-628-2441 Rugby, TN 37733 Website: www.cumberlands.org Phone: 423-628-2441 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.historicrugby.org

OBION COUNTY - UNION CITY

October Dixie Gun Works Events A combination gun museum, antique Reelfoot Arts and Crafts Festival April car museum, and sales office. Guns 1st weekend of October from the 18th and 19th centuries, Ridgemont Spring Heritage Days Phone: 731-253-7276 and cars from the 20th, plus farm Obion County Fairgrounds Waterfowl Festival engines, steam engines, and whistles. Phone: 731-885-5171 U.S. Highway 51 South Duck and goose calling contests, Fall antique shows, and more. P.O. Box 130 Phone: 731-253-9652 Union City, TN 38261 Fall Fest Celebration Phone: 731-885-0700

Phone: 731-885-0211 Places Flippen's Hillbilly Barn September A fruit orchard featuring Flippen's C. M. Gooch fried pies, an antique shop, and a Pontotoc Festival Wildlife Management Area country store. South Fulton, TN/Fulton, KY Phone: 731-49-5587 3734 West Shawtown Road Phone: 502-472-9000 Troy, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 87 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Hop-In Refuge Obion River Visitor Information Wildlife Management Area Wildlife Management Area Phone: 731-749-5587 Phone: 731-749-5587 Obion County Chamber of Commerce Masquerade Theatre Reelfoot Lake State Park 214 East Church Street This restored 1927 building Reelfoot Lake spreads over 25,000 P.O. Box 70 features live theatrical acres and provides a home for Union City, TN 38281 performances. numerous birds and other wildlife. Phone: 731-885-0211 118 South First Street (See Lake county for park events.) Fax: 731-885-7155 Union City, TN Route 1, Box 2345 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 731-885-2300 Tiptonville, TN 38079-9799 Website: E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 800-250-8617 or 731-253-7756 www.obioncounty.com/chamber Website: Monument of Unknown www.state.tn.us/environment/ Reelfoot Lake Tourist Council Confederate Dead parks/reelfoot/ 6622 West Highway 22 In 1869 this statue became the first P.O. Box 9 - Dept. KV such monument erected by a group Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge Hornbeak, TN 38254 to honor unknown Confederate dead. 4343 Highway 157 Phone: 731-538-2666 Kiwanis Park Union City, TN 38261 E-mail: [email protected] East Church Street Phone: 731-538-2481 or 731-287-0650 Union City, TN Fax: 731-286-0468 The Great River Road E-mail: [email protected] Promotes historic sites and attractions Obion County Museum Website: southeast.fws.gov/reelfoot/ along the Mississippi from Canada to A recreated "Main Street" is setup the Gulf of Mexico. Free brochure. inside the museum, and the grounds Reelfoot Wildlife Management Area Mississippi River Parkway include a log cabin, a one-room Phone: 731-253-7343 Commission school, and more. Free admission. P.O. Box 59159 1004 Edwards Street Minneapolis, MN 55459-8207 Union City, TN 38261 Phone: 612-212-2560 Phone: 731-885-6774 or 731-885-1539 E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.mississippi-river.com

Website: Obion County, Tennessee www.obioncounty.com

OVERTON COUNTY - LIVINGSTON

September Court Square Emporium Events Arts and crafts exhibits and classes. National Rolley Hole July 108 North Court Square Marble Tournament Livingston, TN Pioneer Days Standing Stone State Park Phone: 931-823-6741 Livingston, TN Hilham, TN Phone: 931-823-6347 Dale Hollow Lake August Website: Fishing and water recreation.

Antique Car Show www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 931-243-3136

Hot Rod and antique autos with parks/standstn/events.htm Deep Valley Trout Farm music, prizes, and more. Features rainbow trout fishing on a Standing Stone State Park Places terraced, wooded mountainside. Hilham, TN 767 Hunter Cove Road Phone: 931-823-6347 Alpine Christ Church Presbyterian Allons, TN Website: and School Phone: 931-823-6053 www.state.tn.us/environment/ These historic stone structures still parks/standstn/events.htm serve their community. Alpine, TN

Alpine Mountain Wildlife Management Area Phone: 931-484-9571

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 88 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Governor A.H. Roberts Law Office Overton County Courthouse Visitor Information Governor A.H. Roberts, the only A brick, Federal-style courthouse Tennessee Governor from the with a World War I cannon and Livingston-Overton County Upper Cumberland, was serving veterans memorials outside. Chamber of Commerce when the 19th Amendment to the Livingston, TN 310 McHenry Circle U.S. Constitution was passed, P.O. Box 354 Standing Stone State Park which gave women the right to Livingston, TN 38570 1674 Standing Stone Park Highway vote. Open by appointment. Phone: 931-823-6421 McKinley Street Hilham, TN 38568-6610 Livingston, TN Phone: 931-823-6347 Upper Cumberland Phone: 931-823-5782 Website: Tourism Association www.state.tn.us/environment/ P.O. Box 2411 Jackson Swamp parks/standstn/ Cookeville, TN 38502 Wildlife Management Area Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Standing Stone Phone: 931-484-9571 Wildlife Management Area Phone: 931-484-9571

PERRY COUNTY - LINDEN

Cedar Grove Iron Furnace Trail of Tears National Historic Events Built around 1832, this furnace at Trail April one time produced 40 tons of pig In 1838 and 1839, thousands of iron each week. Cherokees were forced to leave Wildflowers Nature Hike Phone: 931-589-2216 their homes in the southeastern Mousetail Landing State Park states and move to the territory Heath's Canoe Rental Linden, TN that would become Oklahoma. Highway 13 Phone: 731-847-0841 Today highways that closely follow Lobelville, TN 37097 Website: the trail are marked with official www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 931-593-2306 or 931-593-2345 markers, and historic sites lie along parks/mouse/events.htm Linden the trail. Contact the National Park

June This town contains several historic Service and the local Chamber of buildings, including the 1928-29 Commerce for specific information. Fishing Day Rodeo County Courthouse. Long Distance Trails Free for children and adults. Prizes Phone: 931-589-2736 Group Office, Santa Fe awarded. National Park Service Lobelville Mousetail Landing State Park P.O. Box 728 Established in 1854, this community Linden, TN Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 was named for a French immigrant, Phone: 731-847-0841 Phone: 505-988-6888 Henry DeLobel. His name is carved Website: E-mail: [email protected] in a cave near the town. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Phone: 931-593-2285 parks/mouse/events.htm tearsnht.html Mousetail Landing State Park

Tradition says that Mousetail Landing received its name during the Visitor Information Places 1860s when a local tannery caught Perry County Amish and Mennonite Communities fire and a large number of mice fled Chamber of Commerce Food products and hand-crafted the burning building. The park P.O. Box 908 items for sale. museum contains nature displays, Linden, TN 37096 Information Phone: 931-589-2216 and Indian and other area artifacts. Route 3 Box 280B Phone: 931-589-2455 Bromley Hotel Linden, TN 37096 Perry County Executive Built around 1910 as a doctor's Phone: 731-847-0841 Phone: 931-589-2216 residence and office, this structure Fax: 731-847-0771 became a hotel and medical clinic. Website: Flatwoods, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 931-589-5692 parks/mouse/

Buffalo Canoe River Rental Flatwoods, TN Phone: 931-589-2755

PICKETT COUNTY - BYRDSTOWN

Big South Fork National River and Dale Hollow Lake Events Recreation Area Fishing and water recreation. August 4564 Leatherwood Road Phone: 931-243-3136 Oneida, TN 37841 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Phone: 423-569-9778 Pickett State Park and Forest Outdoor Sale 4605 Pickett Park Highway Website: www.nps.gov/biso/ Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 Jamestown, TN 38556-4141 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-879-5821 Website: Website: www.jamestowntn.org/worlds.htm www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/pickett/ October Pickett Wildlife Management Area Cordell Hull Folk Festival Phone: 931-484-9571 Gospel and bluegrass music, storytelling, crafts, demonstrations Twin Arches State Natural Area of traditional skills, and more. Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum Visitor Information State Park State Park Cordell Hull worked as a lawyer, U.S. Byrdstown, TN Byrdstown/Pickett County Phone: 931-864-3247 Congressman, and Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt. This park Chamber of Commerce Website: Courthouse Square www.state.tn.us/environment/ contains the original log cabin where he was born and an activities center. The P.O. Box 447 parks/cordell/events.htm Byrdstown, TN 38549 museum features documents and artifacts, including Hull's Nobel Peace Phone: 931-864-7195 E-mail: [email protected] Places Prize Medal. 1300 Cordell Hull Memorial Drive Website: www.dalehollow.com Affair at Travisville Site Byrdstown, TN 38549 Cumberlands of Tennessee The first military action of the Civil Phone: 931-864-3247 Heritage Trail War in Tennessee took place here on Fax: 931-864-6389 P.O. Box 8 September 29, 1861, when Union E-mail: [email protected] Rugby, TN 37733 cavalry attacked a Confederate Website: Phone: 423-628-2441 encampment. The Confederates lost www.state.tn.us/environment/ Website: www.cumberlands.org four men, one of whom is buried in parks/cordell/ the Travisville cemetery. Upper Cumberland Travisville United Methodist Tourism Association Church P.O. Box 2411 Caney Creek Road Cookeville, TN 38502 Phone: 931-864-7195 Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088

POLK COUNTY - BENTON

May June Events Ocoee Rodeo Kids Fishing Day April Kayakers and canoeist compete in Free fishing for children 12 and Ramp Tramp Festival their sports. under. Fourth weekend Ocoee Whitewater Center Hiwassee River State Park Travel to Big Frog Mountain to Copperhill, TN Delano, TN dig ramps, and enjoy country music Phone: 423-263-0050 Phone: 423-263-0050 while you eat them. Fax: 423-263-0103 Fax: 423-263-0103 Camp McCroy Website: Website: Greasy Creek, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 423-338-4503 parks/hiwassee/ parks/hiwassee/

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 90 © 2003 The Notgrass Company July Fort Marr Ocoee Scenic Byway Originally built as a defense against Winds past historic sites along the Miner's Homecoming Cherokee attacks, the Americans Ocoee River and through the Ducktown, TN later used it to confine the Cherokee National Forest. Phone: 423-496-9000 or 423-496-5778 Cherokees before they were sent Benton, TN October west on the Trail of Tears. Free Phone: 423-338-5201 admission. Chilhowee Mountain Harvest U.S. Highway 411 North Ocoee Inn Rafting, Inc. Festival Benton, TN Whitewater rafting. Route 1, Box 347 Benton, TN Phone: 423-263-0050 Phone: 423-338-5717 Benton, TN 37307 Furs to Factories Heritage Trail Phone: 800-272-7238 or 423-338-2064

Self-guided auto tour to museums Ocoee Mist Places and historic sites that highlight the industrial revolution in A working farm that offers llama hikes. Route 1, Box 377 Adventures Unlimited southeastern Tennessee. Parkersville Road Whitewater rafting, horseback P.O. Box 143 Benton, TN 37307 riding, and more. Etowah, TN 37331 Phone: 800-208-9008, PIN 7197 or Route 1, Box 540 Phone: 423-263-7232 423-338-6818 Ocoee, TN 37361 Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Fax: 423-338-6710 Phone: 800-662-0667 Hiwassee River State Park & E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: Ocoee River Website: www.ocoee-mist.com/ [email protected] Spring Creek Road Website: P.O. Box 5 Ocoee Outdoors www.adventuresunlimited.net Delano, TN 37325 Whitewater rafting, horseback riding, live music on weekends, and Agri-Culture Trail Phone: 423-263-0050 more. A brochure identifies sources for Fax: 423-263-0103 P.O. Box 72 local agricultural products and sites Website: Ocoee, TN 37361 of agricultural events. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 800-533-7767 P.O. Box 143 parks/hiwassee/ Website: www.ocoee-outdoors.com Etowah, TN 37331 John Muir Trail Phone: 423-263-7232 This 18.8 mile trail between Ocoee Whitewater Center Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Reliance and Farner highlights the Site of 1996 Olympic whitewater events. Includes the Old Copper Cherokee National Forest diverse terrain of the Cherokee Road Historic Trail, built by Ocoee Ranger District National Forest. Cherokee laborers in 1878 for the Route 1, Box 348D Phone: 423-263-7232 transportation of copper ore. Benton, TN 37307 Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Route 1, Box 285 Phone: 423-338-5201 Nancy Ward Gravesite Highway 64 West Fax: 423-338-6577 Nancy Ward was a Cherokee Copperhill, TN 37317 Cherokee Rafting woman who worked for peace Phone: 423-496-5197 Whitewater rafting. between her people and the Fax: 423-496-1515 P.O. Box 111 European settlers. Her people Website: www.r8web.com/ocoee/ Ocoee, TN 37361 called her "Beloved Woman," the Outdoor Adventure Rafting Phone: 800-451-7238 or 423-338-5124 highest honor they gave to women. She is buried with her son and Whitewater rafting, kayaking, Ducktown Basin Museum brother. Free admission. horseback riding, climbing and Exhibits depict the mining heritage U.S. Highway 411 North rappelling, and more. of the Copper Basin, which Benton, TN P.O. Box 109-C flourished from 1850 to 1987. The Phone: 423-338-5961 Ocoee, TN 37361 museum offers seasonal tours to the Phone: 800-627-7636 E-mail: [email protected] Burra Burra Mine Shops and Website: www.raft.com Change House. Nantahala Outdoor Center

Highway 68 Whitewater rafting.

P.O. Box 458 Route 1, Box 222 Ducktown, TN 37326 Ocoee, TN 37361 Phone: 423-496-5778 Phone: 800-232-7238 or 423-338-5901

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 91 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Reliance Tennessee Stables Polk County A farming community with turn-of- Guided trail rides. Chamber of Commerce the-century buildings. Webb Highway 64 P.O. Box 560 Brothers Store, a country general Ocoee, TN Benton, TN 37307 store open since 1936, includes a Phone: 800-726-2427 or 423-338-4325 Phone: 800-633-7655 or 423-338-5040 memorabilia display. Free Website: www.polkcotn.com admission. William L. Davenport Refuge Highway 30 State Natural Area Tennessee Overhill Heritage Tourism Association Reliance, TN P.O. Box 143 Phone: 423-263-7232 Visitor Information 727 Tennessee Avenue Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Copper Basin Etowah, TN 37331 Southeastern Expeditions Chamber of Commerce Phone: 423-263-7232 Whitewater rafting on the Ocoee. P.O. Box 948 Fax: 423-263-1670 50 Executive Park, Suite 5016 134 Main Street E-mail: [email protected] Atlanta, GA 30329 Ducktown, TN 37326 Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com Phone: 800-868-7238 or 404-329-0433 Phone: 423-496-9000 Fax: 404-634-4946 E-mail: E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.southeasternraft.com www.chamber-copperbasin.org

PUTNAM COUNTY - COOKEVILLE

October Bee Rock Events Look out on the Calfkiller River Brown Bag Lunch Concerts May valley at a place where the Indians Every Friday once gathered honey. Located on Bluegrass and Crafts Festival Cookeville, TN private property, but open to the Cookeville, TN public during daylight hours. Great Cherokee Pilgrimage June Second Saturday view. No guard rails, so be careful. Members of the Cherokee Nation of Go west from Monterey on Highway Poppy Festival Oklahoma travel to Monterey's 70N and turn left at the signs to the Baxter, TN Whittaker Park, site of an ancient Garden Inn; the path to Bee Rock is to the right of the Inn. September Indian worship grounds. Their commemorative ceremony of the Monterey, TN Upper Cumberland forced marches of the Cherokees Bryan Fine Arts Center Quilt Festival from Georgia to Oklahoma in Concerts and art exhibits by local Antique and new quilt collections, 1838-39 includes laying a corn and national artists. Home of the plus displays of quilting materials. wreath on the Standing Stone. Bryan Symphony Orchestra. Free Algood, TN Monterey, TN admission. Phone: 931-526-7941 Living Nativity Tennessee Tech University Fall Fun Fest December North Dixie Avenue Live music, arts & crafts, children's First Christian Church Cookeville, TN activities, a car show, and Cookeville, TN Phone: 931-372-3161 entertainment. Free admission. Phone: 931-526-4241 Website: Cookeville, TN www.tntech.edu/www/acad/music/

Phone: 931-528-4612 Places Burgess Falls State Natural Park Middle Tennessee Features three progressively larger Antique Tractor Show Algood United Methodist waterfalls. Free admission. Old engines, tractors, cars, trucks, Church Highway 135 and other farm equipment. Built in 1899, this small white 4000 Burgess Falls Drive Shipley Farm and Hyder-Burks church has stained glass windows Sparta, TN 38583-8456 Pavilion and a bell tower. Phone: 931-432-5312 Cookeville, TN Main Street Website: Phone: 931-372-6967 Algood, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/

parks/burgess/

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 92 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cane Creek Regional Park Cookeville Drama Center Wilson's North American Fishing, hiking, biking, and Features theatrical and musical Wildlife Museum recreation areas. productions. This museum features stuffed Cane Creek Camp Road 10 East Broad Street animals in their recreated habitats. Cookeville, TN Cookeville, TN 914 North Chestnut Phone: 931-526-9591 Phone: 931-528-1313 Monterey, TN

Phone: 931-839-3230 Circle K Horse Pavilion Cumberland Cove

Guided horse rides. Fishing and hiking trails and other 4775 Bohannon Lane recreation. Free admission. Visitor Information Cookeville, TN 38506 16939 Highway 70 North

Phone: 931-528-2287 Monterey, TN Cookeville Area-Putnam County E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-839-2926 Chamber of Commerce

City Lake Natural Area Hidden Hollow 302 South Jefferson Avenue This park borders on Old City This park features waterfalls, lakes, Cookeville, TN 38501 Cave. Visitors can hike to a canals, bridges, and a millhouse Phone: 800-264-5541 or 931-526-2211 waterfall overlook, fish in the lake, with a water wheel. Visitors can Fax: 931-526-4023 and explore the preserved water picnic, fish, play horseshoes, enjoy a E-mail: [email protected] treatment buildings from the small zoo, and hike. Website: 1920s. Free admission. Hidden Hollow Road www.cookeville.com/chamber/

Bridgeway Road Cookeville, TN Monterey City Hall

Cookeville, TN Phone: 931-526-4038 Phone: 931-839-2323 or 931-839-3770

Phone: 931-526-9591 Silver Point Gallery Upper Cumberland Cookeville Arts Center American contemporary and Tourism Association Monthly exhibits in various media. traditional arts and crafts. Free P.O. Box 2411 Free admission. admission. Cookeville, TN 38502 186 South Walnut Avenue Highway 56 South Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Cookeville, TN Silver Point, TN Phone: 931-526-2424 Phone: 931-858-3269 Websites: Cookeville, Tennessee Cookeville Depot Museum The Standing Stone www.cookeville.com This Tennessee Central Railroad Early travelers and settlers found a depot was built in 1909. It now dog-shaped rock on the western The City of Cookeville features railway artifacts, old edge of the Cumberland Plateau. www.ci.cookeville.tn.us photographs, two cabooses, and Indians believed that the Great other temporary exhibits. Free Spirit had placed it there. Until admission. 1805 the stone was a boundary Broad and Cedar Streets marker for the Indian Treaty of P.O. Box 998 1785 with the Cherokee nation. Cookeville, TN 38503-0998 This is a remnant of that stone. Phone: 931-528-8570 or 931-526-9591 Free admission Monterey City Park Monterey, TN Phone: 931-839-2323

RHEA COUNTY - DAYTON

July September Events Scopes Trial Play and Festival May Labor Day Fall Festival A play based on the trial transcript Music, entertainment, and food. Tennessee Strawberry Festival is performed in the courtroom Dayton, TN Crafts, food, live entertainment, where the trial took place. Phone: 423-775-0821 and more. Free admission. Dayton, TN Dayton, TN Phone: 423-775-7500 or 423-775-7206 December

Phone: 423-775-0361 Christmas at the Courthouse Spring City Car Show and Craft Fair Crafts, entertainment, and activities. Spring City, TN Dayton, TN Phone: 423-365-5210 Phone: 423-775-0361

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 93 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Laurel-Snow Pocket Wilderness Trail of Tears Places Trails lead to the two waterfalls National Historic Trail Broyles Darwin House that give this area its name. In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Built in 1860. Walnut Grove Road Cherokees were forced to leave Phone: 423-775-4044 Dayton, TN their homes in the southeastern Phone: 423-775-6171 states and move to the territory Chickamauga and Watts Bar Lake Website: that would become Oklahoma. Boating, fishing, and hiking. www.bowater.com/paper.html Today highways that closely follow Highway 27 the trail are marked with official Dayton, TN Magnolia House markers, and historic sites lie along Phone: 423-775-6171 Victorian home of Walter Thomison. the trail. Contact the National Park Phone: 423-775-9288 Chickamauga Service and the local Chamber of Wildlife Management Area Piney River State Natural Area Commerce for specific information. Phone: 931-484-9571 Waterfalls, rock formations, gorges, Long Distance Trails and bridges, including a 100-foot Group Office, Santa Fe Curly Fox Museum suspension bridge. Free admission. National Park Service Arnim Leroy "Curly" Fox was a Shut-In Gap Road P.O. Box 728 ten-time champion fiddler and a Spring City, TN Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 performer on the Grand Ole Opry Phone: 423-336-7424 Phone: 505-988-6888 with his wife, Texas Ruby. This Website: E-mail: [email protected] restored homeplace contains a www.bowater.com/paper.html Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ museum about their career. tearsnht.html 326 Fox Street Rhea County Courthouse Graysville, TN and Museum Watts Bar Dam and Phone: 423-775-6171 Site of the 1925 Scopes Trial. The Energy Connection museum contains exhibits, photos, Hiking, fishing, and more, plus the and news clippings about the trial Energy Education Visitors Center. as well as other local history Highway 68 information. Free admission. Spring City, TN 1475 Market Street, Room 103 Phone: 423-365-3153 or 423-775-6171

Dayton, TN 37321 Phone: 423-775-7801 Visitor Information Scopes Trial Sites Tour Self-guided tour of 24 sites related to Dayton Chamber of Commerce the Scopes Trial. Free brochure. 107 Main Street 107 Main Street Dayton, TN 37321 Dayton, TN 37321 Phone: 423-775-0361 Phone: 423-775-0361 Dayton/Rhea County Spring City Depot Economic and Tourism Council Built in 1908. 107 Main Street Spring City, TN P.O. Box 634 Dayton, TN 37321 Stinging Fork Pocket Wilderness Phone: 888-238-3263, PIN 1318 or Features forests, rock formations, 423-775-6171 gorges, and waterfalls, including Fax: 423-570-0105

Stinging Fork Falls on Stinging Website: www.rheacounty.com Eldridge Art Gallery Fork Creek. Free admission. Shut-In Gap Road Rhea County Features the work of Rhea County Tourism Development Council painter Lonnie R. Eldridge, who Spring City, TN Phone: 423-775-6171 P.O. Box 1069 specializes in landscapes and Spring City, TN 37381 landmarks of Tennessee and Website: Phone: 800-884-7432 www.bowater.com/paper.html surrounding areas. Free admission.

726 West Jackson Avenue Tennessee Valley Theatre Spring City Chamber of Commerce Spring City, TN A community theatre presenting 384 Front Street Phone: 423-365-2170 dramatic and musical productions. P.O. Box 335

184 West Jackson Avenue Spring City, TN 37381 Hiwassee Refuge Phone: 423-365-5210 Wildlife Management Area P.O. Box 81 Phone: 931-484-9571 Spring City, TN 37381 Phone: 423-365-4836

Living History Days Events Places (see May) February Bacon Ridge Trail Roane Riverfest Celebration The paper and forest product Kingston City Park George Washington's company Bowater maintains this Kingston, TN Birthday Celebration trail. Hikers can observe the Fort Southwest Point August managing, planting, nurturing, and Highway 58 South clear-cutting of a commercial forest, Kingston, TN Living History Days as well as the effects of surface Phone: 865-376-3641 (see May) mining on a forested area. Hand dug

March September iron ore pits still remain, and wheelbarrow and railroad grades run Tennessee Quarter Horse Show Harriman Street Festival across the area. The trail features a Expo Center Harriman, TN series of stops on its self-guided tour. Harriman, TN Trail maps are available from Living History Days Bowater: May (see May) Bowater Calhoun Woodlands Living History Days October Operations May through October Calhoun, TN 37309-0188 Fort Southwest Point East Tennessee Antiques, Website: Highway 58 South Tractors, and Engine Show www.bowater.com/paper.html Kingston, TN Antique tractors and implements, Bradbury Community Club Phone: 865-376-3641 kiddie tractor pull, wheat thrashing, and more. Hosts bluegrass jam sessions on Lone Star Expo Center Tuesdays, and traditional country, World Championship Rodeo Harriman, TN gospel, and mountain music Expo Center Phone: 865-376-4200 performances on third Saturdays. Harriman, TN Free admission. Living History Days 3343 Buttermilk Road Smoky Mountain (see May) Kingston, TN

Walking Horse Show Phone: 865-376-8682 Expo Center Ole Fashion Trade Fair Live entertainment, antique cars Harriman, TN Cornstalk Heights Historic District and tractors, and more. Free Listed on the National Register of Hooray for Harriman admission. Historic Places, this ten-block Spring Concert Rockwood, TN area contains over 100 structures, Free admission. including many elaborate Victorian Riverfront Park November buildings. Harriman, TN NCA Finals Rodeo Harriman, TN Phone: 865-882-8570 Expo Center Phone: 865-882-0335 June Harriman, TN

Fort Southwest Point Fishing Rodeo December A partial reconstruction on the original site of a late 18th-century Kingston City Park Holiday Home Tours fort. A museum contains artifacts Kingston, TN Rockwood, TN

from the site. Free admission. Living History Days Cornstalk Heights Christmas Highway 58 South (see May) Home Tours Kingston, TN

National Barrel Horse Harriman, TN Phone: 865-376-3641 Colonial Christmas Party Association State Finals Harriman Heritage Museum Fort Southwest Point Expo Center The Temperance Building, built Highway 58 South Harriman, TN around 1891, houses artifacts, Kingston, TN photos, and memorabilia. Free July Phone: 865-376-3641 admission.

Independence Day at the Fort 330 Roane Street Fort Southwest Point Harriman, TN Highway 58 South Phone: 865-882-0335 Kingston, TN

Phone: 865-376-3641

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 95 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Kingston Oak Ridge Watts Bar Lake Several historic buildings from the Wildlife Management Area Boating, fishing, and hiking. Free 19th-century. Phone: 865-574-8204 admission.

Kingston, TN Highway 58 Post Oak Springs Kingston, TN Kingston Refuge Christian Church Phone: 800-386-4686 or 865-376-4201 Wildlife Management Area Built around 1812. Phone: 931-484-9571 Highway 1 Watts Bar

Rockwood, TN Wildlife Management Area Mount Roosevelt State Forest and Phone: 931-484-9571 Wildlife Management Area Roane County Museum of

Includes hiking trails and a fire History and Art tower. Free admission. Artifacts and displays from ancient Highway 70 times to World War II, hosted in Visitor Information

Rockwood, TN the antebellum county courthouse. Roane County Phone: 865-376-4201 or 931-484-9571 Free admission. Chamber of Commerce 119 Court Street Oak Ridge National Laboratory P.O. Box 876 P.O. Box 738 Kingston, TN 37763 ORNL is the nation’s largest and Kingston, TN 37763 most diverse energy research and Phone: 865-376-5572 Phone: 865-376-9211 development institution. It contains Fax: 865-376-4978 the Graphite Reactor, the world’s Rockwood Roane County Visitors Bureau first nuclear reactor to operate The Roane Iron Company formed P.O. Box 1033 continuously. Free admission. here after the Civil War. The 1226 South Kentucky Street Bethel Valley Road company built symmetrical houses Kingston, TN 37763 P.O. Box 2008 for employees, some of which are Phone: 800-386-4686 or 865-376-4201 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 still standing. The town contains E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 865-574-4163 several other structures from the Website: E-mail: [email protected] 19th and early 20th centuries. www.usit.net/roanecounty/ Website: www.ornl.gov Rockwood, TN

ROBERTSON COUNTY - SPRINGFIELD

August Events Places Bell Witch Bluegrass Competition Summer Adams Museum Second weekend Papers and other artifacts showing Musicians compete on fiddles, Trash and Treasures area history, including the harmonicas, banjos, guitars, and Weekend before July 4 establishment of the Planters other non-electric instruments. A city-wide yard sale that also Protective Association of Kentucky, Adams, TN features special events and craft Tennessee, and Virginia, which was demonstrations. Walking and Phone: 615-696-2589 or 615-696-2469 a forerunner of the Eastern Dark driving tours of area orchards and Fired Tobacco Growers shops detail over 200 years of local November Association. history. Free admission. Bell School Building Cross Plains, TN Apple Butter Festival Robin's Nest Orchard & Gift Shop Highway 41 North Phone: 615-654-2256 Adams, TN Cross Plains, TN

July Phone: 615-645-3797 Bell School

Antique Mall and Museum Tennessee-Kentucky Threshermen's Show Highway 41 Third week Phone: 615-696-8179

Old-fashioned craft and farming Bell Witch Cave demonstrations and other activities. Named for the legendary spirit that Adams,TN allegedly haunted the John Bell family in the early 1800s. 129 Eden Road Adams, TN Phone: 615-696-3055

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 96 © 2003 The Notgrass Company BLM Wild Horse and Burro Ridgetop Museum Trail of Tears Adoption/Holding Facility Ridgetop began in the 1800s as a National Historic Trail Free admission. summer resort and railroad In 1838 and 1839, thousands of 4844 Couts-Carr Road community. Cherokees were forced to leave their Cross Plains, TN Highway 41 homes in the southeastern states and Phone: 800-376-6009 Ridgetop, TN move to the territory that would Phone: 615-859-0596 or 615-851-6779 become Oklahoma. Today highways Center Hill Swamp that closely follow the trail are marked Wildlife Management Area Robertson County with official markers, and historic sites Phone: 615-781-6622 Historical Museum lie along the trail. Contact the National Details the tobacco, railroad, and Park Service and the local Chamber of Cross Plains whiskey industries in the 1800s. Take a self-guided scenic driving Commerce for specific information. Includes artifacts from the home of Long Distance Trails tour of this town's historic sites, George Washington's first cousin, shops, and orchards, dating from the Group Office, Santa Fe who ran the Wessyngton National Park Service late 1700s through the early 1900s. Plantation. Highway 25 P.O. Box 728 124 Sixth Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Phone: 615-654-2256 Springfield, TN Phone: 505-988-6888 First Presbyterian Church Phone: 615-382-7173 E-mail: [email protected] Used as a stable during the Civil Robin's Nest Orchard & Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ War. Gift Shop tearsnht.html

200 5th Avenue West Grows several varieties of peaches Springfield, TN White House Library and Museum and apples, and features a restored A replica of the original stagecoach Phone: 615-384-8711 log cabin. Free admission. inn from which the town took its 8402 Cedar Grove Road name, featuring antiques and Greenbrier Museum Cross Plains, TN Near City Hall which is on West artifacts showing town history Phone: 615-645-3797 from the late 1700s through the Church Street. Greenbrier, TN St. Michael's Church 1800s. Free admission. The oldest active Catholic 412 Highway 76 Mt. Zion United Methodist Church congregation in Tennessee, formed White House, TN Founded in 1798. in 1842. Phone: 615-672-0239 Turn left on Mt. Zion Road off Catholic Church Road Highway 257 Cedar Hill, TN Visitor Information

Springfield, TN Phone: 615-384-6200 Springfield/Robertson County Port Royal State Historic Park Thomas Drugs One of Tennessee's earliest Chamber of Commerce The building was constructed in 100 5th Avenue West communities and trading centers 1915, and Thomas Drug moved developed here as an old Indian Springfield, TN 37172 there in 1930. The store has an old- Phone: 615-384-3800 trail grew into a major stagecoach fashioned soda fountain, meals, and route. Today it features a covered Fax: 615-384-1260 a gift shop. Free admission. Website: bridge that spans the Red River, 7802 Highway 25 East and a museum contains historical www.springfieldtennchamber.org Cross Plains, TN exhibits about the area. Phone: 615-654-3877 White House Area 3300 Old Clarksville Highway Chamber of Commerce Adams, TN 37010 414 Highway 76 Phone: 931-358-9696 P.O. Box 521 Website: White House, TN 37188-0521 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 615-672-3937 parks/proyal/ Fax: 615-672-2828

Red River Canoeing E-mail: [email protected] Enjoy a four-hour trip. 8002 Highway 41 North Adams, TN Phone: 800-762-8408 or 615-696-2768 E-mail: [email protected]

Red River Baptist Church Founded in 1791. 308 S. Church Street Adams, TN Phone: 615-696-1284

Exchange Club Horse Show Heritage Days Events Twenty-five classes of Tennessee Food, music, and demonstrations of January Walking Horses. 19th-century farm life. Rutherford County Agricultural Sam Davis Home Anniversary of the Center Smyrna, TN Battle of Stones River Golf Lane Phone: 615-459-2341 December 31 to January 3 Murfreesboro, TN Sam Davis' Birthday Stones River National Battlefield Phone: 615-893-4651 Murfreesboro TN 37129 Sam Davis Home Phone: 615-893-9501 July Smyrna, TN

Website: www.nps.gov/stri/ Phone: 615-459-2341 Civil War Encampment Spring Demonstrations of camp life and November artillery firing. Jazz Fest Stones River National Battlefield Visions of Sugarplums Jazz, food, and fun on the Murfreesboro TN 37129 This historic house is decorated in Murfreesboro town square. Free Phone: 615-893-9501 mid-19th century style. Sam Davis Home admission. Website: www.nps.gov/stri/ Murfreesboro, TN Smyrna, TN Phone: 800-716-7560 or 615-895-1887 Uncle Dave Macon Days Phone: 888-750-9524 or 615-459- E-mail: [email protected] Old-time music and dance festival 2341

Website: www.dnj.com/jazzfest/ with numerous competitions, a December motorless parade, and a gospel April celebration. Free admission. Bethlehem Marketplace Cannonsburgh Pioneer Day Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village Recreation of a marketplace at the Food, crafts, and demonstrations of Murfreesboro, TN time of Jesus' birth. Free admission. Phone: 800-716-7560 or 615-893-6565 Southeast Baptist Church pioneer life. Free admission. Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village September Murfreesboro, TN Murfreesboro, TN Phone: 615-896-0940 Pioneer Power Days Phone: 615-893-6565 or 615-890-0355 Cannonsburgh Christmas Antique farm machinery exhibition. Charlie Daniels Rodeo Eagleville School Open House Professional rodeo cowboys Eagleville, TN December Refreshments and entertainment. competing in six IPRA-sanctioned Phone: 615-274-6987 events. Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village Tennessee Livestock Center October Murfreesboro, TN

Murfreesboro, TN Phone: 800-716-7560 or 615-893-6565 Cannonsburgh Harvest Day Festival Phone: 615-890-0850 Horseshoe pitching tournament, Town and Country Tour of Homes May old time music, crafts, food, Smyrna, TN clogging, blacksmithing, broom Phone: 888-750-9524 Days on the Farm making, quilt display, and other A living history celebration with demonstrations. Free admission. Visions of Sugarplums demonstrations of lye soap making, (see November) Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village washing, blacksmithing, and more. Murfreesboro, TN Anniversary of the Sam Davis Home Phone: 800-716-7560 or 615-893-6565 Battle of Stones River 1399 Sam Davis Road (see January) Smyrna, TN 37167 Heart of Tennessee Phone: 615-459-2341 Scottish Celebration

Gathering of clans, piping, Places June athletics, highland dancing, Celtic

Sam Davis Home music, Scottish county dancing, and Bradley Academy Civil War Show and Sale food. This 1917 school building now Dealers in guns, swords, books, and MTSU Campus houses a cultural and heritage relics come together from several Mail: P.O. Box 2053 facility. states. Mufreesboro, TN 37133-2053 415 South Academy Smyrna Town Centre Phone: 615-848-9193 Murfreesboro, TN

Smyrna, TN For tour, call Nancy Vaughan. Phone: 615-895-5532 Phone: 888-750-9524 or 615-459-2341

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 98 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village Murfreesboro/Rutherford County Stones River National Battlefield A reconstructed 19th-century Center for the Arts Here was one of the bloodiest village, which features a log house, Art gallery, educational programs, battles of the Civil War, December a blacksmith shop, a church, a and performances. 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863. schoolhouse, a general store, a 110 West College Street Within the park are the Stones gristmill, and a museum. Free Murfreesboro, TN River National Cemetery, which admission for self-guided tours. Phone: 615-904-2787 or 615-893-9825 contains more than 6,000 Union 312 South Front Street graves; Fortress Rosecrans, built P.O. Box 1139 Nissan Factory by Union troops after the battle; Murfreesboro, TN 37133-1139 Tours are available. Free and the Hazen Monument, believed admission with reservations. Phone: 615-893-6565 or 615-890-0355 to be the oldest Civil War 983 Nissan Drive Monument. Free admission. Center for Popular Music Smyrna, TN 37167 3501 Old Nashville Highway Maintains a large research library Phone: 615-459-1444 Murfreesboro TN 37129 and archive, and presents public Oaklands Historic House Museum Phone: 615-893-9501 programs. E-mail: [email protected] Middle Tennessee State University Built in four phases from about 1815 to 1860 and decorated in Website: www.nps.gov/stri/ Murfreesboro, TN Phone: 615-898-2449 1860s furnishings. President Sunnybell Cedar Glade Jefferson Davis visited here in Fax: 615-898-5829 State Natural Area 1862. E-mail: [email protected] 900 North Maney Avenue Trail of Tears National Historic Children's Discovery House P.O. Box 432 Trail Museum Murfreesboro, TN 37133 In 1838 and 1839, thousands of A hands-on art, science, and nature Phone: 615-893-0022 Cherokees were forced to leave museum. their homes in the southeastern Overbridge State Natural Area 503 North Maple Street states and move to the territory Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Percy Priest Wildlife that would become Oklahoma. Phone: 615-890-2300 Management Area Today highways that closely follow E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 615-459-2188 the trail are marked with official markers, and historic sites lie along Fate Sanders Barrens Rutherford County Courthouse & the trail. Contact the National Park State Natural Area Historic District Service and the local Chamber of Flat Rock Cedar Glades and The courthouse has been the home Commerce for specific information. of Rutherford County's government Barrens State Natural Area Long Distance Trails since 1859. A walking tour map of Group Office, Santa Fe Geographic Center of Tennessee the area is available at the Chamber National Park Service The geographic center of the state of Commerce and the courthouse. P.O. Box 728 was identified in 1834. The Free admission. Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Rutherford County Historical Main Street Phone: 505-988-6888 Society placed an obelisk on the Murfreesboro, TN E-mail: [email protected] spot in 1976. Phone: 615-895-1887 Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Old Lascassas Pike E-mail: [email protected] tearsnht.html Near MTSU Website: www.dnj.com/mainstreet/ Waterhill Flood Plain Long Hunter State Park Sam Davis Home State Natural Area Located beside Percy Priest Lake. The 21-year-old Confederate scout

2910 Hobson Pike Sam Davis was executed when he Hermitage, TN 37076 refused to give up information or Visitor Information Phone: 615-885-2422 betray his informant. This house Website: and working farm show the life of a Rutherford County www.state.tn.us/environment/ typical middle class southern family Chamber of Commerce parks/longhunt/ before the Civil War. 501 Memorial Boulevard 1399 Sam Davis Road P.O. Box 864 Manuel's Cajun Country Store Smyrna, TN 37167 Murfreesboro, TN 37133-0864 Authentic Cajun country music and Phone: 888-750-9524 or 615-459-2341 Phone: 800-716-7560 or 615-893-6565 entrees. Fax: 615-890-7600 12016 Milton Street Stones River Greenway Trail E-mail: Milton, TN A 4-1/4-mile walking, biking, and [email protected] Phone: 615-273-2312 rollerblading trail connecting the Website: www.rutherfordchamber.org Stones River battlefield, Fortress Rosecrans, and Cannonsburgh Website: Village. Free admission Rutherford County Phone: 615-890-5333 www.rutherfordcounty.org

Big South Fork Wilderness Resorts Events Visitor Information Horseback riding, hiking, mountain September biking, canoeing, hunting, and Scott County fishing. Chamber of Commerce Winfield Appalachian 4800 Station Camp Road P.O. Box 4442 Dumpling Festival Oneida, TN Oneida, TN 37841 Winfield, TN Phone: 423-569-9847 Phone: 800-645-6905 or 423-569-6900 E-mail: [email protected] Sorghum Festival Cumberlands of Tennessee Old-fashioned "stir-off" sorghum Website: www.wildernessresorts.com Heritage Trail making, bluegrass music, and more. Honey Creek Pocket Wilderness P.O. Box 8 Oneida, TN Tally Ho Stables Rugby, TN 37733 Phone: 800-645-6905 or 423-569-6900 Phone: 423-628-2441 Guided and unguided horse rides. Website: www.cumberlands.org Places 6471 Grave Hill Road P.O. Box 4773 Website: Bandy Creek Stables Oneida, TN 37841 Scott County, Tennessee Guided and unguided horse rides. Phone: 877-300-7438 or 423-569-9472 www.scottcounty.com Bandy Creek Loop Fax: 423-569-2451 Oneida, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-879-4013 Website: www.tallyhostables.com

Big South Fork National River Twin Arches State Natural Area and Recreation Area 4564 Leatherwood Road Royal Blue Oneida, TN 37841 Wildlife Management Area Phone: 423-569-9778 Phone: 423-566-8557

Website: www.nps.gov/biso/

SEQUATCHIE COUNTY - DUNLAP

Scott's Choo Choos Events Places Hundreds of Lionel and "O"/"O- June Canoe the Sequatchie 27" toy trains, cars, trucks, Highway 127 buildings, and people from the Coke Ovens Bluegrass Festival Box 211 1920s to the present. Free Dunlap, TN admission. Dunlap, TN 37327-0211 Horse Show Phone: 423-949-4400 Highway 127 South Dunlap, TN Dunlap, TN Fax: 423-949-2745 Phone: 423-949-4400 Dunlap Coke Ovens Park August Over 200 beehive coke ovens remain 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor from the early 1900s when they were Outdoor Sale Visitor Information used to convert coal into coke for use Phone: 800-327-3945 or 931-879-9948 in the iron and steel industries. This Sequatchie County/Dunlap E-mail: [email protected] park also contains a museum and Chamber of Commerce Website: other historic and reconstructed 13 Rankin Avenue North www.jamestowntn.org/worlds.htm items related to the mining P.O. Box 1653 operations. Free admission. October Dunlap, TN 37327 Mountain View Circle Phone: 423-949-7608 Coke Ovens Fall Festival Mail: 114 Walnut Street E-mail: [email protected] Dunlap, TN Dunlap, TN 37327 Website: www.sequatchie.com Phone: 423-949-3483

July Events Places Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair January Appalachian Trail Mountain craft and traditional art Appalachian Trail Conference demonstrations and exhibitions. Wilderness Wildlife Week 799 Washington Street Free admission. Guided tours, workshops, and P.O. Box 807 Gatlinburg Convention Center lectures about the Great Smoky Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 Gatlinburg, TN Mountains and their history. Free Phone: 304-535-6331 Phone: 865-436-7479 admission, but pre-registration is Fax: 304-535-2667 required. Website: www.craftsmenfair.com Website: www.atconf.org Pigeon Forge, TN Heritage Days The Apple Barn & Cider Mill Phone: 865-429-7350 Antique tractor pull, crafts, and Over 4,000 apple trees with a candy music festival. February factory, creamery, bakery, and Sevierville, TN Smoky Mountains general store. Free admission. Storytelling Festival August 230 Apple Valley Road Master storytellers continue an Sevierville, TN World Premiere Gospel Concert Phone: 800-421-4606 or 865-453- Appalachian tradition. Performances by over 70 artists. Pigeon Forge, TN 9319 Pigeon Forge, TN Phone: 865-429-7350 Arrowmont School of Phone: 800-362-1188 or 865-453-6618 March Arts and Crafts October This visual arts complex developed

Mountain Quiltfest Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair from the Pi Beta Phi Settlement Classes on various aspects of Mountain craft and traditional art School established in the 1910s. It quiltmaking and displays of unique demonstrations and exhibitions. offers classes in a variety of media quilts. Free admission. Free admission. and galleries of finished work. Free Pigeon Forge, TN Gatlinburg Convention Center admission to galleries. Phone: 865-429-7350 Gatlinburg, TN 556 Parkway Gatlinburg, TN 37738 April Phone: 865-436-7479 Website: www.craftsmenfair.com Phone: 865-436-5860 Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Fax: 865-430-4101 Gatlinburg, TN Harvest Celebration E-mail: [email protected] Phone:800-267-7088 or 865-430-4148 Crafts, food, autumn decorations, Website: www.arrowmont.org and the Southern Gospel Jubilee. May Dollywood Carbo's Smoky Mountain Police Museum Music and Arts Festival Pigeon Forge, TN Phone: 423-428-9488 Police badges, uniforms, weapons, Music, arts, crafts, and food at the and other items, including Sevier County courthouse. November memorabilia of Sheriff Buford Sevierville, TN Pusser. Sevier County High School's 3311 Parkway Gatlinburg Scottish Veterans Program Pigeon Forge, TN Festival and Games Full musical performance featuring Phone: 865-453-1358 Highland dancing, heavy athletics, patriotic tributes to America's music, clan tents, and more. Veterans. Cedar Ridge Riding Stables Mills Park Guided and unguided horse rides, a Tellabration Gatlinburg, TN petting zoo, and exotic animals. Weekend before Thanksgiving Phone: 865-457-8242 1816 Chapman Highway Participants around the world Sevierville, TN 37862 Smoky Mountain gather in their communities for a Phone: 865-428-5802 Balloons and Bluegrass time of storytelling. Hot air balloons and bluegrass Pigeon Forge, TN Chilhowee Mountain music. Phone: 423-429-7350 Wildlife Management Area

Sevierville, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-587-7037

Website: www.tellabration.org June

American Eagle Festival A celebration of the area's natural heritage. Sevierville, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 101 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Christus Gardens Great Smokies Mega Theatre The Old Mill and Restaurant Features life-size dioramas Features a seven-story screen. Features a water-powered gristmill depicting the life of Christ, a 322 Airport Road built in 1830. Tours available. Biblical coin collection, and more. Gatlinburg, TN 2944 Middle Creek Road 510 River Road Phone: 865-430-9999 Pigeon Forge, TN

Gatlinburg, TN Phone: 888-453-6455 or 865-453-4628 Phone: 865-436-5155 The Great Smoky E-mail: [email protected] Arts & Crafts Community Old Mill Village Shops, studios, and galleries A variety of shops and craftsmen. Website: www.christusgardens.com featuring artists and craftsmen at Free admission. Cove Mountain work. Free admission. 2924 Middle Creek Road Wildlife Management Area Highway 321 North Pigeon Forge, TN Phone: 423-587-7037 Gatlinburg, TN Phone: 423-453-5771 Phone: 800-221-5286 or 865-436-4315 Deer Farm Riding Stables E-mail: [email protected] Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies Guided horse rides. Website: 88 River Road 470 Happy Hollow Lane Gatlinburg, TN www.smokymtnarts-crafts.com Sevierville, TN Phone: 865-436-5096 Phone: 865-429-2276 Great Smoky Mountains E-mail: [email protected] National Park Dollywood This park covers land in Tennessee Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum Rides, shows, craft demonstrations and North Carolina. The visitor Over 1,000 exhibits and oddities and classes, and special events. Also center near Gatlinburg has natural from around the world. home to the Southern Gospel history exhibits, the visitor center 800 Parkway Music Hall of Fame and Museum. near Cherokee, NC, has exhibits on Gatlinburg, TN 1020 Dollywood Lane mountain life in the late 1800s and Phone: 865-436-5096 Pigeon Forge, TN 37863-4101 E-mail: [email protected] a collection of historic farm Phone: 800-365-5996 or 865-428-9488 buildings, and visitor center near E-mail: [email protected] Robert A. Tino Gallery Townsend, TN, sits among This 1844 house features the work Website: www.dollywood.com preserved 19th-century historic of watercolor painter Robert Tino. Elvis Museum buildings. The park has more than Free admission. Collection includes Presley's car, 800 miles of trails, and numerous 812 Old Douglas Dam Road jewelry, clothing, and guns. special events occur during the Sevierville, TN 37876 2638 Parkway year. Phone: 800-675-6961 or 865-453-6315 Pigeon Forge, TN 107 Park Headquarters Road Website: Phone: 865-428-2001 Gatlinburg, TN 37738 www.roberttinogallery.com Phone: 865-436-1200 Five Oaks Stables Website: www.nps.gov/grsm/ Roundtop Mountain Guided horse rides, hay rides, and State Natural Area carriage rides. Guinness World of Records 1650 Parkway Museum Sevier County Heritage Museum Sevierville, TN 37862 Exhibits and shows featuring The old Sevierville Post Office houses county artifacts from early Phone: 865-428-9764 information and memorabilia from the Guinness Book of World Records. settlers up to World War II. Floyd Garrett's 631 Parkway, B-11 167 Bruce Street Muscle Car Museum Gatlinburg, TN Sevierville, TN Over 90 classic high-performance cars. Phone: 865-436-9100 Phone: 865-453-4058 320 Winfield Dunn Parkway Sevierville, TN 37876 Heidelberg Restaurant Sevierville Historic Walking Trail Phone: 865-908-0882 German and American food, plus a Self-guided tour features 20 Fax: 865-908-9997 German band, polka music, and locations related to the settlement E-mail: [email protected] audience participation. Free and growth of Sevier County. Free brochure. Website: www.musclecarmuseum.com admission. 148 Parkway 866 Winfield Dunn Parkway Forbidden Caverns Gatlinburg, TN Sevierville, TN Guided tours past sparkling Phone: 865-430-3094 Phone: 888-766-5948, ext. 44 or 865- formations, natural chimneys, and 453-6411 streams. Middle Creek Stables 455 Blowing Cave Road Guided and unguided horse rides. Sevierville, TN 37876 Dollywood Lane Phone: 865-453-5972 Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 Fax: 865-453-3281 Phone: 865-428-8363

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 102 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Smoky Mountain Car Museum Walden's Creek Saddle Club Visitor Information Features gas-, electric-, and steam- Guided and unguided horse rides, powered automobiles. and hay rides. Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce 2970 Parkway 2709 Walden's Creek Road 466 Brookside Village Way, Suite 8 Pigeon Forge, TN Sevierville, TN 37862 P.O. Box 527 Phone: 865-453-3433 Phone: 800-289-8882 or 865-429-0411 Gatlinburg, TN 37738 Phone: 800-900-4148 Smoky Mountain Deer Farm & Willowbridge Farm E-mail: [email protected] Exotic Petting Zoo Guided horse rides. Website: www.gatlinburg.com Pet and feed many different types 2920 Jones Cove Road of animals. Sevierville, TN 37876 Gatlinburg Department of Tourism 478 Happy Hollow Lane Phone: 865-453-2257 or 865-453-6068 234 Airport Road Sevierville, TN Gatlinburg, TN Wilson's North American Phone: 865-428-3337 Phone: 800-267-7088 or 423-436-2392 Wildlife Museum Website: Smoky Mountain Knife Works This museum features stuffed www.gatlinburg-tennessee.com Showroom and museum. animals in their recreated habitats. Phone: 865-453-5871 870 Winfield Dunn Parkway Pigeon Forge Sevierville, TN Department of Tourism Space Needle Phone: 865-429-5626 P.O. Box 1390 A 400-foot observation tower. Free Fax: 865-429-5208 Pigeon Forge, TN 37868 admission. Phone: 800-251-9100 or 423-453-8574 115 Airport Road *Special Note: Cherokee, North TDD: 423-429-7444 Gatlinburg, TN Carolina, has cultural sites and Fax: 423-429-7362 Phone: 865-436-4629 events related to the Cherokee E-mail: [email protected] people, including the outdoor Website: www.pigeon-forge.tn.us drama, "Unto These Hills".

Sevierville Chamber of Commerce 866 Winfield Dunn Parkway Phone: 888-766-5948, ext. 44 or 865- 453-6411 Fax: 865-453-9649 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.seviervillechamber.org

SHELBY COUNTY - MEMPHIS

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April Events Commemorative Event Africa in April National Civil Rights Museum Hunter Jumper Horse Shows Cultural Awareness Festival Memphis, TN Germantown Charity Arena Features exhibits, seminars, and Germantown, TN Phone: 901-521-9699 artwork about a different African Phone: 901-756-6347 or 901-725-1997 January country each year. P.O. Box 111261 Lindenwood Concerts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Memphis, TN 38111 Hosts nationally- and Memphis, TN internationally-known artists. Phone: 901-947-2133 or 901-785-2542 Phone: 901-543-5333 2400 Union Avenue at East Parkway Fax: 901-947-2414 Memphis, TN 38112 February Crossroads Music Exposition Phone: 901-458-1652 Tennessee Black Heritage Festival Educational panels, workshops, and Fax: 901-458-0145 Highlights the achievements and clinics, plus rock, country, urban, E-mail: [email protected] contributions of African-Americans gospel, and blues performances. Remembering Bartlett to the State of Tennessee. P.O. Box 41858 A living history tour. Memphis, TN Memphis, TN 38174-1858 Bartlett, TN Phone: 901-272-0831 Phone: 901-526-4280

Phone: 901-372-9457 Fax: 901-527-8326 March

St. Patrick's Day Celebration Magevney House Memphis, TN Phone: 901-526-4464 or 901-523-1484 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 103 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Wetland Walk Germantown Charity Horse Show Germantown Festival April through September This five-day event is one of the Weekend after Labor Day See wetland wildlife including largest multi-breed horse shows in Exhibits, food, community events, birds, frogs, snakes, and a beaver's the United States. stage entertainment, and more. lodge. Call to schedule. Germantown, TN Free admission. T. O. Fuller State Park Phone: 901-754-7443 Franklin Morgan Woods-Cloyes Park Memphis, TN Germantown, TN Sunset on the Square Concert Series Phone: 901-543-7581 Phone: 901-757-9212 Website: Thursdays in June and July www.state.tn.us/environment/ Collierville, TN Mid-South Fair Phone: 901-853-1666 or 901-854-6123 September and October parks/tofuller/events.htm Championship rodeo, concerts, May Wetland Walk creative arts, and more. (see April) Memphis, TN Memphis in May Phone: 901-274-8800 International Festival July Fax: 901-274-8804 Musical and cultural events honor a Memphis Music & Heritage Festival Website: www.midsouthfair.com selected foreign country. Celebrates the South's diversity in 245 Wagner Place, Suite 220 art, music, and food. Wetland Walk Memphis, TN 38103 Memphis, TN (see April) Phone: 901-525-4611 Phone: 901-525-3655 October

Fax: 901-525-4686 Sunset on the Square Concert Series Junior College Baseball Arts in the Park Festival (see June) Artists from around the country World Series Last weekend Wetland Walk display their work. Call for information on other (see April) Memphis, TN national amateur baseball events Phone: 901-761-1278 Summer starting in February. Fullerfest Millington, TN IPRA National Championship Gospel concert. Free admission. Phone: 901-872-8326 Rodeo T. O. Fuller State Park Millington, TN Wetland Walk Memphis, TN Phone: 901-872-8326 Phone: 901-543-7581 (see April) Website: August June www.state.tn.us/environment/

Wetland Walk parks/tofuller/events.htm Summerfest (see April) James Logan Colbert Guided hikes, demonstrations, and Living Encampment workshops. September Demonstrations of 18th- and 19th- Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Bartlett Celebration century frontier life, with period Millington, TN games and contests. Phone: 901-876-5201 Music, arts, and crafts. Bartlett, TN Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Website: Millington, TN www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 901-385-5590 Phone: 901-876-5201 parks/meeman/events.htm Chickasaw Bluffs Website: Memphis Italian Festival Appreciation Day www.state.tn.us/environment/ Food, games, art, and music Wildlife demonstrations, guided parks/meeman/events.htm hikes with plant identification, and provide a look at Italian culture and Mid-South Fair heritage. boat rides. Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park (see September) 1056 Estate Drive Memphis, TN 38119 Millington, TN Mulberry Festival Phone: 901-685-1378 Phone: 901-876-5201 Music, entertainment, special Fax: 901-818-5442 Website: events, and an arts competition. www.state.tn.us/environment/ Collierville, TN Juneteenth Celebration parks/meeman/events.htm Phone: 901-853-1949

Outdoor festivities, exhibits, food, Fax: 901-853-2399 and music celebrate the end of International Goat Days Festival Goat chariot race, whistling E-mail: [email protected] slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. Memphis, TN competition, horseshoe-pitching Phone: 901-458-3950 and milking contests, cook-offs, and more. 4880 Navy Road Millington, TN 38053

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 104 © 2003 The Notgrass Company November Arlington Biblical Resource This town contains several homes Center and Museum Tellabration dating back to the 1870s. Resources, artifacts, and exhibits Weekend before Thanksgiving Phone: 901-867-2620 or 901-867-2620 related to the history and cultural Participants around the world background of the Bible. Special gather in their communities for a Art Museum of the programs for homeschoolers. Free time of storytelling. University of Memphis admission. Memphis, TN Egyptian antiquities, West African 324 Poplar View Parkway Phone: 901-353-1713 art, and changing exhibitions. Free Collierville, TN 38017 E-mail: [email protected] admission. Phone: 901-854-9578 Website: www.tellabration.org Communications & Fine Arts Building Fax: 901-854-9883 3750 Norriswood E-mail: [email protected] December Memphis, TN 38152-6540 Website: www.biblical-museum.org Dickens on the Square Phone: 901-678-2224 or 901-678-2555 Collierville, TN Fax: 901-678-5118 Carriage Tours of Memphis Phone: 901-853-1666 or 901-854-6123 E-mail: [email protected] Guided rides through Beale Street Website: www.people.memphis.edu/ and downtown Memphis. The Forest in Winter ~artmuseum/AMHome.html 393 North Main Street Watch waterfowl return to Poplar Memphis, TN Ballet Memphis Tree Lake and take a guided hike. Phone: 901-527-7542 Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park 7950 Trinity Road Millington, TN P.O. Box 3675 Center for Southern Folklore Phone: 901-876-5201 Cordova, TN 38088-3675 Changing exhibits and Website: Phone: 901-737-7322 performances present the people, www.state.tn.us/environment/ Fax: 901-737-7037 music, and traditions of the South. P.O. Box 226 parks/meeman/events.htm Bartlett Museum/Gotten House Memphis, TN 38101 Germantown Invitational Artifacts, photographs, and history Phone: 901-525-3655 Soccer Tournament of Bartlett. Fax: 901-525-3945 Draws soccer teams from several 2969 Court Street E-mail: states, Canada, and Argentina. Bartlett, TN 38134 [email protected] Phone: 901-373-8433 Phone: 901-775-6688 Website: www.southernfolklore.com

Bartlett Performing Arts & Children's Museum of Memphis Conference Center Interactive exhibitions, programs, Music, dance, and theater and resources teach about the arts, programs. humanities, and science and 3663 Appling Road technology. Bartlett, TN 38133 2525 Central Avenue Phone: 901-385-6440 Memphis, TN 38104 Fax: 901-385-6438 Phone: 901-458-2678 or 901-320-3170 Beale Street Blues Museum Fax: 901-458-4033 Offers a self-guided tour of blues E-mail: [email protected] history from slavery to the 1940s. Website: www.cmom.com 329 Beale Street

Memphis, TN 38103 Chucalissa

Phone: 901-527-4585 A reconstructed 15th-century Places Native American village and Beale Street Historic District museum. Choctaw Indians live on A. Schwab Dry Goods Store Clubs, shops, galleries, restaurants, the site and demonstrate crafts. In operation since 1876. Free and lots of music. Call for information on pow-wows admission. Between Main and Fourth Streets and Indian stick ball games. 163 Beale Street Memphis, TN 1987 Indian Village Drive Memphis, TN Phone: 901-526-0110 Memphis, TN 38109 Phone: 901-523-9782 Fax: 901-526-0125 Phone: 901-785-3160 Fax: 901-754-4355 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 901-785-7724 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bealestreet.com E-mail: [email protected]

Agricenter International Beale Street Police Museum Website: www.people.memphis.edu/ Memphis Police Department ~chucalissa/ A research farm and agricultural information center. Free admission. 159 Beale Street 7777 Walnut Grove Road Memphis, TN 38103 Memphis, TN Phone: 901-545-5700 Phone: 901-757-7777 Website: www.agricenter.org Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 105 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Collierville Elmwood Cemetery Germantown A walking tour includes the town's Founded in 1852, this cemetery Performing Arts Centre first stagecoach stop, a Confederate features a collection of Victorian Musical and other artistic park, and numerous historic statues and monuments. Free performances, plus Saturday churches, businesses, and other admission. morning sessions for children. buildings. Free admission. 824 South Dudley Street 1801 Exeter Road P.O. Box 53 Memphis, TN 38104 Germantown, TN 38138 Collierville, TN 38027 Phone: 901-774-3212 Phone: 901-751-7500 or 901-757-7256 Phone: 901-853-1666 Fax: 901-774-0085 Fax: 901-751-7514

Website: www.elmwoodcemetery.org Collins Chapel CME Church Gibson Guitar Memphis Established in 1841. Flashback Tour the factory and visit the 678 Washington Avenue A vintage department store with museum and gallery. Memphis, TN art, fashions, and furnishings from 145 Lt. George W. Lee Avenue Phone: 901-525-2872 the 1930s to the 1970s. Memphis, TN 38103

2304 Central Avenue Phone: 800-444-2766 or 901-578-5199 Danny Thomas-ALSAC Pavilion Memphis, TN 38104 Provides an historical record of the Graceland Phone: 901-272-2304 St. Jude Children's Research Elvis Presley's Memphis home. Hospital, the fundraising Finn Navy Aviation 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard organization, and the works of its Ordnance Museum Memphis, TN 38116 founder, Danny Thomas. Free 7800 Third Avenue Phone: 800-238-2000 or 901-332-3322 admission. Millington, TN 38054-5059 TDD: 901-344-3146 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Phone: 901-873-5322 Fax: 901-332-1636 332 North Lauderdale Website: www.elvis-presley.com Fire Museum of Memphis Memphis, TN 38105-2729 Slide down the firehouse pole, Harrell Performing Arts Theatre Davies Manor climb on a fire engine, and see Broadway musicals and other Begun in 1807, this is Shelby restored antique fire apparatus. drama, dance, and choral County's oldest furnished log and Located in Fire Engine House No. productions. Free admission. chink frontier home. 1, built in 1910. 440 West Powell Road 9336 Davies Plantation Road 118 Adams Avenue Collierville, TN P.O. Box 56 Memphis, TN 38103 Phone: 901-853-1949 Brunswick, TN 38014 Phone: 901-320-5650 Heritage Railroad and Phone: 901-386-0715 Fax: 901-529-8422 Memphis Transportation Museum Website: www.firemuseum.com Delta Axis Train Display Contemporary Arts Center Fort Germantown Train cars on display include a Exhibits of Southern art. Replicas of Howitzer cannons mark 1912 steam engine, a 1915 639 Marshall Avenue the place where Union troops built executive's car, a 1920s caboose, Memphis, TN earthwork defenses during the Civil and other cars from the 1930s and Phone: 901-522-9946 or 901-327-5917 War. 1940s. Free admission. E-mail: [email protected] Honey Tree Drive 125 North Rowlett

Germantown, TN Collierville, TN 38017 Dixon Gallery and Gardens Phone: 901-853-5034 Located on a 17-acre tract of Germantown Community Theatre gardens and woodlands, this Features dramatic productions and Hunt-Phelan Home gallery specializes in 19th-century houses an art gallery. Built in 1828, this restored home French painting by artists such as 3037 Forest Hill Road contains original furnishings dating Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, and Germantown, TN back to 1608. Family photographs, Degas. Special exhibits year-round. Phone: 755-7038 documents, and personal items 4339 Park Avenue illustrate American history. Memphis, TN 38117 Germantown Depot 533 Beale Street Phone: 901-761-5250 Originally built before 1868 and P.O. Box 16826 E-mail: [email protected] rebuilt in 1948, this depot contains Memphis, TN a collection of railroad memorabilia. Website: www.dixon.org Phone: 800-350-9009 or 901-344-3166 Germantown Road TDD: 901-344-3146 Ducks Unlimited Germantown, TN

Fax: 901-344-1636 International Headquarters

Features tours and displays of memorabilia and the wetlands ecosystem. Free admission. 1 Waterfowl Way Memphis, TN Phone: 901-758-3825

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 106 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Libertyland Mason Temple Memphis Music Hall of Fame Rides for adults and children, Church of God in Christ Features early recordings of including a 1909 carousel, plus live Headquarters of the Church of God Memphis music and memorabilia shows, carnival games, and more. in Christ and site of Martin Luther from famous artists and studios. 940 Early Maxwell Boulevard King's last speech. Free admission. 97 South Second Street Memphis, TN 38104 938 Mason Street Memphis, TN 38103 Phone: 800-552-7275 or 901-274-1776 Memphis, TN 38126 Phone: 901-525-4007

Fax: 901-274-8804 Phone: 901-947-9300 or 901-578-3830 E-mail: [email protected] Memphis Pink Palace Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Museum & Planetarium Website: www.libertyland.com This park borders the Mississippi From dinosaurs to Elvis, this museum Lichterman Nature Center River and contains thousands of acres explores the natural and cultural An educational facility and wildlife of hardwood forests. Deer, turkey, history of the Mid-South. This site also sanctuary on 65 acres in East beaver, and some 200 species of birds features the Pink Palace Mansion, an Memphis. Wildlife programs are are abundant. The Meeman Museum IMAX theater, and the Sharpe featured on Saturdays and Sundays. and Nature Center provide additional Planetarium. 5992 Quince Road information. 3050 Central Avenue Memphis, TN 38119-7256 910 Riddick Road Memphis, TN 38111-3399 Phone: 901-767-7322 Millington, TN 38053 Phone: 901-320-6362 or 901-320-6371 Fax: 901-682-3050 Phone: 901-876-5215 Fax: 901-320-6391 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: Website: www.memphismuseums.org/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ [email protected] nature.htm parks/meeman/ Website: www.memphismuseums.org/ Magevney House Memphis Botanic Garden museum.htm Built in the 1830s by an Irish Ninety-six acres of outdoor immigrant, this house is now gardens including Japanese, rose, Memphis Queen Line Riverboats furnished in 1850s style with herb, wildflower, and various other Sightseeing cruises on the several Magevney family plants. The Goldsmith Civic Mississippi River. possessions. Free admission. Garden Center features a Boehm 45 South Riverside Drive 198 Adams Avenue porcelain collection, art exhibitions, Memphis, TN 38103 Memphis, TN 38103 horticultural shows, and a plant Phone: 800-221-6197 or 901-527-2694 Phone: 901-526-4464 or 901-523-1484 information library. Fax: 901-524-5757 Fax: 901-526-8666 750 Cherry Road E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: Memphis, TN 38117-4699 Website: www.memphisqueen.com [email protected] Phone: 901-685-1566 Website: www.memphismuseums.org/ Fax: 901-682-1561 Memphis Symphony Orchestra 3100 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 501 magevney.htm E-mail: Memphis, TN 38111 [email protected] Main Street Trolley Phone: 901-324-3627 Antique trolleys provide Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Fax: 901-324-3698 transportation between several Tennessee's oldest and largest art E-mail: downtown locations. museum, featuring over 7,000 [email protected] 547 North Main Street paintings, sculptures, decorative Website: www.memphissymphony.org Memphis, TN 38105 arts, prints, drawings, photographs, Phone: 901-274-6282 and textiles. Memphis Transportation Museum TTY: 901-274-1757 Overton Park Vintage railroad passenger cars for tours and special events. Open by Fax: 901-577-2660 1934 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 appointment. Mallory-Neely House Phone: 888-262-1916 or 901-544-6200 126 North Rowlett Street A three-story Italianate mansion Fax: 901-725-4071 Collierville, TN 38117 built in 1852. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 901-362-0602 or 901-683-2266 652 Adams Avenue Fax: 901-367-3181

Website: www.brooksmuseum.org Memphis, TN 38105-4902 Phone: 901-523-1484 Memphis College of Art Memphis Zoo Fax: 901-526-8666 This art and design school hosts 2000 Galloway Avenue E-mail: several art exhibitions each year Memphis, TN 38112 [email protected] and offers art programs to the Phone: 800-288-8763 or 901-276-9453 Website: www.memphismuseums.org/ community. Free admission to Fax: 901-725-9305 E-mail: [email protected] mallory.htm gallery. Website: www.memphiszoo.org 1930 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN Phone: 901-272-5100 Website: www.mca.edu

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 107 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Mud Island River Park Orpheum Theatre Rachel H. K. Burrow Museum A museum traces the history, legends, Built in 1928, this former A log cabin and an antique post office. and folklore of the Mississippi River. vaudeville palace has been restored 6235 Chester Street The River Walk is a five-block replica and converted into a performing P.O. Box 43 of the river. A pavilion houses the arts center presenting Broadway Arlington, TN 38002 Memphis Belle, a World War II shows, operas, ballets, concerts, Phone: 901-867-3957 bomber, and interpretive displays about films, and other special events. the plane and the war. 203 South Main Street Rainbow Works 125 North Front Street Memphis, TN 38103 Religious, commercial, and home Memphis, TN 38103 Phone: 901-525-7800 or 901-525-3000 stained glass on displays. Visitors Phone: 800-507-6507 or 901-576-7230 Fax: 901-526-0829 can see windows being made and TDD: 800-848-0298 E-mail: [email protected] watch artists designing and Fax: 901-576-6666 Web site: www.orpheum- creating renderings. 387 South Main Website: www.mudisland.com memphis.com Memphis, TN National Civil Rights Museum The Peabody Ducks Phone: 800-873-4604 or 901-521-0400 Displays, interactive exhibits, and These waterfowl parade through civil rights memorabilia show the the Grand Lobby of the Peabody Raoul Wallenberg Overton history of the American Civil twice a day. Park Shell Rights Movement. Located at the 149 Union Avenue Features spring and summer former Lorraine Motel, site of the Memphis, TN 38103 concerts on Saturday afternoons. assassination of Martin Luther Phone: 800-732-2639 or 901-529-4000 Free admission. King, Jr. Fax: 901-529-4184 1928 Poplar Avenue 406 Mulberry Street Website: www.peabodymemphis.com/ Memphis, TN

Phone: 901-274-6046 Memphis, TN 38103 tour/ducks.html Phone: 901-521-9699 or 901-576-7241 Peabody Place Museum & Gallery Riverwoods State Natural Area Fax: 901-521-9740 E-mail: [email protected] A large collection of Chinese art Shelby Farms Forest treasures dating from 1644 to 1911. Website: www.civilrightsmuseum.org State Natural Area Jade, ivory, porcelain, furnishings, National Ornamental Metal scrolls, and other objects. Shelby Forest and Eagle Lake Museum Pembroke Square, Concourse Level Refuge Wildlife Management Area Features an outdoor metal 119 South Main Street Phone: 901-876-5169 sculpture garden, changing Memphis, TN Slavehaven/Underground Railroad exhibitions, and a collection of Phone: 901-523-2787 Museum objects dating back to the 16th Website: www.belz.com/museum/ Learn about the Underground century. Visitors can watch staff Railroad at this 1849 house where metalsmiths at work in the smithy. Playhouse on the Square runaway slaves hid on their way 374 Metal Museum Drive Theatrical and musical productions. North. Secret cellars and trap Memphis, TN 38106 51 South Cooper Street doors, plus displays of ads, Phone: 901-774-6380 Memphis, TN 38104 auctions, and artifacts. By E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 901-726-4656 or 901-725-0776 Fax: 901-272-7530 appointment only.

Website: www.metalmuseum.org 826 North Second Street Oaklawn Gardens Poplar Pike Playhouse Memphis, TN 38107 Among the historical items on Mainstage productions, acting Phone: 901-527-3427 festivals, and children's theatre. display here are the town's first fire Fax: 901-527-8784 truck and first jail cell. Germantown High School St. Nick Farm and Zoological Park 7831 Poplar Pike 7653 Old Poplar Pike Germantown, TN Antelope, gazelles, peacocks, ibex, Germantown, TN Phone: 901-755-7775 oryx, zebras, snow leopards, and Opera Memphis other animals. Call for viewing University of Memphis, South The Pyramid arrangements. Campus The third largest pyramid in the 10920 East Shelby Drive 4097 South MSU-B Street, Suite 1 world, this venue hosts sporting Collierville, TN 38017 and other entertainment events. Memphis, TN 38152-4170 Phone: 901-853-3492 Phone: 901-678-2706 Tours are available. E-mail: [email protected] One Auction Avenue Memphis, TN 38105 Website: www.operamemphis.org Phone: 901-521-9675 Fax: 901-528-0153 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pyramidarena.com

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 108 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Sun Studio We're Nuts Pecan Company, Inc. Germantown Area Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Visit this pecan cracking, shelling, Chamber of Commerce Perkins and other musicians made sorting, and bagging facility and 2195 Germantown Road South their first records here. Tours are watch 1940s pecan machinery in Germantown, TN 38138 available. action. Phone: 901-755-1200 706 Union Avenue 62 South Front Street Fax: 901-755-9168 Memphis, TN 38103 Memphis, TN 38103 E-mail: Phone: 800-441-6249 or 901-521-0664 Phone: 800-254-7768 or 901-521-6887 [email protected] Fax: 901-525-8055 Fax: 901-521-6887 Website:

E-mail: [email protected] www.germantownchamber.com Wonders: The Memphis Website: www.sunstudio.com International Cultural Series Millington Area S.Y. Wilson & Co. Hosts extensive historical Chamber of Commerce A mercantile store operating since exhibitions. Past exhibitions 7743 Church Street 1893. include "Rameses II," "Napoleon," Millington, TN 38053 12020 Walker Street "Catherine the Great" and Phone: 901-872-1486 Arlington, TN 38002 "Titanic." Contact the organization Fax: 901-872-0727 Phone: 901-867-2226 for current information. E-mail: [email protected] The Pyramid Website: T. O. Fuller State Park One Convention Plaza www.ci.millington.tn.us/mill_coc.html The only state park within the Memphis, TN Memphis city limits. Thomas O. Phone: 800-263-6744 or 901-576-1231 The Great River Road Fuller was a minister, teacher, E-mail: [email protected] Promotes historic sites and attractions writer, and North Carolina senator. along the Mississippi from Canada to Web site: www.wonders.org 1500 Mitchell Road the Gulf of Mexico. Free brochure. Memphis, TN 38109 Woodruff-Fontaine House/ Mississippi River Parkway Phone: 901-543-7581 Lee House & Victorian Village Commission Fax: 901-785-8485 A French Victorian mansion P.O. Box 59159 Website: featuring 19th- and 20th-century Minneapolis, MN 55459-8207 www.state.tn.us/environment/ furnishings, decorative arts, and Phone: 612-212-2560 parks/tofuller/ textiles in changing exhibits. Other E-mail: [email protected]

Victorian houses are nearby. Website: www.mississippi-river.com Theatre Memphis 680 Adams Avenue Community theatre offering Memphis, TN 38105-4902 See More on Scenic Highway 64 Broadway-style plays and musicals, Phone: 901-526-1469 Features historic sites, attractions, as well as children's productions. and events in southwestern Fax: 901-526-4531 630 Perkins Extended Tennessee. Free brochure. Memphis, TN 38117 Hardin County Tourism Phone: 901-682-8601 or 901-682-8323 Visitor Information 507 Main Street Fax: 901-763-4096 Savannah, TN 38372 E-mail: [email protected] Memphis Convention & Phone: 800-552-3866 Website: theatrememphis.org Visitors Bureau 49 Union Avenue *Special Note: If you are looking U.S.A. Amateur Baseball Memphis, TN 38103 for accommodations in Memphis, Hall of Fame Phone: 901-543-5300 get a list of Bed & Breakfasts. You 4880 Navy Road Fax: 901-543-5351 may find one in a fascinating Millington, TN 38053 E-mail: [email protected] historic home that provides a great Phone: 901-872-7228 Website: www.memphistravel.com stay.

W. C. Handy Home Museum Arlington City Hall Websites: W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues," Phone: 901-867-2620 City of Collierville wrote many of his songs here, www.collierville.com where he and his wife raised their Bartlett Area six children. Chamber of Commerce City of Germantown 352 Beale Street 6450 Stage Road www.ci.germantown.tn.us P.O. Box 34193 Memphis, TN 38103 City of Memphis Bartlett, TN 38184-0193 Phone: 901-522-1556 or 901-527-3427 www.ci.memphis.tn.us Fax: 901-527-8784 Phone: 901-372-9457 Fax: 901-372-9488 City of Millington Website: www.bacofc.com www.ci.millington.tn.us

ColliervilleChamber of Commerce Memphis Museum System 125 North Rowlett www.memphismuseums.org Collierville, TN 38017 Phone: 901-853-1949

October Cordell Hull Lake Events Learn how hydroelectric power is Fall Heritage Festival May generated and find out about Music, food, crafts, antique wildlife in Middle Tennessee. Classic Car Show tractors, and more. Free Route 1, Box 62 Cumberland Bank admission. Carthage, TN 37030-9710 Phone: 615-683-8282 Carthage, TN Phone: 615-735-1034 Phone: 615-735-9430 or 615-735- Fax: 615-735-1032 June 2496

Defeated Creek Bluegrass Cordell Hull November Wildlife Management Area Festival Phone: 931-484-9571 Holiday Open House Phone: 615-774-3230 Phone: 615-735-2093 Gordonsville Fun Festival Music and other entertainment, Visitor Information Places craft displays, and more. Free admission. Smith County Carthage Ivy-Agee Park Chamber of Commerce Gordonsville, TN The city of Carthage has several historic homes and sites by which 130 Third Avenue West Phone: 615-683-8243 you can drive, including the 1879 P.O. Box 70 Carthage, TN 37030 Civitan Horse Show courthouse. Phone: 615-735-2093 Carthage, TN Phone: 615-735-2093 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 615-735-0798 Center Hill Lake Website: www.smithcounty.net Fall Resource Manager Lancaster, TN 38569 Upper Cumberland Cruzin' the Cumberland Tourism Association Phone: 615-858-3125 The Music City Queen Riverboat P.O. Box 2411 provides dinner and sightseeing Cookeville, TN 38502 cruises. Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520- 1088 Phone: 615-735-2093

STEWART COUNTY - DOVER

June River Days Events Labor Day weekend Heritage Sunday Riverboat Visits Features arts and crafts, music, First Sunday Summer and Fall entertainment, carnival rides, and This Street Festival honors the The Delta Queen and Mississippi river activities. first settlers of the area. Queen riverboats stop at the Dover Dover, TN In and around Dover Cemetery Landing on 10 to 15 selected dates. Phone: 931-232-8290 Dover, TN Phone: 931-232-8290 Phone: 931-232-5706 or 931-232-5348 October

May September Homeplace 1850 Wedding Illumination Ceremony A recreated mid-19th-century Harvest Celebration and Saturday before May 30 wedding and celebration with Trades Fair Held in honor of soldiers from both music, dance, and games. Demonstrations of mid-19th- sides who died at the Battle of Fort The Homeplace 1850 century harvest activities and Donelson. Phone: 800-525-7077 or 615-460-1221 trades such as applebutter making, Fort Donelson National Battlefield E-mail: [email protected] candle-dipping, and cider pressing. Dover, TN Website: The Homeplace 1850 Phone: 931-232-5706 or 931-232-5348 www2.lbl.org/lbl/HPGate.html Phone: 931-232-5706 or 270-924-2020 Ceremony Honoring Veterans E-mail: [email protected] May 30 Website: National Cemetery www2.lbl.org/lbl/HPGate.html

Dover, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 110 © 2003 The Notgrass Company November/December Cumberland City Ferry Stewart State Forest One of the few remaining ferries in Highway 49 Christmas 1850 Tennessee. Phone: 931-232-7206 After Thanksgiving through the Highway 46 New Year Cumberland City, TN Surrender House/Dover Hotel The farm women prepare 19th- Confederate General Simon B. century foods for purchase. Cumberland Fossil Plant Bucker surrendered Fort Donelson The Homeplace 1850 The largest coal-fired steam plant and 13,000 troops to Union Phone: 800-525-7077 or 615-460-1221 in the U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant here on E-mail: [email protected] 815 Cumberland City Road February 16, 1862. Website: Cumberland City, TN Petty Street www2.lbl.org/lbl/HPGate.html Phone: 931-827-6000 Dover, TN

Phone: 931-232-5706 Dover Cemetery Used by early settlers as early as 1775. Trail of Tears

Places Forrest and Church Streets National Historic Trail

Barkley Reservoir Dover, TN In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Wildlife Management Area Phone: 931-232-8290 Cherokees were forced to leave their homes in the southeastern Phone: 615-781-6622 Fort Donelson National Battlefield states and move to the territory Cross Creeks and Cemetery that would become Oklahoma. National Wildlife Refuge Site of an important 1862 Civil Today highways that closely follow A primary wintering area for War battle. General Ulysses S. the trail are marked with official migratory waterfowl and a nest Grant received his nickname markers, and historic sites lie along area for bald eagles. "Unconditional Surrender" at the the trail. Contact the National Park 643 Wildlife Road Surrender House following this Service and the local Chamber of Dover, TN 37058 battle. Gun emplacements still Commerce for specific Phone: 931-232-7477 or 931-232-7495 stand over the river, and over six information.Long Distance Trails Fax: 931-232-5958 hundred Union soldiers are buried Group Office, Santa Fe Website: at Fort Donelson National National Park Service southeast.fws.gov/crosscreeks/ Cemetery. Free admission. P.O. Box 728 Highway 79 West Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 P.O. Box 434 Phone: 505-988-6888 Dover, TN 37058 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 931-232-5706 or 931-232-5348 Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ Website: www.nps.gov/fodo tearsnht.html

The Homeplace 1850 This working farm, including 14 Visitor Information original structures, recreates an 19th-century lifestyle. Stewart County Area Land Between the Lakes Chamber of Commerce Phone: 931-232-5706 or 270-924-2020 P.O. Box 147 E-mail: [email protected] Dover, TN 37058 Website: Phone: 931-232-8290

www2.lbl.org/lbl/HPGate.html Fax: 931-232-4973

Keel Spring Nature Trail The Tennessee River Runs Through It Land Between the Lakes Highlights the scenic, cultural, Outdoor recreation area with historic, and recreational historical and scenic sites, a attractions and events around the planetarium, an elk and bison Tennessee River. Free brochure. prairie, and trails. Paris-Henry County 100 Van Morgan Drive Chamber of Commerce Golden Pond, KY 42211 2508 East Wood Street Phone: 800-525-7077 or 270-924-2000 Paris, TN 38242 Website: www2.lbl.org/lbl/ Phone: 800-345-1103

Rice House Church Street Dover, TN Phone: 931-232-6457

July November Events Folklife Festival Airborne Memorabilia Old-Time Jam Sessions Demonstrations of traditional skills (Paratrooper) Show Friday nights and crafts, traditional games and Sponsored by the Appalachian Anderson Log House contests, old-time music, storytelling, chapter of the 82nd Airborne Blountville, TN and more. Free admission. Division Association. Phone: 423-323-5686 or 423-323-7690 Warrior's Path State Park Fort Henry Mall February Kingsport, TN Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-239-6786 or 423-239-8531 Phone: 423-968-2755 Tennessee Literary Festival Website: Kingsport Public Library www.state.tn.us/environment/ Tellabration Weekend before Thanksgiving Kingsport, TN parks/warrior/events.htm Phone: 423-229-9489 Participants around the world Fun Fest gather in their communities for a April Concerts, family activities, and more. time of storytelling.

Spring Festival Kingsport, TN Bristol, TN/VA Seminars and guided hikes on Phone: 800-743-5282 or 423-392-8820 Phone: 540-669-8358 E-mail: [email protected] topics such as wildflowers, Fun Fest Farm Fest Website: www.tellabration.org tracking, astronomy, stream life, Exchange Place geology, and trees. Free Kingsport, TN December admission. Phone: 423-288-6071 Warrior's Path State Park 1791 Candlelight Tours Kingsport, TN Raid on the Watauga Rocky Mount Living Museum Phone: 423-239-6786 or 423-239-8531 Rocky Mount Living Museum Piney Flats, TN Website: Piney Flats, TN Phone: 423-538-7396 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 423-538-7396 1818 Candlelight Christmas parks/warrior/events.htm September Netherland Inn Spring Garden Fair Kingsport, TN Exchange Place Fall Folk Arts Festival Phone: 423-246-6262 Kingsport, TN Exchange Place Phone: 423-288-6071 Kingsport, TN Christmas at Allandale

Phone: 423-288-6071 Kingsport, TN May Phone: 423-229-9422 Old Time Fiddlers and Triangle Jazz Party Bluegrass Festival Christmas in the Country & Classic jazz and Big Band Netherland Inn Yule Log Burning performances. Kingsport, TN Exchange Place Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-247-9181 Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-578-6600 Phone: 423-288-6071 October Wildflower Days First Night Kingsport Bays Mountain Park Harvest Happenings December 31 Kingsport, TN Rocky Mount Living Museum Music, games, and family activities. Phone: 423-229-9447 Piney Flats, TN Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-538-7396

Appalachian Trade Festival Phone: 423-246-2017 or 423-224-2358

Appalachian Fairgrounds Sassafras Tours Kingsport, TN Free admission. Phone: 423-247-7965 Exchange Place Places Kingsport, TN Wooly Days Phone: 423-288-6071 Appalachian Caverns Rocky Mount Living Museum Guided tours available. Piney Flats, TN 420 Cave Hill Road Phone: 423-538-7396 Blountville, TN 37617

Phone: 423-323-2337

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 112 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Allandale Mansion Country Music Monument H. P. King Co. Antique furnishings, Oriental rugs, & Mural Established in 1899, this was the first and fine art paintings. Tours Ralph Peer made the first complete department store in the available by appointment. commercial country music area. Used for other purposes now, it 4444 West Stone Drive recordings here in 1927. A mural still has an old Warner elevator. Kingsport, TN 37660 depicting these recording sessions State Street Phone: 423-229-9422 is located a few blocks to the west. Bristol, TN/VA 800 State Street Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium Bristol, TN Highlander Dinner Theatre In addition to outdoor activities, this Dinner theatre with a Scottish Phone: 423-989-4850 park features a Nature Interpretive theme, food, and entertainment. Center with natural history, early Downtown Kingsport 3520 Highway 75 pioneering, ancient civilizations, and Heritage Trail Kingsport, TN 37660 space science exhibits; and a Features 29 historic sites, including Phone: 423-323-1468 or 423-323-8605 planetarium theater. the Gem Theatre and railroad 853 Bays Mountain Park Road buildings. Free brochure. Kingsport Art Guild Kingsport, TN 37660 140 West Main Street Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-392-8420 Phone: 423-229-9447 Kingsport, TN E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-246-6550 Kingsport Fine Arts Center

Birthplace of Country Music E. W. King House 200 East Church Circle Museum & Tour Built from 1903-1910, this house Kingsport, TN 37660 Phone: 423-246-9351 Bristol Mall features period furnishings and a 500 Gate City Highway museum of Bristol. A marker in the Kingsport Greenbelt P.O. Box 216 front yard indicates that much of Nine miles of pedestrian and Bristol, TN 37620 the planning for the Revolutionary bicycle trails. Free admission. Phone: 423-990-2262 or 540-645-0035 War Battle of King's Mountain was 1550 Fort Henry Drive

done at this location. Kingsport, TN Bristol Art Guild & Gallery Anderson Street 126 Johnson Street Phone: 423-229-9457 Bristol, TN Bristol, VA Kingsport Guild of Ballet Phone: 540-669-6711 Estelle Carmack Bandy Kingsport, TN Children's Museum Bristol Ballet Company Phone: 423-378-3967 Jackson Street 628 Cumberland Street Kingsport, TN 37660 Kingsport Inter City Ballet Bristol, VA 24201 Phone: 423-245-7211 Kingsport, TN Phone: 540-669-6051 Phone: 423-323-2474 Exchange Place Bristol Caverns Craft demonstrations and Kingsport Renaissance Center Used by Indians as an attack and household activities at several Features an art gallery, art classes escape route, this cavern features buildings illustrate life in the mid- and workshops, and performances an underground river and 1800s. Exchange Place was a stage by the Kingsport Symphony stalactites and stalagmites. stop and a place for people to Orchestra and Chorus and others. 1157 Bristol Caverns Highway exchange state currencies. Free Free admission to gallery. Bristol, TN 37620 admission. 1200 East Center Street Phone: 423-878-2011 Kingsport, TN 37660 4812 Orebank Road Kingsport, TN 37664 Phone: 423-392-8420 or 423-392-8423 Bristol Sign An historic landmark spread over Phone: 423-288-6071 Kingsport Theatre Guild State Street, the dividing line Fairmount Area Walking Tour Kingsport, TN between Virginia and Tennessee. Learn about some of the prominent Phone: 423-392-8427 Bristol, TN/VA settlers who came to Bristol around Long Island of the Holston Confederate Soldier Memorial 1900 and the homes they built. Daniel Boone began the Wilderness Originally erected in 1920. 822 Georgia Avenue Road here. Free admission. Cumberland Street Bristol, TN Netherland Inn Road Phone: 888-989-3343 or 423-989-3343 Bristol, TN/VA Kingsport, TN

King College Meadowview Regional Art Hosts galleries of art by students Collection and other local artists. More than 300 pieces from artists 1350 King College Road in East Tennessee and Southwest Bristol, TN 37620 Virginia. Free admission. Phone: 423-968-1187 1901 Meadowview Parkway Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-578-6600 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 113 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Morril's Cave State Natural Area Stacy Grayson Memorial at Virginia Intermont College Steel Creek Park Fine Arts Gallery Netherland Inn/Boatyard Complex Nature center, hiking trails, and Features exhibits by national and Museum outdoor activities. regional artists, and theatre and This 19th-century stagecoach stop 80 Lake Shore Drive dance performances. has been restored and decorated Bristol, TN 1013 Moore Street with period furnishings. The Log Phone: 423-989-4850 or 423-989-5616 Bristol, VA 24201 Cabin Children's Museum and Phone: 540-669-6101 schoolhouse behind the inn Stone Castle illustrate a child's world during the This stadium is designed in Warrior's Path Riding Stables 18th and 19th centuries. medieval Gothic architecture. Guided trail rides. 2140 Netherland Inn Road Bristol Municipal Stadium 490 Hemlock Park Kingsport, TN 37660 Corner of Weaver Pike and Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-246-6262 or 423-247- Edgemont Avenue Phone: 423-323-8543

3211 Bristol, TN Warrior's Path State Park Overmountain Victory Tennessee Ernie Ford Home Named for a nearby war and National Historic Trail Features memorabilia from Ford's trading path used by the Follows the path that the career. Free admission. Cherokees. Overmountain Men took on their 1223 Anderson Street Hemlock Road way to the Battle of King's Mountain, Bristol, TN 37620 P.O. Box 5026 South Carolina, in 1780. Phone: 423-989-4850 or 540-466-3631 Kingsport, TN 37663

Phone: 423-543-5808 Phone: 423-239-8531 Tennessee Wilderness Road Fax: 423-239-4982 Paramount Center for the Arts A route through northeast Website: First opened in 1931, this art-deco Tennessee that highlights the www.state.tn.us/environment/ movie house has been renovated natural beauty and history of the parks/warrior/ into a performing arts center. It region. Free brochure. houses a Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Phone: 865-828-5927 Free admission for tours. Fax: 865-828-5212 Visitor Information 518 State Street E-mail: [email protected] Bristol, TN 37620 Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/ Kingsport Convention and

Phone: 423-968-7456 or 423-968-4977 Visitors Bureau Theatre Bristol 151 East Main Street Rocky Mount Living Museum Offers comedies, musicals, and P.O. Box 1403 William Cobb constructed this house tragedies, plus workshops for all Kingsport, TN 37660 around 1772, and it served as the ages. Phone: 800-743-5282 or 423-392-8820 territorial capitol from 1790 to 1792. 512 State Street E-mail: [email protected] Costumed guides interpret frontier Bristol, TN 37620 Website: www.kingsportchamber.org life in this living history museum. Phone: 423-968-4977 200 Hyder Hill Road Bristol Area P.O. Box 160 Train Station Chamber of Commerce Piney Flats, TN 37686-7396 Built in 1902. 20 Volunteer Parkway Phone: 888-538-1791 or 423-538-7396 State Street Bristol, VA 37620 Fax: 423-538-1086 Bristol, TN/VA Phone: 423-989-4850 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Up Against the Wall Gallery Website: www.bristolchamber.org The Rustic Shop & Original prints from renowned Cooper's Gem Mine artists, framing, pottery, and Arts Council of Greater Kingsport Specialty crafts and gem mining. specialty jewelry. Free admission. Kingsport, TN 1138 Big Hollow Road 316 East Market Street Phone: 423-392-8421

Blountville, TN Kingsport, TN Phone: 423-246-7210 Northeast Tennessee

Phone: 423-323-5680 Tourism Association Shelby Street Station Veteran's Memorial 109 Fox Avenue The former Bristol Post Office, Life-size statues, a water fountain, P.O. Box 415 built in 1900. an eternal flame, and individual Jonesborough, TN 37659 Shelby Street memorials remember those who Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 have served in the U.S. Armed Bristol, TN Website: www.netta.com Forces. Free admission. South Holston Dam Cumberland Square Park Website: One of the largest dams in the world. Cumberland and Lee Streets The City of Kingsport Off Highway 421 Bristol, VA 24201 kingsport.tricon.net Bristol, TN Phone: 540-645-7275

Phone: 423-878-6931

Daniel Smith Days Events Places 18th-century festival. Free April admission. Bledsoe Creek State Park Rock Castle 400 Zieglers Fort Road Spring Musical Hendersonville, TN Gallatin, TN 37807-1727 Portland, TN Phone: 615-824-0502 Phone: 615-452-3706 Phone: 615-325-9032 Website: Candlelight Cemetery Tour www.state.tn.us/environment/ Hendersonville Arts Festival Costumed actors portray people Hendersonville, TN parks/bledsoe/ from Sumner County area history Phone: 822-0789 who are buried in the cemetery. Bucksnort Trail Ride, Inc. Historic Cragfont Pilgrimage Gallatin City Cemetery Guided horse rides. Brings your Tour of historic sites and homes. Gallatin, TN own horse.

Phone: 615-451-3738 920 Clearview Road Phone: 615-452-7070 Cottonwood, TN 37048 Wynnewood Autumn Harvest Pilgrimage of Homes Phone: 615-325-2827 Last Saturday Wynnewood Trousdale Place - Headquarters Castalian Springs, TN Cold Springs School and Museum Gallatin, TN Phone: 615-452-5463 This 1857 one-room schoolhouse features a collection of books, old Phone: 615-452-5648 Upper Sumner Fall Color Tour photographs, and Civil War and Enjoy the fall colors and the May U.S. Bicentennial memorabilia. historical and natural stops. Free admission. Strawberry Festival Phone: 615-230-8474 Portland, TN Portland, TN Phone: 615-325-9032 November Phone: 615-325-9032

Summer Tellabration Cragfont Weekend before Thanksgiving This home, built around 1800 by Unique Summer Koncerts Participants around the world General James Winchester, served Monthaven Mansion gather in their communities for a as a political and business center Hendersonville, TN time of storytelling. during the 19th century. It is fully Phone: 615-822-0789 restored and furnished. Gallatin, TN June Phone: 615-452-0709 or 615-452- Highway 25 8592 P.O. Box 73 Golden Fleece Festival E-mail: [email protected] Castalian Springs, TN 37031 Craftsmen, reenactors, and musicians Website: www.tellabration.org Phone: 615-452-7070 provide a look at Sumner County's past with craft demonstrations, December First Presbyterian Church contests, and music. Hendersonville Christmas Built 1836. Gallatin, TN Pilgrimage 167 West Main Street Phone: 615-451-3738 Gallatin, TN First Sunday Phone: 615-452-3151 Rose Mont Renaissance Hendersonville, TN Music, food, historic displays, and Phone: 615-824-2818 Flick's Exotic Petting Farm antique and reproduction furniture Historical Sites Open House A hands-on petting farm with auctions. Free admission. Holiday decorations, refreshments, primates, birds, reptiles, camels, Gallatin, TN and music at Trousdale Place, and "regular" farm animals. Call for Phone: 615-451-9541 Cragfont, Rose Mont, and an appointment. 315 Old Highway 31E #3 Rock Castle Big Band Concert Wynnewood. Phone: 615-841-3452 Hendersonville, TN In and around Gallatin, TN Phone: 615-824-0502 Phone: 615-452-5463 Fort Bledsoe Historic Park

Self-guided walking trail, including Wynnewood Celebration Isaac Bledsoe's 1780 Revolutionary Wynnewood War fort site, original 1786 Avery Castalian Springs, TN Trace, 1790 Parker's Cabin, 1780 Phone: 615-452-5463 cemetery, natural spring, the Cavern October of the Skulls. Free admission. Highway 25 Main Street Festival Castalian Springs, TN Gallatin, TN Phone: 615-452-5463 Phone: 615-452-4000 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 115 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Gallatin Old Hickory Sumner County Playhouse This town contains businesses, Wildlife Management Area Comedies, dramas, musicals, and homes, churches, and civic building Phone: 615-444-6673 classical performances. dating back to the 1820s. Self- 260 West Main Street guided tour brochures are available Palace Theater Hendersonville, TN The oldest existing silent movie from the Chamber of Commerce. Phone: 615-264-8999 theater in Tennessee, now hosting Phone: 615-452-5692 performances and recitals. Taylor Hollow State Natural Area Gallatin Steam Plant 146 North Water Street Trinity Music City USA Wildlife Management Area Gallatin, TN This major production facility of Phone: 615-781-6622 Phone: 615-452-5692 the Trinity Broadcasting Network includes the original estate and The Hancock House Path of the Longhunter Tour memorial gardens of Conway Originally a stagecoach stop and Tour four historic sites and learn Twitty, and a virtual reality toll house on the Avery Trace, and about Middle Tennessee history in theater. Free admission. now used as a bed & breakfast. the late 1700s and early 1800s. One Music Village Blvd. Tours available by appointment. This self-driving tour starts in Hendersonville, TN 37075 2144 Nashville Pike Goodlettsville and ends near Phone: 615-826-9191 Gallatin, TN Gallatin. It includes Mansker's Phone: 615-452-8431 Station and the Bowen House, Rock Trousdale Place Castle, Wynnewood, and Cragfont. William Trousdale, governor of Hazel Path Goodlettsville Chamber of Commerce Tennessee and U.S. Ambassador to Built in 1857 by Daniel Smith 100 South Main Street Brazil, lived in this house, which was Donelson, grandson of Revolutionary Goodlettsville, TN 37072 built in 1813. Contains Trousdale War soldier Daniel Smith. Phone: 615-859-7979 family furniture and a Confederate 105 Hazel Path library. Call before visiting. Hendersonville, TN Randy's Record Shop 183 West Main Street Phone: 615-822-2008 Operating from 1946-1991, this was Gallatin, TN 37066 the world's largest mail-order record Phone: 615-452-5648 or 615-452-1404 Hendersonville company. Founder Randy Wood also Presbyterian Church created the Dot Record label which U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Built in 1869. The cemetery recorded artists such as Johnny Visitor Center contains the graves of many Maddox, Gale Storm, and Pat Boone. Displays here offer an interactive Confederate soldiers. 321 Nashville Pike history of Old Hickory Lake and 172 West Main Street Gallatin, TN the navigational lock and dam Hendersonville, TN system. Free admission. Rock Castle Phone: 615-824-8604 Rockland Recreation Area Built around 1790, this was one of 5 Power Plant Road Johnny Cash Museum the earliest stone masonry houses Hendersonville, TN 700 Johnny Cash Parkway built west of the Appalachian Phone: 615-822-4846 Hendersonville, TN 37075 Mountains. The General Daniel Phone: 615-824-5110 Smith who lived here produced a Westmoreland Library & state map and is credited with Historic Museum Key Stewart Methodist Church naming the state. Exhibits on the history and Established in 1876. 139 Rock Castle Lane developments of Westmoreland, 166 North Blythe Avenue Hendersonville, TN 37075 plus a special genealogy section on Gallatin, TN Phone: 615-824-0502 the families of upper Sumner Phone: 615-451-1705 County. Free admission. Rose Mont 2305 Epperson Springs Road Monthaven Mansion A Greek Revival house built Westmoreland, TN This mid-1800s mansion features between 1836 and 1842. Open by local handicrafts and rotating Phone: 615-644-2026 appointment. Free admission. exhibits of photography, crafts, and 810 South Water Wynnewood other visual arts. Free admission. Gallatin, TN Constructed in 1828, this is perhaps 1154 West Main Street Phone: 615-452-4483 the largest log structure built in Hendersonville, TN Tennessee. It served as a Sumner County Museum Phone: 615-822-0789 stagecoach inn and later as a Numerous historic displays of home mineral springs resort. Old Hickory Lake furnishings, automobiles, fossils, 210 Old Highway 25 Hendersonville, TN and more. Box 210 Phone: 615-822-4846 183 West Main Street Castalian Springs, TN 37031 Gallatin, TN 37066 Phone: 615-452-5463 Phone: 615-451-3738

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 116 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Gallatin Chamber of Commerce Portland Chamber of Commerce Visitor Information 118 West Main Street 111 South Broadway Sumner County Tourism Gallatin, TN 37066 P.O. Box 387 118 West Main Street Phone: 615-452-4000 Portland, TN 37148 P.O. Box 957 Hendersonville Westmoreland City Hall Gallatin, TN 37066 Chamber of Commerce 1001 Park Street Phone: 888-301-7866 or 615-230-8474 101 Wessington Place Westmoreland, TN 37186 Fax: 615-230-9963 Hendersonville, TN 37075 Phone: 615-644-3382 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 615-824-2818 Website: www.sumnertn.org White House Area Chamber of Commerce 414 Highway 76 White House, TN 37188 Phone: 615-672-3937

TIPTON COUNTY - COVINGTON

Heritage Day Festival South Main Historic District Events Last Sunday Fifty-two homes and other June Folk art demonstrations, historic structures. Free admission. home tours, and more. 622 South Main Walking Horse Show Covington, TN Covington, TN Third Thursday Phone: 901-476-0426 Phone: 901-476-9727 Saddle Club Arena

Covington, TN Tipton County Museum Phone: 901-476-6671 Features a Veterans Memorial and Places a nature center with a wildlife

Fall sanctuary. Free admission. Glenn Springs Lake Day in the Park Named after an early 20th-century 751 Bert Johnson Avenue Craft booths, food vendors, children's resort and health spa near this site, Covington, TN 38109 activities, antique cars, and a softball Glenn Springs provides fishing for Phone: 901-476-0242 several types of fish. E-mail: [email protected] game. Free admission. Atoka Hall Field Grimes Road Atoka, TN Drummonds, TN Visitor Information

Phone: 901-837-5300 or 901-837-0400 Lower Hatchie Covington/Tipton County Mason Jubilee National Wildlife Refuge Chamber of Commerce Saturday before Labor Day (even years) Located along the Hatchie River, P.O. Box 683 Music, food, crafts, and games. next to the Mississippi River, this Covington, TN 38019 Mason, TN refuge has ducks, geese, raptors, Phone: 901-476-9727 Phone: 901-294-3525 shorebirds, wading birds, and E-mail: [email protected] neotropical migrants. August 1505 Sand Bluff Road South Tipton Brighton Reunion Ripley, TN 38063 Chamber of Commerce Live entertainment, food, and games. Phone: 901-635-7621 or 901-287-0650 1461 Munford - Atoka Avenue Brighton, TN Fax: 901-635-7621 P.O. Box 1198 Phone: 901-476-8661 E-mail: [email protected] Munford, TN 38058 Website: Phone: 901-837-4600 September southeast.fws.gov/lowerhatchie/ The Great River Road Celebrate Munford The Ruffin Theater Promotes historic sites and Entertainment, arts, and crafts. Art deco theater built in 1937 hosts attractions along the Mississippi Free admission. community plays, the Germantown from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Munford, TN Symphony Orchestra, and other Free brochure. Phone: 901-837-0171 or 901-837- performances. Mississippi River Parkway 4600 East Pleasant Commission

Covington, TN P.O. Box 59159 Phone: 901-476-9727 Minneapolis, MN 55459-8207 Phone: 612-212-2560

E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.mississippi-river.com

Hartsville Events Visitor Information Victorian buildings and a gazebo Fall surround the County Courthouse, Hartsville-Trousdale County and the city has several old homes. Chamber Cruzin' the Cumberland Phone: 615-374-9243 200 East Main, Suite 11 The Music City Queen Riverboat Hartsville, TN 37074 Living History Museum of provides dinner and sightseeing Phone: 615-374-9243 cruises. Trousdale County Fax: 615-374-1100 Phone: 615-374-9243 A complete farm with a furnished house, barn, corn crib, and Website: December outhouse shows how a 1930s Hartsville & Trousdale County Christmas Tour of Homes tobacco farming family lived. Free www.trousdalecounty.net Includes a light supper and admission with appointment. transportation. 101 White Oak Street Hartsville, TN Hartsville, TN

Phone: 615-374-9243 Phone: 615-374-9243

Old Hickory Wildlife Management Area and Places Lock 5 Refuge

Phone: 615-444-6673 Battle of Hartsville Driving Tour Trace the route of General John Trousdale County Museum Hunt Morgan's cavalry raid during A restored depot houses Civil War the Civil War. Free brochure. artifacts, farming tools, clothing, 240 Broadway photos, books, and antiques. Free Hartsville, TN admission. Phone: 615-374-9243 White Oak Street and Broadway Hartsville, TN Phone: 615-374-9243

UNICOI COUNTY - ERWIN

Apple Orchards Erwin National Fish Hatchery Events Orchards in Unicoi County grow a The U.S. Department of the Interior April variety of apples. Fish and Wildlife Service established UT Agricultural Extension Service this hatchery in 1897. It produces Fiddlers and Fiddleheads Festival 100 Main Street rainbow trout and fertilized eggs that Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens Erwin, TN are shipped to other hatcheries, Unicoi, TN Phone: 423-743-9584 research facilities, and other Phone: 423-743-8799 countries. Free admission.

Cherokee National Forest 520 Federal Hatchery Road October Ask about the Unaka Mountain Erwin, TN 37650 Apple Festival Driving Tour. Phone: 423-743-4712 First week. Free admission. Unaka Ranger District Erwin, TN 1205 North Main Street Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens Erwin, TN 37650 A covered bridge entrance leads to Phone: 423-743-3000 Phone: 423-743-4452 perennial wildflower gardens. The

Fax: 423-743-0322 gallery features prints, wood Places carvings, and historical artifacts. 21 Covered Bridge Lane Appalachian Trail Route 2, Box 112 Appalachian Trail Conference Unicoi, TN 37602 799 Washington Street Phone: 800-952-6043 or 423-743-8799 P.O. Box 807 E-mail: [email protected] Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0807 Phone: 304-535-6331 Fax: 304-535-2667 Website: www.atconf.org

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 118 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Nolichucky River Unicoi County Heritage Museum Visitor Information Raft the white water and enjoy the Built around 1903, the ten-room house high cliffs. that now contains the county museum Unicoi County Phone: 423-743-3000 first served as the residence for the Chamber of Commerce superintendent of the fish hatchery at 100 South Main Avenue Rick Murray - Woodturner Erwin. Explore numerous exhibits P.O. Box 713 Watch the creation on a lathe of about historical clothing, furniture, Erwin, TN 37650 one-of-a-kind bowls, vases, and household goods, and other Phone: 423-743-3000 lamps. memorabilia. A one-room schoolhouse Fax: 423-743-0942 Jones Branch Road also sits nearby, and a cassette E-mail: [email protected] Box 1 narration is available for a thirty- Website: www.valleybeautiful.org Erwin, TN 37650 minute hike. Groups can arrange Phone: 423-743-6868 or 423-743-3000 Northeast Tennessee special tours. Stegall's Pottery & 1715 Old Johnson City Highway Tourism Association 109 Fox Avenue Crafts Gallery P.O. Box 317 P.O. Box 415 Tours of the work space available. Erwin, TN 37650 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Free admission. Phone: 423-743-9449 or 423-743-9552 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 200 Nolichucky Avenue Unicoi County Waterfalls Website: www.netta.com Erwin, TN 37650 This area has several scenic waterfalls. Phone: 423-743-3227 Phone: 423-743-3000

UNION COUNTY - MAYNARDVILLE

August Events Chuck Swan Bluegrass Music Festival Wildlife Management Area April Local bands perform bluegrass, Phone: 423-278-3248 Big Ridge Wildflower Walks gospel, and old-time country music. Norris Lake & Dam See wildflowers such as trout lily, Big Ridge State Park Phone: 865-426-7461 hepatica, rue anemone, and more. Maynardville, TN Big Ridge State Park Phone: 865-992-5523 Roy Acuff Maynardville, TN Website: Union Museum & Library Phone: 865-992-5523 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Free admission. Website: parks/bigridge/events.htm Highway 33 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Maynardville, TN September parks/bigridge/events.htm Phone: 865-992-2136 Falling Water Festival E-mail: [email protected] June Third weekend Tennessee Wilderness Road Free Fishing Day Bluegrass, country, and gospel A route through northeast Junior Fish-A-Thon music; country cooking; and more. Tennessee that highlights the Participants must be 15 and under. Falling Water Farm natural beauty and history of the Prizes awarded. 706 Archer Road region. Free brochure. Big Ridge State Park Luttrell, TN 37779 Phone: 865-828-5927 Maynardville, TN Phone: 865-992-8418 Fax: 865-828-5212 Phone: 865-992-5523 October E-mail: [email protected] Website: Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/ www.state.tn.us/environment/ Octoberfest parks/bigridge/events.htm Country music, antique cars, and more. Sharps Chapel, TN SummerFest Visitor Information Phone: 865-992-3061 Music, historical and fine arts exhibits, and more. Union County Executive Maynardville, TN Places Courthouse P.O. Box 278

Big Ridge State Park Maynardville, TN 37808 1015 Big Ridge Road Phone: 865-992-3061 Maynardville, TN 37807-1727 Phone: 865-992-5523 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/bigridge/ Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 119 © 2003 The Notgrass Company VAN BUREN COUNTY - SPENCER

Trail of Tears Events Visitor Information National Historic Trail July In 1838 and 1839, thousands of Greater Van Buren-Spencer County Cherokees were forced to leave Chamber of Commerce Mountain Homecoming their homes in the southeastern P.O. Box 814 Second Saturday states and move to the territory Spencer, TN 38585 Spencer, TN that would become Oklahoma. Phone: 931-881-5494 Phone: 931-946-7033 Today highways that closely follow E-mail: [email protected] September the trail are marked with official Website: www.vanburenchamber.com markers, and historic sites lie along Mountaineer Folk Festival the trail. Contact the National Park Upper Cumberland Handmade crafts, traditional Service and the local Chamber of Tourism Association mountain music, and pioneer skills Commerce for specific information. P.O. Box 2411 demonstrations. Long Distance Trails Cookeville, TN 38502 Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Group Office, Santa Fe Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Pikeville, TN National Park Service Phone: 423-881-5708 or 423-881-5298 P.O. Box 728 Website: Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 505-988-6888 parks/fallcrek/events.htm E-mail: [email protected] Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ October

tearsnht.html

Fall Colors Weekend Bicycle tours of the park, walks, hikes, and slide shows. Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Pikeville, TN Phone: 423-881-5708 or 423-881-5298 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/fallcrek/events.htm

Places

Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Fall Creek Falls, at 256-feet high, is the highest waterfall in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Three other waterfalls decorate the park, and the nature center contains natural and cultural history exhibits. Route 3 Box 300 Pikeville, TN 37367 Phone: 423-881-5298 Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/fallcrek/

Shockley House Inn A turn-of-the-century Victorian house used as a bed & breakfast. Corner of Spring and Sparta Spencer, TN 38585 Phone: 931-946-2565

Fall Creek Falls

Phone: 931-668-4444 Events Places Fax: 931-815-4444 April The Birthing Tree E-mail: As pioneers camped in and moved [email protected] Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage through this area, so many babies Website: FalconManor.com Rock Island State Park were born under this huge old tree Hubbard's Cave State Natural Area Rock Island, TN that it became known as the Phone: 931-686-2471 "birthing tree." Nurseries Website: Highway 70S Warren County is known as the www.state.tn.us/environment/ Across from River Park Hospital Nursery Capital of the World with parks/rockis/events.htm

McMinnville, TN over 450 growers cultivating more than 1500 varieties of ornamental May Black House plants. Call for information on Built in 1825 by Jesse Coffee, this is Aviation Day locations, hours, and specialties. the oldest brick house in Second weekend Phone: 931-473-3951 or 931-668-7322 McMinnville Airport McMinnville. Tours by Phone: 931-668-7050 appointment. Old Philadelphia Church McMinnville, TN Founded in 1805, this is sometimes May Day Celebration Phone: 931-668-5050 or 931-635-2443 considered the oldest Church of Third Saturday Christ in Tennessee. The building Black House Bone Cave State Natural Area is now used only for special McMinnville, TN Center Hill Lake meetings. (Note: The Rock Springs Phone: 931-668-5050 or 931-635-2443 Church of Christ near Celina, TN, Phone: 931-838-3125 June was also organized in 1805.) Go southwest from McMinnville Dottie West Music Fest on Highway 55; turn left on McMinnville, TN Vervilla Road; church is just past Phone: 931-473-6611 Bascom Cemetery on the left.

August Rock Island State Park 82 Beach Road Viola Valley Rock Island, TN 38581-4200 Homecoming and Festival Phone: 931-686-2471 Viola, TN Website: Phone: 931-635-2463 www.state.tn.us/environment/

"Fire on the Mountain" parks/rockis/

Gospel Concert Cumberland Caverns Trail of Tears Over 32 miles of cave feature Last weekend National Historic Trail various formations, large rooms, McMinnville, TN In 1838 and 1839, thousands of waterfalls, and an underground Phone: 931-668-2884 Cherokees were forced to leave Dining Ballroom. their homes in the southeastern September 1437 Cumberland Caverns Road states and move to the territory McMinnville, TN 37110 Warren County Fair that would become Oklahoma. Phone: 931-668-4396 Second full week Today highways that closely follow E-mail: [email protected] Includes a recreation of pioneer the trail are marked with official Website: McMinnville. markers, and historic sites lie along McMinnville, TN www.cumberlandcaverns.com the trail. Contact the National Park Phone: 931-668-4500 Driving Tour Service and the local Chamber of Commerce for specific information. October A tour guide is available from the Chamber of Commerce Long Distance Trails Lawnchair Jam highlighting historic and scenic Group Office, Santa Fe Second weekend areas in Warren County. National Park Service Rock Island State Park Phone: 931-473-6611 P.O. Box 728 Rock Island, TN Santa Fe, NM 87504-0728 Phone: 931-686-2471 Falcon Manor Phone: 505-988-6888 Website: Built in 1896, this Victorian E-mail: [email protected] www.state.tn.us/environment/ mansion now serves as a bed & Website: rosecity.net/tears/trail/ breakfast. Tours are available. parks/rockis/events.htm tearsnht.html 2645 Faulkner Springs Road McMinnville, TN 37110 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 121 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Upper Cumberland Visitor Information Tourism Association McMinnville-Warren County P.O. Box 2411 Chamber of Commerce Cookeville, TN 38502 110 South Court Square Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 P.O. Box 574 McMinnville, TN 37110 Phone: 931-473-6611 Fax: 931-473-4741 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.warrentn.com

WASHINGTON COUNTY - JONESBOROUGH

Music on the Square November Events (see June) Tellabration April August Weekend before Thanksgiving

Appalachian Antique Farm Show Appalachian Fair Participants around the world Appalachian Fairgrounds Country music, carnival activities, gather in their communities for a Gray, TN and more. time of storytelling. Johnson City, TN Phone: 423-477-3211 Gray, TN

Phone: 423-439-4297 May Music on the Square E-mail: [email protected]

Springfest (see June) Jonesborough, TN Phone: 423-257-3307 Johnson City, TN Quiltfest Website: www.tellabration.org

Phone: 423-461-8000 Jonesborough, TN

December Spring Blossom Steam Train September Specials Christmas in Olde Jonesborough Johnson City, TN Music on the Square Tour of homes, special museum (see June) displays, and more. Spring Doin's Civil War Reenactment Picnic in the Park Pops Concert Jonesborough, TN Johnson City, TN Phone: 423-753-5961 Free admission. Tipton-Haynes Historic Site Phone: 423-926-8742 Holiday Tour of Homes and Johnson City, TN Times of the Tiptons Churches Phone: 423-926-3631 Jonesborough, TN Tipton-Haynes Historic Site Johnson City, TN Phone: 423-753-5281 June Phone: 423-926-3631 Festival of Trees Music on the Square Friday evenings, June through October Hands On! Regional Museum September Johnson City, TN Fall Foliage Special Steam Train Courthouse Steps Phone: 423-434-4263 Excursion Jonesborough, TN Johnson City, TN Visions of Christmas Phone: 423-753-5401 Johnson City, TN Fall Doll Show & Sale July Jonesborough, TN

East Tennessee Toy Market Phone: 423-753-0022 Show and Sale Cranberry Festival Antique and collectible toys. Free admission. Limestone, TN Shady Valley Elementary School Phone: 423-257-6408 Shady Valley, TN Historic Jonesborough Days Phone: 423-739-5455 Celebration Teaching craftsmen, food, live National Storytelling Festival entertainment, clogging, and more. Jonesborough, TN Phone: 800-952-8392 or 423-753-2171 Free admission. Website: Jonesborough, TN www.storytellingfestival.net Phone: 423-753-5281

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 122 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Discover Jonesborough's Jonesborough Historic District Places Lanterns & Legends Tour Following restoration in 1969, B. Carrol Reece Museum Costumed characters share legends Tennessee's oldest town became Exhibits on regional history, pioneer at various stops on the evening the first Tennessee town on the settlement, and antique musical tour. Limited space and schedule. National Register of Historic instruments; memorabilia of the 117 Boone Street Places. Historic sites, distinctive Congressman B. Carroll Reece; and Jonesborough, TN 37659 architecture, and specialty shops exhibits of well-known and regional Phone: 423-753-1013 or 423-753-2903 give the town its flavor. (Carriage artists. Free admission. tours are available: 423-543-2511.) Discover Jonesborough's East Tennessee State University 117 Boone Street Times & Tales Tour Gilbreath Drive Jonesborough, TN 37659 Guided tour of historic homes and P.O. Box 70660 Phone: 423-753-1010 buildings with anecdotes and Johnson City, TN 37614-0660 storytelling. Reservations required. Jonesborough/Washington County Phone: 423-439-4392 117 Boone Street History Museum E-mail: [email protected] Jonesborough, TN 37659 Artifacts, maps, and historical Website: cass.etsu.edu/museum/ Phone: 800-400-4221 or 423-753-1013 information from Jonesborough's Beechwood Music Center two-hundred-year history. Guided First Abolitionist Country and bluegrass music and tours of the historic district dancing on Friday and Saturday Publications Marker available by reservation. nights. The Manumission Intelligencer and 117 Boone Street 441 Horton Highway The Emancipator were published Jonesborough, TN 37659 Fall Branch, TN from 1819 to 1820. They were the Phone: 423-753-1015 first publications in the United Phone: 423-348-7321 E-mail: [email protected] States devoted exclusively to the Website: jonesborough.tricon.net/ Buffalo Mountain Park abolition of slavery. museum.html Hiking trails and picnic sites. West Main Street Guided hikes available. Free Jonesborough, TN Museum at Mountain Home admission. East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN Hands On! Regional Museum Box 70693 Features hands-on exploration of Phone: 423-283-5815 Johnson City, TN 37614-0694 interactive exhibits, program, and Phone: 423-929-6252 or 423-461-7083 Center for Appalachian special events in the arts, sciences, Fax: 423-439-7025 Studies & Services and humanities. E-mail: [email protected] An educational, research, and 315 East Main Street community service center hosting Johnson City, TN 37601 Museum of Ancient Brick special exhibits, resources, and Phone: 423-434-4263 Located in the 16-sided office of events related to Appalachian E-mail: [email protected] General Shale Brick. Free culture and music. Website: www.handsonmuseum.org admission. East Tennessee State University 3211 North Roan Street Johnson City Area Arts Council & Johnson City, TN Johnson City, TN 37601 Fine Art Gallery Phone: 423-439-5348 Phone: 423-282-4661 Fax: 423-439-6340 Rotating gallery shows, summer Road Company E-mail: [email protected] performances, art workshops, and more. Free admission. Professional theatre group. Website: cass.etsu.edu 214 East Main Street Johnson City, TN Chester Inn Johnson City, TN Phone: 423-926-7726 The oldest frame structure in Phone: 423-928-8229 Slocumb Galleries Jonesborough, built in 1797. E-mail: [email protected] University art department Headquarters of Storytelling galleries. Free admission. Foundation International. Johnson City Ballet East Tennessee State University 116 West Main Street Johnson City, TN Bell Hall Jonesborough, TN Phone: 423-928-2429 Johnson City, TN Phone: 800-952-8392 or 423-753-2171 Johnson City Community Theatre Phone: 423-439-7078 or 423-439-4247 Fax: 423-913-8219 Johnson City, TN E-mail: Phone: 423-926-2542 Tennessee Wilderness Road [email protected] A route through northeast Website: Johnson City Symphony Orchestra Tennessee that highlights the www.storytellingfoundation.net Johnson City, TN natural beauty and history of the Phone: 423-926-8742 region. Free brochure. Phone: 865-828-5927 Fax: 865-828-5212 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.korrnet.org/cprcd/

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 123 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Tipton-Haynes Historic Site Winged Deer Johnson City Convention and John Tipton, a delegate to the 1776 Recreation area with hiking trails Visitors Bureau Constitutional Convention, built this and guided hikes and nature 603 East Market Street house in the 18th century. It has been programs. Free admission. P.O. Box 180 restored to reflect the period of Landon U.S. Highway 11 East Johnson City, TN 37605 Carter Haynes, a Confederate senator. Johnson City, TN Phone: 800-852-3392 or 423-461-8000 This site has ten historic buildings, a Phone: 423-283-5815 E-mail: [email protected] museum, a limestone cave, nature trails, Website: www.johnsoncitytn.com and an herb garden. Visitor Information 2620 South Roan Street Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association P.O. Box 225 Historic Jonesborough 109 Fox Avenue Johnson City, TN 37605 Visitors Center P.O. Box 415 Phone: 423-926-3631 117 Boone Street Jonesborough, TN 37659 Website: www.tipton-haynes.org Jonesborough, TN 37659 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Phone: 800-400-4221 or 423-753-1010 Website: www.netta.com

WAYNE COUNTY - WAYNESBORO

October Clifton Motel, Museum, and Events Putt-Putt Golf Pumpkin Harvest Festival Horseshoe Bend Festival Highway 114 Second weekend Arts and crafts, softball Clifton, TN 38425 Entertainment, crafts, and more. tournament, children's fishing Phone: 931-676-3632 Waynesboro, TN tournament, and more. Phone: 931-722-5458 Collinwood Railway Depot Clifton, TN The railroad and iron business Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277

provided growth to this town, April Places founded in 1913. The 1913 railroad depot still stands. Trail Ride Buffalo River Depot Street Third Saturday Canoeing and fishing. Collinwood, TN Travel through southern Wayne Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 County and lunch on the banks of Cumberland Presbyterian Church Butler Creek. Buffalo River Trail Ride Established in 1854, this is the Phone: 931-724-4885 Guided horse rides, canoeing, oldest church in Wayne County horseshoes, fishing, and more. that has been in continuous use. July Bring your own horse. Highway 13 North

4th of July Celebration Highway 13 Waynesboro, TN Includes a horseshoe tournament. P.O. Box 591 Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 Waynesboro, TN 38485 Waynesboro City Park Eagle Creek Phone: 931-722-9170 Waynesboro, TN Wildlife Management Area

Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 Clifton Phone: 615-781-6622

Founded in 1840, this town served September Natchez Trace Parkway as a center of the pig iron industry. Collinwood Old Timer's Day Several historic buildings still A late 18th- and early 19-th Labor Day weekend stand in the community. century, route from New Orleans to Country cooking, arts and crafts, Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 Tennessee and other areas. Historic antique car show, and helicopter sites, trails, and picnic areas are rides. Clifton Ferry located along the Natchez Trace, One of the last fully operational which passes through Wayne Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 ferries in Tennessee, it connects County. Labor Day Trail Ride Wayne and Decatur counties. 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway Trade fair, arts and crafts, plus Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 Tupelo, MS 38804

Bull-A-Rama and bull riding. Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 Phone: 931-724-4885 Website: www.nps.gov/natr/

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 124 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Tennessee Fitness Spa T. S. Stribling Museum Visitor Information Located on property that features a T. S. Stribling of Clifton addressed natural double-span bridge and several social issues in his early Wayne County other interesting formations. Tours 20th-century works. He received Chamber of Commerce are available. Accessibility is the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for The Wayne County Courthouse limited. Store. This museum contains Waynesboro, TN Natural Bridge Road pictures, newspaper articles, and Phone: 931-722-9022 Waynesboro, TN memorabilia from his life and Phone: 800-235-8365 career. Wayne County Tourism 300 East Water Street Phone: 931-722-3277 Tennessee River and Clifton, TN 38425 Treasures and More on Highway 64 Kentucky Lake Phone: 931-676-3678 Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277 This free brochure highlights Waynesboro attractions in five counties along Established in 1821, this county the Alabama border. seat was named for Revolutionary Phone: 931-722-9022 War General Anthony Wayne. Phone: 931-722-9022 or 931-722-3277

WEAKLEY COUNTY - DRESDEN

University of Tennessee Events Places Museum & Archives Spring Bean Switch Refuge An exhibit about school history and other exhibits. Free admission. Fiddlestick Extravaganza Wildlife Management Area University Street Greenfield, TN Phone: 731-423-5725 Martin, TN 38238 Phone: 731-235-3131 Big Cypress Tree Phone: 731-587-7545 Tennessee Iris Festival State Natural Park E-mail: [email protected] Dresden, TN Big Cypress was Tennessee's first Website: fmc.utm.edu/museum/

Phone: 731-364-3787 designated natural area. Visitors can observe many types of animals C. E. Weldon Public Library May throughout the year.The "big In addition to other resources, this library has a homeschooling center. Sharon Springtime Festival cypress" that gives the area its 100 Main Street Sharon, TN name was 175 feet tall, and the Martin, TN 38237 Phone: 731-364-3787 circumference at its base was 40 feet. Lightning struck the tree in Phone: 731-587-3148 September 1976, and it has deteriorated since. E-mail: [email protected] Website: weakley.aeneas.net/ Friends of Big Cypress Tree Festival 297 Big Cypress Road ~martin/library/ Third weekend Greenfield, TN 38230 Phone: 731-235-2700 Civil War encampment and re- West Tennessee Fax: 731-235-3810 enactments, arts and crafts, live Agricultural Pavilion Website: music, and nature shows. Hosts a variety of events www.state.tn.us/environment/ Big Cypress Tree State Natural Area throughout the year. parks/cypress/ Greenfield, TN Martin, TN Phone: 731-235-2700 Maness Swamp Refuge Phone: 731-587-7258 Website: Wildlife Management Area www.state.tn.us/environment/ Phone: 731-749-5587 parks/cypress/festival.htm Visitor Information Obion River Tator Town Special Wildlife Management Area Weakley County Chamber of Commerce Gleason, TN Phone: 731-749-5587 Phone: 731-648-5506 114 West Maple P.O. Box 67 Tennessee Soybean Festival Dresden, TN 38225 Music, food, quilt and car shows, E-mail: [email protected] and more. Free admission. Website: Martin, TN www.weakley.aeneas.net/chamber Phone: 731-587-4750 or 731-364-3787 E-mail: [email protected] Websites: Website: weakley.aeneas.net/ Martin, Tennessee ~martin/soybean/ weakley.aeneas.net/~martin/ Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 125 © 2003 The Notgrass Company WHITE COUNTY - SPARTA

Rock House Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness Events This house was built in the late Virgin Falls is formed by an Sparta Ampitheater 1830s as a "stage stop" for travelers. underground stream that emerges The city of Sparta sponsors two Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and from a cave, drops 110 feet, and free concerts here each month. several Tennessee governors stopped enters another cave. Overlooks and Liberty Square here. Hours limited. Free admission. other streams and caves are on this Sparta, TN U.S. Highway 70 trail maintained by the paper and Phone: 931-836-3248 or 931-836-8096 Sparta, TN forest product company Bowater. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 800-869-0761 or 931-836-3552 Trail maps are available from E-mail: [email protected] Bowater: June Bowater Calhoun Woodlands

Scott's Gulf Bicentennial Operations Martha White-Lester Flatt Wilderness Recreation Area Hometown Memorial Festival Calhoun, TN 37309-0188 Canoeing, kayaking, hunting, fishing, Website: Sparta, TN hiking, riding, climbing, and caving. www.bowater.com/paper.html Sparta, TN Phone: 800-869-0761 or 931-836-3552 Places E-mail: [email protected] Visitor Information

Bridgestone/Firestone South Carter Street Riverfront Park Sparta/White County Wildlife Management Area Trailhead for the greenway trail Chamber of Commerce The Caney Fork River meanders along the Calfkiller River. 16 West Bockman Way through this area that contains a South Carter and West Bockman Way Sparta, TN 38583 variety of wildlife. Free admission. Sparta, TN Phone: 800-869-0761 or 931-836-3552 Eastland Road Phone: 931-836-3248 Fax: 931-836-2216

Phone: 931-738-7306 or 931-836-3552 E-mail: [email protected] Sunset Rock Website: www.sparta-chamber.net Burgess Falls State Natural Area On U.S. Highway 70, east of Enjoy hiking past three Sparta, Sunset Rock offers a Upper Cumberland progressively larger waterfalls. panoramic view of the plateau and Tourism Association 4000 Burgess Falls Drive valley. P.O. Box 2411 Sparta, TN 38583-8456 Cookeville, TN 38502

Phone: 931-432-5312 Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088

Website: www.state.tn.us/environment/ parks/burgess/

Center Hill Lake Resource Manager Lancaster, TN 38569 Phone: 615-858-3125

WILLIAMSON COUNTY - FRANKLIN

April Heritage Foundation Town & Events Country Tour of Homes Main Street Festival March First weekend Fourth weekend Franklin, TN Irish Confederate Memorial Service Crafts, food, and entertainment in Lotz House Museum downtown Franklin. Free admission. Herb Fair Franklin, TN Franklin, TN Fourth weekend Phone: 615-791-6533 Phone: 615-791-9924 Carter House Website: www.historicfranklin.com Franklin, TN

Phone: 615-791-1861 May PearFest Franklin Rotary Club Rodeo Parade, arts and crafts, games, and Third weekend other activities. Jim Warren Park Brentwood, TN Franklin, TN

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 126 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Tennessee Renaissance Festival November Bowie Nature Park Each weekend Fifteen miles of multi-use trails, Live jousting, rides, games, Battle of Franklin Memorial March fishing lakes, and special programs. jugglers, and musicians on the Lotz House Museum Free admission. grounds of the Castle Gwynn. Franklin, TN Turn off Highway 100 onto Bowie Phone: 615-791-6533 2124 Newcastle Road Road Arrington-Triune, TN 37014 Anniversary of the Fairview, TN Phone: 615-395-9950 Battle of Franklin Phone: 615-799-5544 or 615-799-2484 E-mail: [email protected] November 30 E-mail: [email protected] Website: Carnton Plantation Brentwood members.tripod.com/tennrenfest/ Franklin, TN Contains numerous historic homes, Phone: 615-794-0903

Thompson Station Festival churches, and other buildings. Second weekend December Carnton Plantation Thompson Station, TN Christmas at Carnton This site includes an antebellum June Carnton Plantation mansion, smokehouse, slave cabin,

Franklin, TN springhouse, and a large Symphony on the Lawn Confederate cemetery. The house Second Sunday Phone: 615-794-0903 served as a hospital during the Carnton Plantation Carter House Battle of Franklin in 1864. Free Franklin, TN Candlelight Tour of Homes admission to cemetery. Phone: 615-794-0903 First weekend 1345 Carnton Lane July Includes historic homes, churches, Franklin, TN 37064 and other buildings. Phone: 615-794-0903 Bluegrass on the Harpeth Franklin, TN Website: www.carnton.org Franklin, TN Phone: 615-791-1861 Carter House Nolensville Charity Horse Show Dickens of a Christmas A museum, video, and guided tours Fourth Saturday Second weekend describe the Battle of Franklin, Recreation Center Carolers in Victorian costumes, which raged around this house in Nolensville, TN living windows of craft 1864. Over 1,000 bullet holes are demonstrations, strolling minstrels, August visible on the site. theater productions, and more. 1140 Columbia Avenue Summer Camp and Free admission. P.O. Box 555 Southern Folklife Festival Franklin, TN Franklin, TN 37065-0555 Carnton Plantation Phone: 615-791-9924 Phone: 615-791-1861 Franklin, TN Website: www.historicfranklin.com E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 615-794-0903 Website: www.carter-house.org

Military Artifacts Exhibit Cotton Port Places Carter House Built shortly after 1811 with Franklin, TN The Art Dept. handmade brick. The original Phone: 615-791-1861 Features the artwork of Marvin smokehouse is also on the site. Stalnaker with an emphasis on the Old Smyrna Road Franklin Jazz Festival Civil War period through 1900, Brentwood, TN First weekend including military and home scenes. Traditional jazz, Dixieland, and Big Crockett Park Free admission. Band. Free admission. Includes a farmhouse from the 1830s. 348 Main Street Franklin, TN Crockett Road Franklin, TN Phone: 615-790-7094 Brentwood, TN Phone: 615-794-0332 Website: www.historicfranklin.com Phone: 615-371-2208 E-mail: [email protected] October Fort Granger Boiling Springs Indian Mound Union troops built this earthen fort Fairview Nature Fest A ceremonial Indian mound dating using local labor. Nathan Bedford First weekend back perhaps 2,000 years. Forrest attacked it twice, and it Nature-related arts and crafts, Moores Lane played a role in the 1864 Battle of exhibits, workshops, food, and Brentwood, TN Franklin. Wooden walkways and entertainment. interpretive markers allow visitors Fairview Nature Park to learn about its history. Phone: 615-799-1101 or 615-799-2250 109 3rd Avenue South

Historic Brentwood Tour of Homes Franklin, TN Second weekend Phone: 615-791-3217

Brentwood, TN Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 127 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Franklin McPhail Office Peacock Hill Country Inn All 15 blocks of Franklin's historic Used by Union generals as a Horse trails. Bring your own horse. downtown feature restored 19th- headquarters, this office now serves 6994 Giles Hill Road century buildings. Free brochure. as a visitor information center. College Grove, TN 37046 Franklin, TN 209 East Main Phone: 800-327-6663 or 615-368-7727 Phone: 615-790-7094 or 615-794-1225 Franklin, TN Sneed Road Cedar Glade E-mail: Phone: 615-790-0378 [email protected] State Natural Area Midway Website: www.historicfranklin.com Tennessee Antebellum Trail In the 1800s, this house marked the Franklin Masonic Lodge commonly acknowledged midpoint A 90-mile self-driving tour of 54 Built in 1823, this is the first between Franklin and Nashville. historic sites, plantations, and Civil known three-story building in Lysander McGavock and five War battlefields in Davidson, Tennessee. generations of his descendants lived Williamson, and Maury counties. A 2nd Avenue across from City Hall in the house. free map guide and discounted tickets to the nine sites that have Franklin, TN Country Club Drive admission charges are available. Brentwood, TN Haley-Jaqueth 5700 Main Street Wildlife Management Area Mooreland Mansion P.O. Box 877 Phone: 615-781-6622 Construction on this house began Spring Hill, TN 37174

in 1838. Phone: 800-381-1865 or 931-486-9055 Heart and Hands 7100 Executive Center Drive Features artists producing crafts Brentwood, TN such as pots, baskets, dolls, Visitor Information paintings, and wood objects. Free Namaste Acres Barn, admission. Bed & Breakfast Williamson County Convention 342 Main Street Hiking and horseback trails. Bring and Tourism Bureau Franklin, TN your own horse. P.O. Box 156 Phone: 615-794-2537 5436 Leipers Creek Road Franklin, TN 37065 E-mail: [email protected] Franklin, TN 37064 Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 Phone: 615-791-0333 E-mail: [email protected] Holly Tree Gap Fax: 615-591-0665 Website: www.williamsoncvb.org A two-lane road between Murray E-mail: [email protected] Lane and Franklin Road that Downtown Franklin Association follows an old trail. Natchez Trace P.O. Box 807 Brentwood, TN National Scenic Trail Franklin, TN 37065-0807 Over twenty miles of trails Phone: 615-790-7094 James-Ben: Studio and Galleries including portions of the historic E-mail: Rotating exhibitions, a working Natchez Trace. [email protected] jewelry studio, and art classes and 5335 Old Highway 96 Website: www.historicfranklin.com demonstrations. Free admission. Franklin, TN 37064 335 A Main Street Brentwood Chamber of Commerce Phone: 615-790-9323 5211 Maryland Way, Suite 1080 Franklin, TN 37064 Fax: 615-790-9323 Phone: 615-791-8721 Brentwood, TN 37027 Website: www.nps.gov/natt/ Phone: 615-373-1595 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.citysearch.com/ Natchez Trace Parkway Fax: 615-373-8810 nas/jamesbengallery/ In the late 18th and early 19th Website: www.brentwood.org

centuries, settlers in the Ohio River Lotz House Museum Brentwood Historical Commission Valley were floating their produce P.O. Box 788 This museum features a large down the Mississippi River to New collection of artifacts from the Brentwood, TN 37027 Orleans. They sold their flatboats 1860s and 1870s relating to the for lumber, and the path now City of Fairview War Between the States and the known as the Natchez Trace P.O. Box 69 Old West. provided a good route back home. Fairview, TN 37062 1111 Columbia Avenue The introduction of steamboats Phone: 615-799-5544 or 615-799-2484 Franklin, TN 37064 encouraged return travel by river, Fax: 615-799-1383 Phone: 888-746-3898 or 615-791-6533 and the Trace lost much of its E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] traffic. Historic sites, trails, and Website: www.fairview-tn.org Website: www.lotzhouse.org picnic areas are located along the Website: Maryland Manor Natchez Trace, which passes through Williamson County. Williamson County Government Built in 1941-42 on a site that www.williamson-tn.org became a leading horse farm. 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway Maryland Way Tupelo, MS 38804 Brentwood, TN Phone: 800-356-3445 or 615-794-1225 Website: www.nps.gov/natr/ Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 128 © 2003 The Notgrass Company WILSON COUNTY - LEBANON

Middle Tennessee Native American Chapel Playhouse Events Indian Pow Wow The historic Picketts Chapel houses Cumberland University Music, dance, foods, and crafts from a community theatre group. Jazz Festival various tribes. Lebanon, TN Cumberland University Ward Agricultural Center Phone: 615-449-2787 Lebanon, TN Lebanon, TN David Campbell Gravesite Phone: 800-467-0562 or 615-444-2562 Phone: 615-444-1787 or 615-444-4899 Campbell served as a Captain of the March Watertown Hoedown Virginia militia at the Battle of Second Saturday King's Mountain in 1780 String Band Music Weekend Country, bluegrass, and gospel Leeville Church Cemetery Cedars of Lebanon State Park music. Fiddler's Grove Historical Village Lebanon, TN Watertown, TN Phone: 615-443-2769 This village consists of original Website: November buildings and buildings www.state.tn.us/environment/ reconstructed from original Tellabration parks/cedars/events.htm materials. Visit a general store, log Weekend before Thanksgiving cabin, doctor's office, jail, bank, post April Participants around the world office, granary, blacksmith shop, gather in their communities for a petting barn, church, school, and law Wildflower Pilgrimage time of storytelling. Tours and workshops highlight the office. Mt. Juliet, TN Ward Agricultural Center flowers and geology of the Cedar Phone: 615-449-8347 Glades. 945 East Baddour Parkway E-mail: [email protected] Lebanon, TN Cedars of Lebanon State Park Website: www.tellabration.org Phone: 615-443-2626 Lebanon, TN Phone: 615-443-2769 December Haley's Farm Website: Christmas in the Country A 100-year-old working farm. www.state.tn.us/environment/ First Saturday Group tours available by parks/cedars/events.htm appointment. Tour of old and new homes. Phone: 615-237-3318 May

Civil War Days Heydel Fine Arts Center Places Third Saturday Features theatrical and musical performances, as well as art Demonstrations and memorabilia Andrew Jackson Historical Trail displays. displays. John C. Hibbett first developed this Cumberland University Watertown, TN twelve-mile trail as an Eagle Scout Phone: 800-467-0562, ext. 1180 or July Project in 1977. The printed guide 615-444-2562, ext. 1180 will take you on an area history Website: CedarFest tour. www.cumberland.edu/vct/vct4.html Bluegrass, clogging, square Mt. Juliet-West Wilson dancing, and buck dancing Historical Society Ju-Ro Stables competitions. Free admission. P.O. Box 337 Horseback riding for beginners and Lebanon, TN Mt. Juliet, TN 37122 experts.

Phone: 800-789-1327 or 615-453-9655 7149 Cairo Bend Road Cedars of Lebanon State Park Lebanon, TN 37087 Watertown Jazz Festival This park contains the largest red Phone/Fax: 615-449-6621 Second Saturday cedar forest in the country, and it is E-mail: [email protected] Professional jazz musicians from named after the dense cedar forest Middle Tennessee. that existed in the Biblical land of Lebanon Watertown, TN Lebanon. The Merritt Nature Center Take a driving tour of historic Phone: 615-237-0270 contains exhibits on geology and buildings and sites in Lebanon. natural features of the park. Phone: 800-789-1327 or 615-444-5503 Fall 328 Cedar Forest Road Old Hickory Cruzin' the Cumberland Lebanon, TN 37090 Phone: 615-443-2769 Wildlife Management Area and The Music City Queen Riverboat Lock 5 Refuge provides dinner and sightseeing Fax: 615-443-2793 Website: Phone: 615-444-6673 cruises. Phone: 800-789-1327 or 615-453-9655 www.state.tn.us/environment/ Percy Priest parks/cedars/ Wildlife Management Area September Phone: 615-459-2188 Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 129 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Tanasi: A Native Vesta Cedar Glade Visitor Information AmericanVillage State Natural Area A recreated Indian community. Lebanon-Wilson County Vine Cedar Glade Ward Agricultural Center Chamber of Commerce State Natural Area 945 E Baddour Pkwy. 149 Public Square Lebanon, TN Wilson County Museum Lebanon, TN 37087 Phone: 615-443-2626 Also known as the Fessenden Phone: 615-444-5503

House, this post-Civil War home Wilson County Tourism offers a look at life in Wilson Phone: 800-789-1327 or 615-453-9655 County. Free admission. 236 West Main Street Lebanon, TN Phone: 800-789-1327 or 615-453-9655

Unit 1 God Made Tennessee – Part 1

Visit one or more of the sites listed in the Nature, Science, and Technology section beginning on page 149. Or just go out in your backyard and enjoy what God has created!

Unit 2 God Made Tennessee – Part 2

Here is a list of farms, museums, and other field trips related to farming and food production.

County Place County Place Anderson Caleb Crosby Threshing Barn Loudon Sweetwater Valley Farm Museum of Appalachia Marshall Valley Farm Bedford Tennessee Walking Horse McMinn Mayfield Dairy Museum Mouse Creek Nursery Bledsoe Oren Wooden & Family Apple Meigs Cross Creek Farm House Monroe Agri-Culture Trail Bradley Apple Valley Orchard Bentwood Farms Llamas Cocke Kyle Carver Orchards Lucky Pine Herb Farm Crockett Cotton Museum Montgomery Apple Hollow Farm Davidson Tennessee Agricultural Museum Sango Mills Franklin Robinson's Apple Orchard & Obion Flippen's Hillbilly Farm Bakery Polk Agri-Culture Trail Gibson Crenshaw Christmas Tree Farm & Roane Bacon Ridge Trail Barn Robertson Robin's Nest Orchard & Gift Shop West Tennessee Agricultural Sevier The Apple Barn & Cider Mill Museum Shelby Agricenter International Giles Ardmore Cheese Factory We're Nuts Pecan Company, Inc. Hardeman Ames Plantation Trousdale Living History Museum of Anderson's Fruit Farm Trousdale County Lauderdale Summar's Tomato Patch Unicoi Apple Orchards Halls Gin Company Warren Nurseries Lawrence Duck River Orchard & Country Wilson Haley's Farm Store

Unit 3 Native Tennesseans

See the list of Native American culture sites and events on page 146.

Unit 4 European Explorers and Settlers in Tennessee

County Place County Place Carter Carter Mansion Montgomery "As the River Flows" River Center Cocke Faubion Cemetery Exhibit Hancock Melungeons Washington Tipton-Haynes Historic Site

County Place Davidson Fort Nashborough Mansker's Station Path of the Longhunter Tour

Unit 6 From the American Revolution to Statehood

County Place County Place Anderson Lenoir Pioneer Museum Jefferson Dandridge Carter Mary McKeehan Patton Grave Knox Blount Mansion Overmountain Victory National James White Fort Historic Trail Marble Springs State Historic Sheltering Rock Farmstead Sycamore Shoals State Historic Ramsey House (Swan Pond) Park Montgomery Sevier Station Cheatham Marvel Low House Roane Fort Southwest Point Claiborne Cumberland Gap National Historic Sullivan E. W. King House (King's Park Mountain Marker) Cocke Swaggerty Fort Overmountain Victory National Davidson Bowen-Campbell House Historic Trail Greene Historic Greenville District (State Rocky Mount Living Museum of Franklin) Sumner Fort Bledsoe Historic Park Nathanael Greene Museum Rock Castle Hawkins Rogersville Historic District Wilson David Campbell Gravesite Jackson Fort Blount and Williamsburg Site

Unit 7 Exploring Faith in Tennessee

See the Religion section on page 144.

County Place Bedford Webb School Blount Sam Houston Schoolhouse Claiborne Speedwell Academy Cocke Newport Grammar School Maury Athenaeum Rectory

Sam Houston Schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee, where Houston taught in the early 1800s.

Natchez Trace Parkway - Davidson, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne, and Williamson

County Place County Place Bledsoe Bridgman House Madison Dunlap-Williams Log House Bradley Hair Conrad Cabin Museum of Early America Cheatham Log House Marshall Baird-Welch House Cocke Gilliland/O'Dell House Berlin Historic District Davidson The Hermitage Lairdland Farm Log Cabin Travellers Rest Marymont Dickson Charlotte Maury Hamilton Place Hickman Gordon House Maury Oaklawn Greene Dickson-Williams Mansion Moore Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Hardeman Little Court House Robertson White House Library and Museum The Pillars Sevier The Old Mill and Restaurant Hawkins Hale Springs Inn Shelby Davies Manor Hawkins County Courthouse Sumner Cragfont Jefferson McSpaddon House Wynnewood Lewis Blackburn Farmstead and Pioneer Warren Black House Museum Washington Chester Inn Meriwether Lewis Monument and Williamson Cotton Port Park

Unit 9 Native Tennesseans Leave Their Homeland

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail passes County Place through these counties: Bradley Red Clay State Historical Park Benton, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Cheatham, Meigs Cherokee Memorial Park Davidson, Decatur, Hamilton, Hardin, Henry, Monroe Sequoyah Birthplace Museum Houston, Humphreys, Meigs, Montgomery, Perry, Polk Fort Marr Rhea, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Van Buren, Nancy Ward Gravesite and Warren

Unit 10 The Value of Land

County Place County Place Clay Free Hill(s) Community Sullivan Bristol Sign Davidson Bicentennial Mall State Park Sumner Rock Castle Fentress Allardt U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Montgomery Collinsville Visitor Center Post House Warren The Birthing Tree Rutherford Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village Williamson Midway Geographic Center of Tennessee Wilson Fiddler's Grove Historical Village

County Place County Place Anderson Oliver Springs Railroad Depot Madison N.C. & St. L. Depot and Railroad Bedford Tennessee Walking Horse and Museum Eastern Railroad Marion Ketner's Mill Benton Benton-Houston Ferry Marshall Belfast Depot Benton Shipwreck of the Tennessee River McMinn Louisville and Nashville Depot and Blount Little River Railroad and Lumber Railroad Museum Company Museum Niota Depot Cheatham Harpeth Scenic River & Narrows Montgomery L & N Train Station Historic Area Montgomery Queen of Clarksville Riverboat Davidson General Jackson Showboat Perry Cedar Grove Iron Furnace Tennessee Central Railway Museum Putnam Cookeville Depot Museum Decatur Clifton Ferry Rhea Spring City Depot Dickson Cumberland Furnace Robertson Ridgetop Museum Montgomery Bell State Park Shelby Germantown Depot Dyer Newbern's Depot Heritage Railroad and Memphis Franklin Cowan Railroad Museum Transportation Museum Train Giles Lynnville Railroad Museum Display Hamilton Chattanooga Choo Choo Memphis Queen Line Riverboats Ooltewah Railroad Station Memphis Transportation Museum Southern Belle Riverboat Stewart Cumberland City Ferry Tennessee Valley Railroad Sullivan Long Island of the Holston Musuem (Wilderness Road) Hardin Saltillo Ferry Train Station Wayne Jerrolds Riverfront Park Sumner The Hancock House Houston Betsy Ligon Park and Walking Trail Wayne Clifton Ferry at Danville Clifton Ferry Knox Star of Knoxville Riverboat Wayne Collinwood Railway Depot Lauderdale Railroad Park White Rock House Lewis Hohenwald Depot Metal Ford Trails

Unit 12 The Times of James K. Polk

County Place County Place Blount Sam Houston Schoolhouse Jefferson Jefferson County Museum Cocke Pinehurst (Crockett's Marriage Bond) Davidson Belle Meade Plantation Lauderdale Wardlaw Steele Home Belmont Mansion Lawrence David Crockett Cabin and Museum Tennessee State Capitol (Polk's Grave) David Crockett State Park Franklin Polly Crockett Gravesite Lawrenceburg Public Square Gibson Davy Crockett Cabin (Crockett Statue & Mexican War Gibson County Courthouse Monument) (Crockett Statue) Marshall Palmetto Farm Greene Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park Swaim House Grundy Beersheba Springs Hotel Maury Elm Springs Hamblen Crockett Tavern Museum James K. Polk Home Hardeman Polk Cemetery Rattle & Snap Hardin Saltillo Historic District St. John's Church Hawkins Crockett Spring Park Sumner Rose Mont Williamson Mooreland Mansion

County Place County Place Cheatham Cheatham County Courthouse Shelby Magevney House Cocke Bell/Eisenhower House Mallory-Neely House Yett/Ellison House Slavehaven/Underground Railroad Davidson Tennessee Antebellum Trail Museum Knox Baker-Peters House Stewart The Homeplace 1850 Lincoln Bagley House Bed & Breakfast Sullivan Exchange Place Loudon The Crosseyed Cricket Sumner Hazel Path Maury Antebellum Home Tours Washington First Abolitionist Publications Tennessee Antebellum Trail Marker McMinn Woodlawn Williamson Carnton Plantation Montgomery Smith-Trahern Mansion Tennessee Antebellum Trail Rhea Broyles Darwin House

Unit 14 Civil War Military Battles

County Place County Place Bedford Tullahoma Campaign Driving Humphreys Civil War Railroad Tour Civil War Fort Cheatham Civil War Railroad Johnsonville State Historic Park Claiborne Civil War Fortifications Knox Bethel Civil War Cemetery Coffee Beech Grove Confederate Lauderdale Fort Pillow State Park Cemetery Madison Britton Lane Battlefield Tullahoma Campaign Driving Marshall Boyhood Home of Nathan Bedford Tour Forrest Davidson Fort Negley Maury Spring Hill Battlefield Dickson Civil War Railroad McNairy Big Hill Pond State Park Dyer Strahl Memorial Montgomery Fort Defiance Franklin Tullahoma Campaign Driving Moore Tullahoma Campaign Driving Tour Tour Giles Sam Davis Trail & Museum Pickett Affair at Travisville Site Greene General John Morgan Mounument Rutherford Sam Davis Home Grundy Tullahoma Campaign Driving Stones River National Battlefield Tour Shelby Fort Germantown Hamilton Battles for Chattanooga Museum Stewart Fort Donelson National Battlefield Chattanooga Veterans and Cemetery Administration National Cemetery Fort Henry Chickamauga and Chattanooga Surrender House/Dover Hotel National Military Park Trousdale The Battle of Hartsville Driving Lookout Mountain's Point Park Tour Tennessee Civil War Museum Williamson Carter House/Battle of Franklin Hardeman Battle of Davis Bridge Site Fort Granger Big Hill Pond State Park McPhail Office Hardin Cherry Mansion (Ulysses S. Grant) Shiloh's Civil War Relics and Museum Shiloh National Military Park Henderson Battle of Parker’s Crossroads

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 135 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Unit 15 Everyday Life During the Civil War County Place County Place Bedford Blockade Runner Civil War Sutlery Knox Confederate Memorial Hall Cheatham Sycamore Mills Mabry-Hazen House Claiborne Abraham Lincoln Museum Maury Rippavilla Greene Cumberland Presbyterian Church Montgomery Emerald Hill Haywood Felsenthal Lincoln Collection Rutherford Oaklands Historic House Museum Henderson Cotton Patch Restaurant Washington Tipton-Haynes Historic Site Williamson Lotz House Museum

Unit 16 A Time of Reconstruction

County Place County Place Cocke Newport City Hall Jefferson Glenmore Mansion Davidson Jubilee Hall Loudon National Campground Greene Andrew Johnson Library and Maury Ashwood Rural Historic District Museum Moore Moore County Courthouse Andrew Johnson National Historic (Confederate Monument) Site Obion Monument of Unknown Hardeman Hardeman County Court House Confederate Dead Humphreys Nolan House Bed & Breakfast

Unit 17 The End of a Century

County Place County Place Anderson Coal Creek Miner’s Museum Madison Casey Jones Village Bedford Bell Buckle Electro Chalybeate Well Ledford Mill & Museum Marion South Cumberland State Cannon Readyville Mill Recreation Area Carter Doe River Covered Bridge Marshall Robert Harris House at Silver Cocke Stokely Home Creek Davidson Nashville Zoo at Grassmere Montgomery Montgomery County Courthouse (Working Farm) Poston Building The Parthenon Moore Ledford Mill & Museum Dickson Old Spencer Mill Moore County Courthouse Fayette Somerville Town Square Morgan Historic Rugby Franklin Falls Mill & Country Store Polk Ocoee Whitewater Center (Old Gibson Trenton Teapot Museum Copper Road) Grainger Tate's Springs Roane Cornstalk Heights Historic District Grundy South Cumberland State Harriman Heritage Museum Recreation Area Rockwood Lewis Cane Creek Grist Mill Sullivan Fairmount Area Walking Tour Wilhelm Tellplatz City Park H. P. King Co. Lincoln Elk Yarn Mill Shelby Street Station Old Cowan Plantation Warren Falcon Manor

County Place County Place Bedford Walking Horse Hotel & Shops Lawrence Loretto Milling Company Carter Roan Mountain State Park (Miller Lewis Brown's Variety Store Homestead) Gordonsburg Claiborne Hensley Settlement Lincoln Fayetteville Bed & Breakfast Cocke "Christy" Boarding House and Macon Red Boiling Springs Mission Site Madison Wolfe Communications Mimosa Manor Marshall Dixie Theatre Cumberland Crossville Depot (Sgt. York) Overton Overton County Courthouse Pioneer Hall Museum (World War I Cannon) Davidson War Memorial Building (Sgt. Perry Bromley Hotel York's Uniform) Polk Reliance Dyer Emerson E. Parks Covered Bridge Roane Harriman Heritage Museum Lenox Bridge Robertson Adams Museum Fentress Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park Sequatchie Dunlap Coke Ovens Park Giles Giles County Courthouse Sevier Arrowmont School of Arts and Henderson Hinson Springs Crafts Hickman Centerville Public Square Van Buren Shockley House Inn

Unit 19 The Roaring Twenties

County Place County Place Davidson Cheekwood Obion Masquerade Theatre Hamilton Rock City Gardens Rhea Rhea County Courthouse and Museum Knox Tennessee Theater Scopes Trial Sites Tour Lawrence James D. Vaughan Museum Shelby Orpheum Theatre Marshall Ladies Restroom Sullivan Confederate Soldier Memorial McMinn Gem Theater

Unit 20 Hard Times in the Thirties

County Place County Place Anderson Bull Run Steam Plant Johnson Butler Museum Norris Dam State Park & Norris Loudon Fort Loudon Dam and Lake Lake Melton Hill Dam & Lake Carter Watauga and Wilbur Dams Monroe Cherokee National Forest Tellico Cheatham Cheatham Lake and Dam Ranger Station Clay Cordell Hull's First Law Office Pickett Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum Dale Hollow Lake Rhea Watts Bar Dam Cumberland Cumberland Homesteads Tower Smith Center Hill Lake Museum Cordell Hull Lake Davidson Old Hickory Lock and Dam Stewart Cumberland Fossil Plant Grainger Cherokee Lake & Dam Sullivan South Holston Dam Hamilton Racoon Mountain Pumped Storage Sumner U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Project Visitor Center Hardin Pickwick Landing State Park Tipton The Ruffin Theater Tennessee River Waterway Museum

County Place Montgomery Fort Campbell Military Reservation Williamson Maryland Manor

Unit 22 A World at War – Part 2

County Place Anderson Oak Ridge Shelby Mud Island River Park (Memphis Belle)

Unit 23 The 50s – Rights, Rocketships, and Rock 'n' Roll

County Place County Place Cheatham Stratton's Montgomery Fort Campbell Military Coffee Arnold Engineering Development Reservation Center & Arnold Air Force Base Roxy Regional Theatre Franklin Oldham Theatre Sevier Elvis Museum Knox Mt. Zion Baptist Church Shelby Graceland Marion Opera House Sun Studio Maury Lumpy's Malt Shop

Unit 24 The 60s and 70s – A Cultural Revolution

County Place County Place Hamilton National Memorial for the Unborn Sevier Carbo's Smoky Mountain Police Lewis The Farm Museum (Buford Pusser) McNairy Buford Pusser Home and Museum Shelby Mason Temple Church of God in Buford Pusser Sherrif's Office Christ (King's Last Speech) Montgomery Fort Campbell Military National Civil Rights Museum Reservation (Lorraine Motel)

Unit 25 Tennessee at 200

County Place County Place Davidson Bicentennial Mall State Park Montgomery Fort Campbell Military Knox Sunsphere Museum Reservation Knox World's Fair Park & Festival Pickett Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum Center Sumner Cold Springs School and Museum Lauderdale Lauderdale County Courthouse (Bicentennial Memorabilia)

County Place County Place Anderson Oliver Springs Railroad Depot Lincoln Cahoots (Fire Engines) Overton Governor A.H. Roberts Law Office Carroll Gordon Browning Museum Sevier Carbo's Smoky Mountain Police Davidson Governor's Executive Residence Museum Tennessee State Capitol Shelby Beale Street Police Museum Dickson Frank G. Clement Birthplace Fire Museum of Memphis Franklin Hundred Oaks Castle Oaklawn Gardens Knox Blount Mansion Sumner Trousdale Place Marble Springs State Historic Farmstead

Unit 27 Tennessee Cultures

See the list of Cultural Sites & Events on page 145.

County Place Davidson Hartzler-Towner Multicultural Museum Montgomery Cumberland RiverWalk (International Flags)

Unit 28 Tennessee Sports and Music

See the Sports list on page 146 and the Music list on page 141.

See the list of historic churches on page 144.

County Place Hickman Tarkington's General Store Carroll Billy O. Williams Museum County Place Cheatham Harpeth Clock and Quilt Company Jefferson Frances Hodgson Burnett Cabin Site Cocke Old Stokely Brothers Headquarters Knox Haley Heritage Square Rhyne Clock Company Lauderdale Alex Haley House Museum Davidson Hatch Show Print Lawrence Coca-Cola Palace Museum Nashville Arena Granny's TV Network Nashville Toy Museum Loudon Peregrine International Museum of Ryman Auditorium Scouting Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel Marshall J. C. Tate General Store TNN: The Nashville Network Maury Saturn Welcome Center Dyer Museum of Magic & History McMinn Trew's General Store Fentress Cumberland Mountain General Robertson Thomas Drugs Store Rutherford Nissan Factory Mark Twain Park Sequatchie Scott's Choo Choos Franklin Old Jail Museum (Dinah Shore) Shelby A. Schwab Dry Goods Store Giles American Home Entertainment Flashback Museum Libertyland Milky Way Farms The Pyramid Soda Pop Junction S.Y. Wilson & Co. Grundy Dutch Maid Bakery Sullivan Netherland Inn Log Cabin Hamilton Coolidge Park Children's Museum Innovative Miniatures and Paramount Center for the Arts Museum Sumner Trinity Music City USA Hardeman Tennessee Pewter Factory Wayne T. S. Stribling Museum Hawkins Rogersville Printing Museum

Unit 30 Tennessee Today and Tomorrow

County Place County Place Davidson Nashville Shelby Memphis Hamilton Chattanooga Sullivan Kingsport, Bristol Knox Knoxville Washington Johnson City Madison Jackson Your County Your Town Montgomery Clarksville

The Arts

Music

County Place County Place Bedford Louvin Brothers Museum Lawrence James D. Vaughan Museum Benton Patsy Cline Memorial Tennessee Valley Jamboree Bradley Lee University School of Music Montgomery Center of Excellence for the Programs Creative Arts Campbell Bluegrass Get-Togethers Putnam Bryan Fine Arts Center Cocke The Front Porch Rhea Curly Fox Museum Grace Moore Birthplace Roane Bradbury Community Club Hillbilly's Music Barn Rutherford Center for Popular Music Mountain Musicrafts Sevier Dollywood (Southern Gospel Davidson Country Music Hall of Fame and Music Hall of Fame and Museum) Museum Shelby Beale Street Blues Museum Gibson Bluegrass Museum Beale Street Historic District Grand Ole Opry Gibson Guitar Memphis Grand Ole Opry Museum Graceland Great Performances at Vanderbilt Lindenwood Concerts Jubilee Hall Memphis Music Hall of Fame Kitty Wells/Johnny Wright Memphis Symphony Orchestra Family Country Junction Raoul Wallenberg Overton Park Lipscomb University School of Shell Music Programs Sun Studio Music Row W. C. Handy Home Museum Music Valley Wax Museum Sullivan Birthplace of Country Music Nashville Chamber Orchestra Museum & Tour Nashville Symphony Series Country Music Monument & Performing Arts Series Mural Texas Troubadour Theatre Kingsport Renaissance Center Willie Nelson and Friends Old-Time Jam Sessions Showcase Museum Sullivan Tennessee Ernie Ford Home Dickson Grand Old Hatchery Sumner Johnny Cash Museum Hamilton The Mountain Opry Randy's Record Shop Hawkins Archie Campbell Tourism Complex Trinity Music City USA Haywood Sleepy John Estes House Union Roy Acuff Union Museum & Wild Onion Ridge Music Heritage Library Park Washington Beechwood Music Center Hickman Grinder's Switch (Minnie Pearl) Johnson City Symphony Orchestra Humphreys Loretta Lynn's Ranch White Sparta Ampitheater Johnson Old Time Music Knox Cradle of Country Music Walking Tour

County Place Lauderdale Lauderdale Council of Arts Gallery Anderson Oak Ridge Community Art Center Maury Maury County Arts Guild & Museum of Fine Arts McMinn Tennessee Wesleyan College Gallery Blount K Collection of Catherine Girard Montgomery Center of Excellence for the Blount Lee Roberson Gallery Creative Arts Bradley Cleveland Creative Arts Guild Mabel Larson Art Gallery Coffee Manchester Arts Center Trahern Gallery Coffee Tullahoma Fine Arts Moore Country By Nature Center/Regional Art Museum Putnam Bryan Fine Arts Center Cocke Joan Beaver Studio Rhea Eldridge Art Gallery Davidson Aaron Douglas Gallery Rutherford Murfreesboro/Rutherford County The Arts Company Center for the Arts Belmont Mansion Sevier Robert A. Tino Gallery Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Art Shelby Art Museum of the University of Cheekwood Memphis Cumberland Gallery The Children's Museum of Frist Center for the Visual Arts Memphis The Gallery at Watkins Institute Delta Axis Contemporary Arts In the Gallery Center Local Color Gallery Dixon Gallery and Gardens Opryland Hotel Collections Germantown Community Theatre The Parthenon Gallery Sarrat Gallery at Vanderbilt Memphis Botanic Garden University Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Tennessee Arts Commission Memphis College of Art Gallery National Ornamental Metal The Ultimate Gallery Museum Upper Room Chapel and Museum Peabody Place Museum & Gallery Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Rainbow Works Gallery Woodruff-Fontaine House/Lee Dickson The Renaissance Center House Franklin University Gallery Sullivan Allandale Mansion Gibson West Tennessee Regional Art Bristol Art Guild & Gallery Museum King College Hamilton Bluff View Art District Kingsport Art Guild C. C. Bond Gallery Kingsport Renaissance Center George Ayers Cress Gallery of Art Meadowview Regional Art Houston Museum of Decorative Collection Arts Up Against the Wall Gallery Hunter Museum of American Art Virginia Intermont College Fine The In-Town Gallery Arts Gallery River Gallery and Sculpture Sumner Bradford-Berry House Garden Monthaven Mansion Hardin Savannah Art Guild Gallery Unicoi Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens Knox Armstrong-Lockett House Washington Hands On! Regional Museum Ewing Gallery of Art & Johnson City Area Arts Council & Architecture Fine Art Gallery Joseph B. Wolffe Gallery Slocumb Galleries Knoxville Museum of Art Williamson The Art Dept. University of Tennessee Gallery Wilson Heydel Fine Arts Center Concourse

County Place Macon Little House Crafts Anderson Appalachian Arts Craft Shop Newberry & Sons Chairs Greenwich Village Mall Wildwoods Folk School James-Ben Gallery Maury Accents and Antiques The Upstairs Gallery at the Mall Ashwood Pottery Bedford Bell Buckle Crafts McMinn Artist Alcove Blount Earthtide Gallery McNairy Hockaday Broom Museum and Gift Cannon Arts Center of Cannon County Shop Off Our Rocker Monroe Coker Creek Crafts Gallery Cheatham Comfort Pottery Tellico Arts Center Cocke Deerfoot Quilts Montgomery Overcast Pottery Coffee Foothills Crafts Moore The Lynchburg Pottery & Gift Cumberland Polly Page's Mountain Crafts Gallery DeKalb Appalachian Center for Crafts Overton Court Square Emporium Dickson Five Rivers Creative Gallery Putnam Cookeville Arts Center Fentress Mountaineer Craft Center Silver Point Gallery Grundy Mountain Lake Glassworks Sevier Arrowmont School of Arts and Sculpture in Wood Crafts Hamilton Horsin' Around Carving School The Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Hawkins Main Street Studio and Gallery Community Haywood Mindfield Old Mill Village Hickman Hickman County Public Library Sullivan The Rustic Shop & Cooper's Gem (Art Displays) Mine Jackson Freestone Pottery Sumner Bradford-Berry House Knox The Candy Factory and Victorian Monthaven Mansion District Unicoi Rick Murray - Woodturner Lauderdale Art Mall Stegall's Pottery & Crafts Gallery Lawrence Amish Country Galleries Williamson Heart and Hands Dutch Country Bakery & Deli James-Ben: Studio and Galleries Granny's Welcome Center Mama J's Cabin County Place

Theater & Dance

Many cities have community playhouses that produce quality work. Look in the listings for your county and surrounding counties. Here are a few of the more prominent performance halls and organizations. To avoid unpleasant surprises, ask questions about content if you are unsure about the suitability of a performance for your family.

County Place County Place Cumberland Cumberland County Playhouse Shelby Ballet Memphis Davidson Nashville Ballet Germantown Performing Arts Nashville Opera Association Centre Tennessee Performing Arts Center Opera Memphis Hamilton Chattanooga Theatre Centre Orpheum Theatre Knox City Ballet of Knoxville Sullivan Bristol Ballet Company Knoxville Opera Company Kingsport Association of Dance Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Arists and Chamber Orchestra Kingsport Guild of Ballet Montgomery Center of Excellence for the Kingsport Inter City Ballet Creative Arts Washington Johnson City Ballet

Historic Churches

County Place County Place Cocke Harned's Chapel Church Marshall Bear Creek Cumberland Oven Creek Methodist Church Presbyterian Church Salem Lutheran Church & Cornersville Methodist Church Cemetery Cumberland Presbyterian Church Davidson Capers Memorial Christian of Chapel Hill Methodist Episcopal Church Presbyterian Church of Petersburg St. John African Methodist Verona Methodist Church Episcopal Church Maury St. John's Church Franklin All Saints' Chapel St. Peter's Episcopal Church Giles Church of the Messiah Zion Presbyterian First Presbyterian Church McMinn Walnut Grove Methodist Church First United Methodist Church Montgomery St. Peter A.M.E. Church Greene Cumberland Presbyterian Church Overton Alpine Christ Church Presbyterian Hamilton Shiloh Baptist Church and School Wiley United Methodist Church Putnam Algood United Methodist Church Knox Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Roane Post Oak Springs Christian Church Zion Church Robertson Mt. Zion United Methodist Church Mt. Olive Baptist Church Red River Baptist Church Mt. Zion Baptist Church St. Michael's Church Rogers Memorial Baptist Shelby Collins Chapel CME Church Shiloh Presbyterian Church Sumner Hendersonville Presbyterian Lauderdale First Presbyterian Church Church Lawrence St. Joseph Church Key Stewart Methodist Church Loudon Martel Methodist Church Warren Old Philadelphia Church Wayne Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Museums and Gardens

County Place Davidson Disciples of Christ Historical Society and Museum Upper Room Chapel and Museum Hamilton Siskin Museum of Religious and Ceremonial Art Jefferson Biblical Gardens Sevier Christus Gardens Shelby Biblical Resource Center and Museum

African and African American

County Place County Place Davidson Aaron Douglas Gallery Knox Beck Cultural Exchange Center In the Gallery Haley Heritage Square Jubilee Hall Lauderdale Alex Haley House Museum Sankofa-African Heritage Museum Bethlehem Cemetery Hamilton Chattanooga African-American W. G. L. Rice Memorial Park Museum & Research Center/Bessie Madison Wolfe Communications Smith Hall Shelby Beale Street Blues Museum Mary Walker Historical & Blues City Cultural Center Educational Foundation National Civil Rights Museum Haywood The African Roots Museum W. C. Handy Home Museum

The following counties host events related to African and African-American history and culture: Davidson, Hamilton, Knox, Lauderdale, Shelby

Amish and Mennonite

Clay, Fentress, Lawrence, and Perry Counties have communities of Amish or Mennonites. These religious groups share many of the same customs, and they produce a variety of foods and crafts.

Appalachian

County Place Anderson Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge Museum of Appalachia Blount Cades Cove Visitors Center & Museum Cocke Smoky Mountain Information Center Knox Gateway Regional Visitor Center Laurel House Theatre and Jubilee Center Sevier Dollywood Washington Center for Appalachian Studies & Services

The following counties host events related to Appalachian history and culture: Anderson, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Cumberland, Hawkins, Morgan, Sullivan.

Cajun

Rutherford Manuel's Cajun Country Store

Chinese

Shelby Peabody Place Museum & Gallery

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 145 © 2003 The Notgrass Company European The following counties host events related to these European cultures: County Place Henry Eiffel Tower British Claiborne, Morgan Morgan Historic Rugby Celtic Davidson Sevier Heidelberg Restaurant French Henry Sullivan Highlander Dinner Theatre German Davidson, Fentress, Henry, Stone Castle (Bristol Municipal Montgomery Stadium) Greek Knox Irish Houston, Humphreys, Shelby Italian Davidson, Shelby Scottish Rutherford, Sevier, Sullivan Scots-Irish Claiborne Swiss Grundy Ukranian Davidson Western Williamson European

Japanese

Monroe Tennessee Meiji Gakuin Culture Enrichment Center

Native American

County Place County Place Bradley Cherokee Chieftain Meigs Cherokee Memorial Park Red Clay State Historical Park Monroe Sequoyah Birthplace Museum Cheatham Mound Bottom Historic Site Polk Fort Marr Coffee Old Stone Fort State Park Nancy Ward Gravesite Hamilton Audubon Acres & MacLellan Putnam The Standing Stone Island Sanctuary Shelby Chucalissa Hardin Shiloh Indian Mounds National Williamson Boiling Springs Indian Mound Historic Landmark Wilson Tanasi: A Native American Village Tennessee River Musuem Madison Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park

The following counties host events related to Native American history and culture: Bradley, Coffee, Carter, Davidson, Hickman, Knox, Lauderdale, Madison, Meigs, Monroe, Putnam, Wilson

Sports

County Place Davidson Golf House Tennessee Hardeman National Bird Dog Museum Knox Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Loudon Eagle's Wings Archery Pro Shop Montgomery Clarksville-Montgomery County Museum (Wilma Rudolph) Polk Ocoee Whitewater Center (1996 Olympics) Shelby U.S.A. Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame

Ancient

County Place Davidson The Parthenon (Greek) Knox Frank H. McClung Museum (Egypt) Sevier Christus Gardens (Biblical) Shelby Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Egypt) Biblical Resource Center and Museum (Biblical)

Sullivan Bays Mountain Park The Parthenon Washington Museum of Ancient Brick

General History

County Place County Place Benton Tennessee River Folklife Henry Henry County Courthouse Interpretive Center Paris-Henry County Heritage Bradley Museum Center at 5ive Points Center Cannon Robert Mason Historical Museum Humphreys Enochs Grist Mill & Museum Carroll Billy O. Williams Museum Humphreys County Museum Huntingdon Historical Museum Loretta Lynn's Ranch Clay Clay County Museum World O' Tools Museum Cocke Newport/Cocke County Museum Jackson Granville Museum Coffee Arrowheads to Aerospace Museum Jackson County Museum Mitchell Museum Jefferson Jefferson County Museum Davidson Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel Johnson Johnson County Museum Tennessee Library and Archives Knox Beck Cultural Exchange Center Tennessee State Museum East Tennessee Historical Society Franklin Old Jail Museum Museum Gibson West Tennessee Strawberry Farragut Folklife Museum Festival Historical Museum Frank H. McClung Museum Giles Giles County Historical Society Gateway Regional Visitor Center and Museum Knoxville Academy of Medicine Old Graveyard Memorial Park Museum Greene Doak House Museum Museum of East Tennessee History Nathanael Greene Museum Old Gray Cemetery Grundy Old Brown Museum Volunteer Landing Hamblen Rose Center Volunteer State Veterans Hall of Hamilton Chattanooga Regional History Honor Museum Lauderdale Murray Hudson's Antiquarian National Knife Museum Books and Maps National Medal of Honor Museum Veterans' Museum of Military History Lawrence Old Jail Museum Tennessee Riverpark Ralph J. Passarella Memorial Museum Hardeman Ames Plantation Lewis Lewis County Museum Hardin Savannah Historic District and Trail Lincoln Fayetteville/Lincoln County Tennessee River Musuem Museum Tennessee River Waterway Loudon Carmichael Inn Museum Museum Lenoir City Museum Wayne Jerrolds Riverfront Park Old Lenoir City Hall Hawkins Archie Campbell Tourism Complex Macon Galen School Museum Haywood Haywood County Museum Key Park West Tennessee Delta Heritage Marshall Marshall County Historical Center Museum Wild Onion Ridge Music Heritage Maury Mt. Pleasant/Maury Phosphate Park Museum Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 147 © 2003 The Notgrass Company County Place County Place McMinn Englewood Textile Museum Shelby Bartlett Museum/Gotten House Furs to Factories Heritage Trail Collierville McMinn County Living Heritage Elmwood Cemetery Museum Finn Navy Aviation Ordnance McNairy McNairy County Historical Museum Museum Hunt-Phelan Home Meigs Meigs County Historical Museum Memphis Pink Palace Museum Monroe Furs to Factories Heritage Trail Mud Island River Park Museum from the Past Rachel H. K. Burrow Museum Sweetwater Heritage Museum Wonders: The Memphis Vonore Heritage Museum International Cultural Series Montgomery "As the River Flows" River Center Stewart Dover Cemetery Exhibit Sullivan Bays Mountain Park Clarksville-Montgomery County E. W. King House Museum Estelle Carmack Bandy Children's Moore Goodwin's General Museum Musuem Moore County Historic Jail Netherland Inn/Boatyard Complex Museum Museum Obion Dixie Gun Works Veteran's Memorial Obion County Museum Sumner Cold Springs School and Museum Perry Mousetail Landing State Park Sumner County Museum Polk Ducktown Basin Museum Westmoreland Library & Historic Furs to Factories Heritage Trail Museum Roane Bethel Cemetery Tipton Tipton County Museum Roane County Museum of History Trousdale Trousdale County Museum and Art Unicoi Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens Robertson Adams Museum Unicoi County Heritage Museum Bell School Antique Mall and Washington B. Carrol Reece Museum Museum Discover Jonesborough's Laterns & Greenbrier Museum Legends Tour Port Royal State Historic Park Discover Jonesborough's Times & Robertson County Historical Tales Tour Museum Jonesborough/Washington County Rutherford Bradley Academy History Museum Sevier Guinness World of Records Museum at Mountain Home Museum Wayne Clifton Museum Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum Weakley University of Tennessee Museum Sevier County Heritage Museum & Archives Sevierville Historic Walking Trail Wilson Andrew Jackson Historical Trail Smoky Mountain Knife Works Wilson County Museum

Nature Centers and Museums

County Place County Place Anderson Children's Museum of Oak Ridge Rutherford Children's Discovery House Humphreys Blue Creek Nature Center Museum Knox East Tennessee Discovery Center Shelby Lichterman Nature Center Frank H. McClung Museum Sullivan Bays Mountain Park Ijams Nature Center Stacy Grayson Memorial at Steel Lake National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Creek Park Center and Museum Steele Creek Park & Nature Center McNairy Coon Creek Science Center

Caves Waterfalls

County Place County Place Anderson Hill Cave Coffee Rutledge Falls Dickson Great Ruskin and Jewel Caves Hickman Jackson Falls Grundy Wonder Cave Fentress Colditz Cove Northrup Falls Hamilton Raccoon Mountain Crystal Caverns Hamilton Ruby Falls Maury Southport Saltpeter Cave Hancock Elrod Falls Monroe Lost Sea Lewis Fall Hollow Montgomery Dunbar Cave Marion Foster Falls Putnam Old City Cave Putnam Burgess Falls Robertson Bell Witch Cave Rhea Laurel and Snow Falls Sevier Forbidden Caverns Stinging Fork Falls Sullivan Appalachian Caverns Van Buren Fall Creek Falls Bristol Caverns White Virgin Falls Warren Cumberland Caverns

Animals

County Place County Place Cheatham The Honey House (Bee Hives) Maury Monsanto Ponds Davidson Nashville Zoo at Grassmere Obion Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge Hamilton Tennessee Wildlife Center Putnam Wilson's North American Wildlife Warner Park Zoo Museum Hardeman National Bird Dog Museum Robertson BLM Wild Horse and Burro Haywood Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge Adoption/Holding Facility Henry Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Sevier Cedar Ridge Petting Zoo & Exotic Humphreys Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Animals Knox Knoxville Zoological Gardens Smoky Mountain Deer Farm & Lauderdale Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge Exotic Petting Zoo Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Wilson's North American Wildlife Refuge Museum Lewis The Elephant Sanctuary Shelby Memphis Zoo Lewis County Museum (Exotic The Peabody Ducks Trophy Mounts) St. Nick Farm and Zoological Park Madison Cypress Grove Natural Park Stewart Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge (Raptor Center) Land Between the Lakes (Elk & Bison) Sumner Flick's Exotic Petting Farm

County Place County Place Anderson Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery Anderson University of Tennessee Aboretum Bedford Normandy Fish Hatchery Bledsoe Catherine's Garden Benton Birdsong Resort (Pearl Farm) Blount Hedgewood Gardens Bradley The Aquatic Wildlife Company Davidson Opryland Hotel Indoor Gardens Clay Dale Hollow National Fish Hamilton Chattanooga Choo Choo Gardens Hatchery Reflection Riding Arboretum & Hamilton Tennessee Aquarium Botanical Gardens Monroe Pheasant Fields Fish Rearing Pools Knox Armstrong House W.P. Toms Overton Deep Valley Trout Farm Memorial Gardens Sevier Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies McMinn Sunshine Hollow Tennessee Unicoi Erwin National Fish Hatchery Shelby Dixon Gallery and Gardens Memphis Botanic Garden Oaklawn Gardens Unicoi Farmhouse Gallery and Gardens

Planetaria

County Place Davidson Cumberland Science Museum Dickson The Renaissance Center Knox East Tennessee Discovery Center Shelby Memphis Pink Palace Stewart Land Between the Lakes Sullivan Bays Mountain Park

Science & Technology Transportation

County Place County Place Anderson American Museum of Science and Coffee Beech Staggerwing Museum Energy Davidson Music Valley Car Museum Bull Run Steam Plant Nashville Carriage Service East Tennessee Technology Park Grundy Old Stone Bridges Overlook Hamblen Rose Center Coffee Arnold Engineering Development Hamilton International Towing and Center & Arnold Air Force Base Recovery Hall of Fame & Museum Davidson Cumberland Science Museum and Lookout Mountain Incline Railway Sudekum Planetarium McMinn Swift Air Museum Dickson The Renaissance Center McNairy Gas Station Museum Hamilton Challenger Learning Center Moore C & R Buggy Tours Creative Discovery Museum Sevier Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Roane Oak Ridge National Laboratory Museum Rutherford Children's Discovery House Smoky Mountain Car Museum Museum Shelby Carriage Tours of Memphis Shelby The Children's Museum of Main Street Trolley Memphis Memphis Transportation Museum Smith Cordell Hull Dam Stewart Cumberland Fossil Plant Washington Hands On! Regional Museum

Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area - Fentress, Morgan, Pickett

Cherokee National Forest - Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, McMinn, Monroe, Polk, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington

Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Blount, Cocke, Sevier

Obed National Wild and Scenic River - Morgan

Land Between the Lakes - Stewart

Appalachian Trail This National Scenic Trail stretching from Maine to Georiga passes along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, through Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sevier, and Unicoi Counties.

Horseback Riding

The following counties have companies that provide guided or unguided horse rides (and some llama hikes). Some companies rent horses, others do not.

Benton Johnson Blount Lincoln Carroll Marshall Cheatham Polk Clay Putnam Cocke Scott Cumberland Sevier Davidson Sullivan Fentress Sumner Franklin Wayne Greene Williamson Humphreys Wilson

Canoeing and Whitewater Rafting

The following counties have companies that provide various levels of canoeing or whitewater rafting.

Carter Perry Cheatham Polk Cocke Robertson Davidson Scott Fayette Sequatchie Humphreys Unicoi Lewis Wayne Lincoln White Morgan

Tennessee State Parks contain a variety of natural and historical attractions. Recreation activities at each park vary, but you will often find hiking and biking trails, boat rentals, and horseback riding. Especially during the summer, many of the parks feature special interpretive tours and nature programs. Contact the park for specific information.

County Park County Park Anderson Norris Dam State Park & Norris Humphreys Johnsonville State Historic Park Lake Knox House Mountain State Park Benton Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park Lake Reelfoot Lake State Park Bledsoe Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Lauderdale Fort Pillow State Park Campbell Cove Lake State Park Lawrence David Crockett State Park Indian Mountain State Park Madison Pinson Mounds State Carter Roan Mountain State Park Archaeological Park Sycamore Shoals State Historic Marshall Henry Horton State Park Park McNairy Big Hill Pond State Park Cheatham Harpeth Scenic River & Narrows Montgomery Dunbar Cave State Natural Area Historic Park Morgan Frozen Head State Park & Natural Chester Chickasaw State Park Area Coffee Old Stone Fort State Park Overton Standing Stone State Park Cumberland Cumberland Mountain State Park Perry Mousetail Landing State Park Davidson Bicentennial Mall State Park Pickett Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum Long Hunter State Park State Park Radnor Lake State Natural Park Pickett State Park DeKalb Edgar Evins State Rustic Park Polk Hiwassee River State Park & Ocoee Dickson Montgomery Bell State Park River Fentress Pickett State Park and Forest Putnam Burgess Falls State Natural Park Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Robertson Port Royal State Historic Park Park Rutherford Long Hunter State Park Franklin Tims Ford State Park Shelby Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Greene Davy Crockett Birthplace State T. O. Fuller State Park Park Sullivan Warrior's Path State Park Grundy South Cumberland State Sumner Bledsoe Creek State Park Recreation Park Union Big Ridge State Park Hamblen Panther Creek State Park Van Buren Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park Hamilton Booker T. Washington State Park Warren Rock Island State Park Harrison Bay State Park Weakley Big Cypress Tree State Natural Hardeman Big Hill Pond State Park Park Hardin Pickwick Landing State Park Wilson Cedars of Lebanon State Park Henderson Natchez Trace State Park Henry Paris Landing State Park

Natural Areas are generally less developed than State Parks. They are designed primarily for hiking and enjoying the animals and plants. The following counties have one or more Natural Areas, a few of which are also State Parks.

Bledsoe Franklin Marion Sevier Cannon Grundy Montgomery Shelby Carter Hamilton Morgan Sullivan Claiborne Hardin Obion Sumner Coffee Hawkins Pickett Van Buren Cumberland Jackson Polk Warren Davidson Knox Putnam Weakley Dickson Lake Rhea White Fayette Lauderdale Rutherford Williamson Fentress Lewis Scott Wilson

Wildlife Management Areas

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) manages over eighty Wildlife Management Areas in the state. Most of them are open for hunting and trapping in season with certain regulations. At other times, they may be open for hiking and animal observation. The following counties contain one or more of these areas. Contact the TWRA or the phone number listed for details on a specific area. Always be alert when you are in hunting areas.

Anderson Fayette Lawrence Rutherford Bedford Franklin Lincoln Scott Benton Gibson Madison Sevier Blount Grainger Marion Shelby Bradley Greene Maury Smith Campbell Hamilton McMinn Stewart Carroll Hardeman Meigs Sumner Cheatham Hardin Monroe Trousdale Chester Henderson Montgomery Union Cocke Henry Moore Wayne Coffee Hickman Morgan Weakley Crockett Jackson Obion White Cumberland Jefferson Overton Williamson Davidson Johnson Pickett Wilson Decatur Knox Rhea DeKalb Lake Roane Dyer Lauderdale Robertson

January

County Event County Event Carter Hardin's Rangers Garrison at Fort Knox Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Watauga Celebration Davidson Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Lake Reelfoot Eagle Watch Tours Chet Atkins' Musicians Days Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Commemoration of the Battle of Rutherford Anniversary of the Battle of Stones New Orleans River Twelfth Night Celebration Sevier Wilderness Wildlife Week Hamilton Enchanted Garden of Lights Shelby Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

February

County Event County Event Carter Company of Overmountain Men McMinn Gospel Explosion Garrison at Fort Watauga Meigs Cherokee Indian Heritage and Davidson Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Sandhill Crane Viewing Days Ukrainian Eggs and Seasonal Art Montgomery Celebration of Quilts Displays Roane George Washington's Birthday Hardeman National Field Trials Celebration Championship/Bird Dog Sevier Smoky Mountains Storytelling Championship Festival Lake Reelfoot Eagle Watch Tours Shelby Tennessee Black Heritage Festival Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Sullivan Tennessee Literary Festival

March

County Event County Event Bedford Daffodil Day Houston Irish Celebration Bradley Ocoee Story Fest Lake Deep Swamp Canoe Trip Cumberland Fireside Tales Reelfoot Eagle Watch Tours Davidson Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Living History Encampment McMinn Cousin Jake Memorial Bluegrass "Telling Her Story" Sundays Festival President Andrew Jackson's Montgomery Old Time Fiddlers' Championship Birthday Roane Tennessee Quarter Horse Show Ukrainian Eggs and Seasonal Art Sevier Mountain Quiltfest Displays Shelby St. Patrick's Day Celebration Victorian Easter Williamson Irish Confederate Memorial Service Fentress Alvin C. York Shooting Match Wilson String Band Music Weekend

County Event County Event Anderson Red Bud Festival Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Benton Old Time Bluegrass & Fiddler's David Crockett Spring Festival Championship Lewis Lewis County Saddle Club Horse Blount Dogwood Arts Festival Show Carter Peter's Hollow Egg Fight Loudon Loudon County Dogwood Festival Cheatham Cheatham Wildlife Trail Rides Macon People's Choice Art Exhibit Walk on the Wildside Marion National Cornbread Festival Cumberland Depot Days and Fine Arts Festival Maury Mule Day Davidson Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Montgomery Mid-South Jazz Festival Cheekwood Summer Music Series Moore Spotted Horse Show Shelby Mustang Car Club Show Morgan Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Ukrainian Eggs and Seasonal Art Obion Ridgemont Spring Heritage Days Displays Perry Wildflowers Nature Hike Victorian Easter Polk Ramp Tramp Festival Wildflower Fair Rutherford Cannonsburgh Pioneer Day Dickson Spring Wildflower Festival Charlie Daniels Rodeo Taste of Town Sevier Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Dyer Blue Cap Gospel Singing Shelby Africa in April Cultural Awareness Dogwood Festival Festival Fentress History Week and Round-Up Crossroads Music Exposition Giles Walking Horse Show Wetland Walk Greene Civil War Encampment Sullivan Spring Festival Hamilton Spring Blossoms Spring Garden Fair Hardeman Historic Homes Tour Sumner Hendersonville Arts Festival Hardin Living History Demonstration Historic Cragfont Pilgrimage Savannah Art Guild Civil War Art Pilgrimage of Homes Display Spring Musical Henderson West Tennessee Fiddlers' Contest Unicoi Fiddlers and Fiddleheads Festival and Barbecue Union Big Ridge Wildflower Walks Henry World's Biggest Fish Fry Warren Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage Knox Dogwood Arts Festival Washington Appalachian Antique Farm Show Smoky Mountain Quilt Show & Wayne Trail Ride Competition Williamson Main Street Festival Lauderdale Civil War Living History Wilson Wildflower Pilgrimage

May

County Event County Event Anderson Mayfest Cumberland Herb and Medicinal Plant Walk Bedford Historic Bell Buckle Homecoming Concerts in the Park Moon Pie Festival Davidson Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Spring Fun Walking Horse Show Cheekwood Summer Music Series Benton Spring Festival Colonial Fair Bledsoe Lady Slipper Weekend Edgefield Tour of Homes Blount Townsend Spring Festival and Old Living History Encampment Timers Day Rural Life Festival Bradley Evening Shade Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society Carter Summer Concert Series Concert Series Miller Homestead Saturdays Dickson Old Timer's Day Wildflower Tours and Birdwalks Cunningham Bluegrass Festival Cocke Ramp Festival Fayette Spring Music Festival Coffee Fine Arts Festival Gibson Trenton Teapot Festival Flintknapping Workshop West Tennessee Strawberry Festival

Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 156 © 2003 The Notgrass Company County Event County Event Giles Nifty 50s Celebration Moore Spring in the Hollow Railroad Days Morgan Bluegrass & Gospel Music Festival Walking Horse Show Festival of British and Appalachian Greene Iris Festival Culture Memorial Day Program Polk Ocoee Rodeo Hamblen International Festival Putnam Bluegrass and Crafts Festival SpringFest Rhea Tennessee Strawberry Festival Hamilton Bessie Smith Traditional Dixieland Roane Hooray for Harriman Spring Jazz Festival Concert Kaleidoscope Children's Festival Living History Days Nightfall Concert Series Lone Star World Championship River Reunion and Artist Walk Rodeo Spring Blossoms Smoky Mountain Walking Horse Hardeman Historic Hardeman County Month Show Henderson Family Fun Days Rutherford Days on the Farm Henry Puryear Day Sevier Gatlinburg Scottish Festival and Hickman Miracle Day Games East Hickman Indian Pow-Wow Music and Arts Festival Humphreys Civil War Living History Camp & Smoky Mountain Balloons and Grand Ball Bluegrass Jackson Poke Sallet Festival Shelby Junior College Baseball World Jefferson Memorial Day Jamboree Series Plowin' Day and Spring Festival Memphis in May International Strawberry Festival Festival Knox American Indian Celebration and Wetland Walk Pow Wow Smith Classic Car Show Greek Festival Stewart Illumination Ceremony Hot Summer Nights Concert Series Ceremony Honoring Veterans Rare Breed Livestock, Miniature, Sullivan Appalachian Trade Festival and Pet Expo Triangle Jazz Party Lake Pontoon Boat Cruises Wildflower Days Swamp Tromp Wooly Days Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Sumner Strawberry Festival Summer Adventures Warren Aviation Day Tennessee Valley Jamboree May Day Celebration Lewis Lewis County Saddle Club Horse Washington Spring Blossom Steam Train Show Specials Macon County Music Extravaganza Spring Doin's Civil War Show & Shine Antique/Classic Car Reenactment Show Springfest Madison Forked Deer River Festival Weakley Sharon Springtime Festival Shannon Street Blues & Heritage Williamson Franklin Rotary Club Rodeo Festival Heritage Foundation Town & McMinn Swift National Fly-In/Airshow Country Tour of Homes McNairy Bluegrass in the Campground PearFest Buford Pusser Festival Tennessee Renaissance Festival Summer in the Park Thompson Station Festival Montgomery Main Street MusicFest Herb Fair Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Wilson Civil War Days Spring Homecoming

County Event County Event Anderson Spring Heritage Festival Lawrence Summer Adventures Bedford Bell Buckle Flea Market Summertown Bluegrass Festival Nine Mile Bluegrass Festival Tennessee Valley Jamboree Bledsoe Spring Horse Show Lewis Lewis County Saddle Club Horse Cannon Gassaway Homecoming Show Carter Covered Bridge Festival Tennessee Walking Horse Show Jim & Jesse's Bluegrass Festival Loudon Lenoir City Arts & Crafts Festival Miller Homestead Saturdays Macon Hillbilly Day Native American Festival Walking Horse and Racking Show Nature Discovery Week Maury Jazz in June Rhododendron Festival McNairy Cars for Kids Summer Concert Series Log Roll and Raft Race Cheatham Kingston Springs Garden Tour Summer in the Park Chester Frontier Days Montgomery Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Claiborne Folk Fest and Heritage Days Moore Frontier Days Cocke Bluegrass Jam Perry Fishing Day Rodeo Dulcimer and Harp Convention Polk Kids Fishing Day R. A. Bright's Professional Rodeo Putnam Poppy Festival Smoky Mountain Antique Engine Roane Fishing Rodeo & Tractor Show Living History Days Coffee Paul Pyle Dulcimer Festival National Barrel Horse Association Cumberland Concerts in the Park State Finals Davidson Balloon Classic Rutherford Exchange Club Horse Show Celtic Music Festival Sam Davis Home Civil War Show Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. and Sale Cheekwood Summer Music Series Sequatchie Coke Ovens Bluegrass Festival International Country Music Fan Horse Show Fair Sevier American Eagle Festival Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society Shelby Germantown Charity Horse Show Concert Series Juneteenth Celebration Giles Horseless Carriage Days Memphis Italian Festival Old Time Bluegrass Festival & Wetland Walk Craft Fair Summerfest Old Timer's Day Sunset on the Square Concert Saddle Club Rodeo Series Greene Mosheim Fun Fest Smith Civitan Horse Show Hamilton Nightfall Concert Series Defeated Creek Bluegrass Festival River Reunion and Artist Walk Gordonsville Fun Festival Riverbend Festival Stewart Heritage Sunday Hardin Long Hunter Rendezvous Sumner Golden Fleece Festival Henderson Gospel Music Festival Rock Castle Big Band Concert Battle of Parker's Crossroads Re- Rose Mont Renaissance enactment and Living History Wynnewood Celebration Demonstration Tipton Walking Horse Show Fayette Music in the Park Union Free Fishing Day Jefferson Chestnut Hill Horse Show Junior Fish-A-Thon Johnson Trade Days Festival SummerFest Knox Kuumba Festival Warren Dottie West Music Fest Hot Summer Nights Concert Series Washington Music on the Square Statehood Day Celebration White Martha White-Lester Flatt Lake Pontoon Boat Cruises Hometown Memorial Festival Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Williamson Symphony on the Lawn

County Event County Event Anderson July 4th Celebration and Anvil Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Shoot Summer Adventures Bedford Country Fair Tennessee Valley Jamboree Great Celebration Mule Show Lewis Lewis County Saddle Club Horse Benton Summer Song Festival Show Cannon Woodbury Horse Show Oak Grove Fish Fry Carter Butterfly Count Macon Folk Medicine Festival Carter "The Wataugans" Outdoor Drama Rawhide World Champion Rodeo Summer Concert Series Marshall Invitational Tractor Pull Miller Homestead Saturdays Maury Athenaeum Girls School Cumberland Concerts in the Park McNairy Summer in the Park Davidson Celebration of Culture Montgomery Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Moore Walking Horse Show Cheekwood Summer Music Series Morgan Civilian Conservation Corps Living History Encampment Reunion Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society Overton Pioneer Days Concert Series Polk Miner's Homecoming DeKalb Smithville Fiddlers' Jamboree Rhea Scopes Trial Play and Festival Dickson Dickson County Farm Tour Spring City Car Show and Craft Dickson Saddle & Bridle Club Fair Horse Show Roane Independence Day at the Fort White Bluff Festival and Fiddlers Living History Days Contest Roane Riverfest Celebration Fentress Bluegrass Festival Robertson Tennessee-Kentucky Chicken Festival Threshermen's Show Fentress County Horse Show Trash and Treasures Franklin Sewanee Music Festival Rutherford Civil War Encampment Gibson Doodle Soup Festival Uncle Dave Macon Days Dyer Station Celebration Sevier Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair No-Till Field Day Heritage Days Giles Walking Horse Show Shelby Memphis Music & Heritage Grainger Tomato Festival Festival Greene Bluegrass and Gospel Music Fest Wetland Walk Buffalo Run Cruise-In Sunset on the Square Concert Horse Show Series Grundy Grundy Swiss Historical Society Sullivan Folklife Festival Festival Fun Fest Hamilton Nightfall Concert Series Fun Fest Farm Fest Pops in the Park Raid on the Watauga River Reunion and Artist Walk Van Buren Mountain Homecoming Hardeman Lions Club Horse Show Washington East Tennessee Toy Market Show Hardin Civil War Encampment and and Sale Fireworks Display Historic Jonesborough Days National Catfish Derby Celebration Tennessee River Bluegrass Festival Music on the Square Humphreys St. Patrick Irish Picnic and Wayne 4th of July Celebration Homecoming Williamson Bluegrass on the Harpeth Knox Hot Summer Nights Concert Series Nolensville Charity Horse Show Lake Pontoon Boat Cruises Wilson CedarFest Lauderdale Tomato Festival Watertown Jazz Festival

County Event Johnson Bluegrass Down on the Farm Bledsoe 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Mountain Heritage Days & Rodeo Outdoor Sale Festival Bradley Cherokee Days of Recognition Old Butler Days Cannon Red Apple Days Old Time Fiddler's Convention Carter Summer Concert Series Knox Artfest Miller Homestead Saturdays Hot Summer Nights Concert Series Clay Homecoming Days Tennessee State Racking Horse Cocke Christy Mission Homecoming Show Coffee Flintknapping Workshop Lake Pontoon Boat Cruises Crockett West Tennessee Cotton Festival Lauderdale Halls AirSho Hickman Middle Tennessee Gem & Mineral Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Show David Crockett Days Cumberland 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Summer Adventures Outdoor Sale Tennessee Valley Jamboree Concerts in the Park Lewis Lewis County Saddle Club Horse Show Davidson Americana Summer Sampler Craft, Loudon Smoky Mountain Fiddler's Folk Art, and Antique Show Convention Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Marshall Belfast Walking Horse Show Cheekwood Summer Music Series McNairy Summer in the Park Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society Montgomery Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Concert Series Moore Spotted Horse Show DeKalb Log Jam Overton Antique Car Show Dickson Lights Along the Cumberland Pickett 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Charlotte Festival Outdoor Sale Fentress 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Roane Living History Days Outdoor Sale Robertson Bell Witch Bluegrass Competition Jamestown Jamboree Sequatchie 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Gibson International Washer Pitchin' Outdoor Sale Contest Sevier World Premiere Gospel Concert Giles Ardmore Crepemyrtle Festival Shelby Wetland Walk Vaudeville Days at the Reid Tipton Brighton Reunion Theater Union Bluegrass Music Festival Greene Davy Crockett Celebration Warren "Fire on the Mountain" Gospel Hamblen Davy Crockett Birthday Concert Celebration Viola Valley Homecoming and Hamilton 450 Mile Highway 127 Corridor Festival Outdoor Sale Washington Appalachian Fair Nightfall Concert Series Music on the Square River Reunion and Artist Walk Quiltfest Henderson Natchez Days Williamson Franklin Jazz Festival National Championship Rodeo Military Artifacts Exhibit Parker's Crossroads Racking Horse Summer Camp and Southern Show Folklife Festival Steer Wrestling Competition

County Event September

County Event Bedford Quilt Walk County Event Tennessee Walking Horse Bledsoe Mountaineer Folk Festival National Celebration Blount Country Fair Benton Tennessee River Folklife & Music Townsend Heritage Festival and Festival Old Timers Day Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 160 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Cannon Cornbread and Beans Days Show Lincoln Pumpkin Patch Festival County Event Carroll Heritage Festival County Event Carter Fall Festival Macon Antique Car Show Overmountain Victory Trail Madison Archaeofest Celebration and March Marion Whitwell Labor Day Celebration Fort Watauga Knap-In Maury Majestic Middle Tennessee Fall Summer Concert Series Tour Miller Homestead Saturdays McNairy Broomcorn Festival Chester County Barbecue Festival Jammin’ Jamboree Claiborne Fall Bluegrass Jam Summer in the Park Cocke Labor Day Celebration Monroe Sequoyah Festival & Pow Wow Cumberland Concerts in the Park Trade Faire Davidson African Street Festival Montgomery Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Bowen House Vintage Auto Expo Riverfest Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Morgan Historic Rugby Pilgrimage Cheekwood Summer Music Series Obion Pontotoc Festival Hermitage Harvest Fair Overton National Rolley Hole Marble Italian Street Fair Tournament Living History Encampment Putnam Fall Fun Fest Tennessee State Fair Middle Tennessee Antique Tractor Dyer Newbern Depot Days Show Fayette Fayette County Cotton Festival Upper Cumberland Quilt Festival Fentress Muddy Pond Molasses Stir-Off Rhea Labor Day Fall Festival Old Timers Day Music Festival Roane Harriman Street Festival Giles Iron Horse Picnic Living History Days PACE Antique Car Show Rutherford Pioneer Power Days Greene Baileyton Celebration Scott Sorghum Festival Grundy Mountaineer's Day Winfield Appalachian Dumpling Hamilton Nightfall Concert Series Festival Hardin Saltillo River Day Shelby Bartlett Celebration Sunset Symphony Chickasaw Bluffs Appreciation Day Hawkins Riverfront Festival Germantown Festival Henderson Antique Tractor Show International Goat Days Festival Labor Day Weekend Mid-South Fair Henry Eiffel Tower Day and Balloon Wetland Walk Festival Stewart Harvest Celebration and Trades Fair Pioneer Days River Days Hickman Duck River Music & Arts Festival Sullivan Fall Folk Arts Festival Coble Homecoming Old Time Fiddlers and Bluegrass Jefferson "Agri-Culture" Festival Molasses Festival Tipton Celebrate Munford Johnson Bluegrass Rally in the Valley Heritage Day Festival Knox Artfest Union Falling Water Festival Boomsday Van Buren Mountaineer Folk Festival Governor John Sevier Days Warren Warren County Fair (Recreation of Colonial Festival Pioneer McMinnville) Hot Summer Nights Concert Series Washington Music on the Square Smoky Mountain Jam Picnic in the Park Pops Concert Tennessee Valley Fair Times of the Tiptons Lake Pontoon Boat Cruises Wayne Collinwood Old Timer's Day Roundhouse Music Reunion Labor Day Trail Ride Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Weakley Friends of Big Cypress Tree Tennessee Valley Jamboree Festival Summer Adventures Tator Town Special Lewis Lewis County Saddle Club Horse Tennessee Soybean Festival Wilson Middle Tennessee Native American Exploring Tennessee Field Trip Guide 161 © 2003 The Notgrass Company Indian Pow Wow Watertown Hoedown October

County Event County Event Anderson Coal Miners Reunion Lewis Quilt Show Fall Color Boat Trips Lincoln Pumpkin Patch Festival Tennessee Fall Homecoming Loudon October Fest Bledsoe Fall Colors Weekend Macon Heritage Days and Sorghum Festival Wild Foods Day Madison Rocktoberfest Campbell Fall Fest Marion Fall Color Cruise and Folk Festival Cheatham Oktoberfest Ketner's Mill Country Fair Claiborne Scots-Irish-English Days Marshall October Pumpkin Festival Cocke Newport Harvest Street Festival Maury Civil War Battle Re-enactment Cocke On Cosby Festival and Drama McNairy Fall Bluegrass Breakdown Cumberland Concerts in the Park Monroe Japanese Quilt Show Pioneer Day on the Mountain Montgomery Jazz on the Lawn Concert Series Davidson Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Oktoberfest Cheekwood Summer Music Series Obion Waterfowl Festival Civil War Re-enactment Pickett Cordell Hull Folk Festival Fall Music Festival Polk Chilhowee Mountain Harvest Festival Living History Encampment Putnam Brown Bag Lunch Concerts Music and Molasses Festival Cherokee Pilgrimage NAIA Pow Wow and Fall Festival Roane East Tennessee Antiques, Tractors, Oktoberfest and Engine Show Southern Festival of Books Living History Days Dickson Cumberland Furnace Fall Festival Ole Fashion Trade Fair Fayette Architectural Treasures of Fayette Rutherford Cannonsburgh Harvest Day Festival County Heart of Tenn. Scottish Celebration Fentress Bacara's Oktoberfest Heritage Days Great Pumpkin Festival & Weigh-Off Sam Davis' Birthday Muddy Pond Molasses Stir-Off Sequatchie Coke Ovens Fall Festival Gibson Davy Crockett Days Celebration Sevier Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair Giles Antique Tractor and Machinery Show Harvest Celebration Milky Way Festival Shelby Arts in the Park Festival Greene Battle of Blue Springs Civil War Fullerfest Re-enactment James Logan Colbert Living Encamp. Hamblen Mountain Makins' Festival Mid-South Fair Hamilton Celebration of Fine Crafts Mulberry Festival Fall Color Cruise and Folk Festival Smith Fall Heritage Festival Fall Foliage Stewart Homeplace 1850 Wedding Southern Folk Festival Sullivan Harvest Happenings Hardeman Cultural Resource Field Day Sassafras Tours Tennessee Forest Festival Sumner Candlelight Cemetery Tour Hawkins Heritage Days Daniel Smith Days Mount Carmel Fall Festival Main Street Festival Haywood Brownsville Blues Fall Festival Upper Sumner Fall Color Tour Henderson Possum Festival Wynnewood Autumn Harvest Henry Octoberfest Unicoi Apple Festival Hickman Auto Show Union Octoberfest Jefferson "Agri-Culture" Van Buren Fall Colors Weekend Old Time Saturday Warren Lawnchair Jam Story-Telling Festival Washington Cranberry Festival Johnson Cranberry Festival Fall Doll Show & Sale Knox Artfest Fall Foliage Special Steam Train Head of the Tennessee Regatta Excursion Lake Pontoon Boat Cruises National Storytelling Festival Lauderdale Choctaw Indian Festival Wayne Pumpkin Harvest Festival Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Williamson Fairview Nature Fest Lewis Oktober Heritage Festival Historic Brentwood Tour of Homes

November

County Event County Event Benton Black Powder Competition (Civil Lauderdale Civil War Discovery Weekend War) Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Bradley Tellabration Maury Commemoration of James K. Polk's Campbell Battle of Pine Mountain Civil War Birthdate Reenactment Tellabration Carter Thanksgiving Garrison at Fort McMinn Doll Show Watauga Morgan Christmas in the Mountains Davidson Americana Christmas Sampler Roane NCA Finals Rodeo Craft, Folk Art, and Antique Show Robertson Apple Butter Festival Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Rutherford Visions of Sugarplums Christmas at Belmont Sevier Sevier County High School's Nativity Display Veterans Program Trees of Christmas Tellabration Victorian Christmas Shelby Tellabration Victorian Thanksgiving Smith Holiday Open House Dickson Christmas in the Country Stewart Christmas 1850 Dyer Veterans Day Parade Sullivan Airborne Memorabilia Fayette Home for the Holidays (Paratrooper) Show Giles Nutcracker Festival Tellabration Hamilton Enchanted Garden of Lights Sumner Tellabration Fall Foliage Washington Tellabration Tellabration Williamson Anniversary of the Battle of Henry Artist Showcase Franklin Knox Foothills Craft Guild Show and Battle of Franklin Memorial March Sale Wilson Tellabration Tellabration

County Event County Event Anderson Christmas in Old Appalachia Macon Candlelight Tour of Homes Benton Camden Christmas Extravaganza Madison New Year's Eve Gospel Bradley 19th-Century Cherokee Christmas Celebration Carter Christmas at the Carter Mansion Maury Tennessee Plantation Christmas Christmas Garrison at Fort McMinn Doll Show Watauga Monroe Christmas at Fort Loudon Madrigal Dinners Moore Christmas in Lynchburg Claiborne Victorian Christmas Morgan Christmas at Historic Rugby Cocke Mimosa Manor Tours Rhea Christmas at the Courthouse Davidson Bowen Plantation Christmas Open Roane Colonial Christmas Party House Cornstalk Heights Christmas Cheekwood's Saturday A.M. Home Tours Christmas at Belmont Holiday Home Tours Living History Encampment Rutherford Anniversary of the Battle of Stones Nativity Display River Trees of Christmas Bethlehem Marketplace Tribute to African Americans in Cannonsburgh Christmas Open the Battle of Nashville House Twelfth Night Celebration Town and Country Tour of Homes Victorian Christmas Visions of Sugarplums Dickson Cumberland Furnace Christmas in Shelby Dickens on the Square the Village The Forest in Winter Fayette Holiday Tour of Homes Germantown Invitational Soccer Giles Living Nativity Tournament Greene Andrew Johnson Homestead Stewart Christmas 1850 Christmas Tour Sullivan 1791 Candlelight Tours Andrew Johnson Birthday 1818 Candlelight Christmas Commemoration Christmas at Allandale Hamblen Christmas on Main Street Christmas in the Country & Yule Gingerbread House Contest Log Burning Hamilton Chattanooga Choo Choo Victorian First Night Kingsport Holidays Open House Sumner Hendersonville Christmas Enchanted Garden of Lights Pilgrimage Winter Days and Lights Historical Sites Open House Hardin Victorian Christmas Celebration Trousdale Christmas Tour of Homes Henry Christmas Concert Washington Christmas in Olde Jonesborough Hickman Christmas Tour of Homes Festival of Trees Jackson Cumberland Heritage Christmas Holiday Tour of Homes and Johnson Tour of Homes Churches Knox Downtown Celebration of Lights Visions of Christmas Nativity Pageant Williamson Carter House Candlelight Tour of Lawrence Ani-Kawi Archery Shoot Homes Lewis Christmas Tour of Homes Christmas at Carnton Lincoln Host of Christmas Past Dickens of a Christmas Wilson Christmas in the Country

Spring

County Event County Event Blount British Car Show Grundy Wildflower Garden Cannon Auburntown's Horseshow Knox Jubilee International Festival Good Old Days Maury Spring Pilgrimage Carter Muster at Fort Watauga McMinn Quilt Show Claiborne Appalachian Reflections Monroe Haru: A View of Spring Encampment of the Severed Union Rutherford Jazz Fest Davidson Running of the Iroquois Memorial Weakley Fiddlestick Extravaganza Steeplechase Tennessee Iris Festival Tennessee Crafts Festival

Summer

County Event County Event Cannon Auburntown's Horseshow Johnson Shady Valley Bluegrass Festival Claiborne Tunnel Run Car Show Shelby IPRA National Championship Cumberland TennFest Rodeo Gibson Kenton White Squirrel Stewart Riverboat Visits Homecoming Sumner Unique Summer Koncerts Henry Musical Programs at Paris Landing State Park

Fall

County Event County Event Cannon Auburntown's Horseshow Madison Casey Jones Ballon Classic Claiborne Colonial Trade Faire Monroe Autumn Gold Festival Davidson Tennessee Crafts Festival Montgomery Fall Pilgrimage Hancock Fall Festival Obion Fall Fest Celebration Hardeman Fur, Fin, and Feathers Festival Smith Cruzin' the Cumberland Henry Storytelling Festival Stewart Riverboat Visits Hickman Hickman County Marching Classic Tipton Day in the Park Little Lot Homecoming Trousdale Cruzin' the Cumberland Jackson Cruzin' the Cumberland Wilson Cruzin' the Cumberland

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WEBSITES

The Official State of Tennessee Website U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - www.tennesseeanytime.com Tennessee Areas southeast.fws.gov/maps/tn.html Tennessee Valley Authority www.tva.gov In and Around Tennessee www.inandaround.com TNGenWeb www.tngenweb.org National Scenic Byways Online A free online genealogy project for the state www.byways.org of Tennessee. Tennessee History Websites MapQuest www.wths.tn.org/tn.websites.html www.mapquest.com Tennessee Online MapQuest offers online maps, driving www.tennesseehistory.com directions, and other travel information to Historical information, pictures, and links. help you get where you're going.

National Parks Tennessee Encyclopedia of History www.nps.gov/parks.html and Culture tennesseeencyclopedia.net National Register of Historic Places An extensive collection of articles and www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrhome.html media based on the printed encyclopedia of the same name.

National Weather Service Tennessee Relay System for the Weather conditions and predictions to help Hearing Impaired you plan your travels. Phone: 800-848-0298 Phone Numbers Tennessee State Library and Archives Memphis: 901-544-0399 The website contains information on the Nashville: 615-754-4633 state and regional libraries, and links to Morristown: 423-586-3771 reference sites. Website: www.nws.noaa.gov 403 Seventh Avenue North Tennessee Arts Commission Nashville, TN 37243-0312 401 Charlotte Avenue Phone: 615-741-2764 Nashville, TN 37243-0780 Website: Phone: 615-741-1701 www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/tslahome.htm Fax: 615-741-8559 Tennessee State Natural Areas Tennessee Department of Agriculture Phone: 615-532-0436 Information on Tennessee products. E-mail: [email protected] Market Development Division Website: www.tdec.net/nh/natareas/ P.O. Box 40627 Tennessee State Parks Nashville, TN 37204 401 Church Street Phone: 615-360-0160 Nashville, TN 37243-0446 Website: picktnproducts.org Phone: 888-867-2757 or 615-532-0001 Tennessee Department of Website: Tourist Development www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/ 320 Sixth Avenue North Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Fifth Floor, Rachel Jackson Building Information on hunting, fishing, and Nashville, TN 37243 boating in Tennessee. Phone: 800-491-8366 Ellington Agricultural Center Website: www.tnvacation.com P.O. Box 40747 Tennessee Department of Transporation Nashville, TN 37204 Interstate Construction Hotline Phone: 615-781-6500 Phone: 800-858-6349 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.state.tn.us/twra/ Tennessee Historical Commission Records, preserves, interprets, and publicizes events, persons, sites, structures, and objects significant to Tennessee history. Clover Bottom Mansion 2941 Lebanon Road Nashville, TN 37243-0442 Phone: 615-532-1550 Website: www.tennessee.gov/environment/hist/

WEST TENNESSEE

Memphis Delta Tourism Organization Tourism Association of P.O. Box 53 Southwest Tennessee Collierville, TN 38027 P.O. Box 450 Phone: 901-854-6123 Henderson, TN 38340-0450 Phone: 800-967-2576 or 901-423-6937 Northwest Tennessee Fax: 901-989-3592 Tourism Organization E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 807 Website: www.tast.tn.org Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 901-642-9955 West Tennessee Heritage and Fax: 901-644-3051 Community Tourism Development E-mail: [email protected] 225 Martin Luther King, Suite 305 Websites: Jackson, TN 38301 www.reelfootlakeoutdoors.com Phone: 901-426-0888 Fax: 901-426-0890

MIDDLE TENNESSEE

Circle Nashville Middle Tennessee Heritage and P.O. Box 864 Community Tourism Development Murfreesboro, TN 37133-0864 320 Sixth Ave. N., 5th Floor Phone: 800-716-7560 or 615-893-6565 Rachel Jackson Bldg. Nashville, TN 37243 Tennessee Antebellum Trail Phone: 615-741-9045 A 90-mile driving tour connecting dozens Fax: 615-741-7225 of historic sites. Phone: 800-381-1865 South Central Tennessee Tourism Organization Tennessee's Backroads Heritage 215 Frank Street An organization composed of Bedford, Lawrenceburg, TN 38464 Coffee, Franklin, and Moore Counties, and Phone: 615-762-6944 the Cumberland Mountain area spreading from Monteagle to Beersheba Springs. Tennessee Natchez Trace 300 South Jackson Street Corridor Association Tullahoma, TN 37388 203 Third Avenue South Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Franklin, TN 37064 E-mail: [email protected] or Phone: 615-794-5555 [email protected] Upper Cumberland Tourism Association Website: P.O. Box 2411 www.cyber-time.com/tnbkrds/default.htm Cookeville, TN 38502 Greater Nashville Regional Tourism Phone: 800-868-7237 or 931-520-1088 Council 501 Union Street, Sixth Floor Nashville, TN 37219-1705 Phone: 615-862-8828

Cumberland Trail Conference Southeast Tennessee Tourism This organization is in the process of Association building a trail system from Cumberland 2 Broad Street Gap National Park to Signal Point near Chattanooga, TN 37402 Chattanooga. Several sections are Phone: 423-756-8687 completed, and the State of Tennessee has Southeast Tennessee recognized it as a State Park. Offers information on Bledsoe, Bradley, 19 East 4th Street Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Crossville, TN 38555 Meigs, Polk, Rhea, and Sequatchie counties. Phone: 931-456-6259 E-mail: [email protected] Websites: Website: www.setenn.org www.cumberlandtrail.org www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/ Tennessee's Backroads Heritage cumbtrail/ An organization composed of Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Metro Moore counties and East Tennessee Heritage and the Cumberland Mountain area spreading Community Tourism Development from Monteagle to Beersheba Springs. 531 Henley Street 300 South Jackson Street 703 New State Office Building Tullahoma, TN 37388 Knoxville, TN 37902 Phone: 800-799-6131 or 931-454-9446 Phone: 865-594-5500 E-mail: [email protected] or Fax: 865-594-6532 [email protected] Middle East Tennessee Tourism Council Website: 5616 Kingston Pike www.cyber-time.com/tnbkrds/default.htm P.O. Box 19806 Tennessee Overhill Heritage Knoxville, TN 37939-2806 Tourism Association Phone: 865-584-8553 Includes Polk, McMinn, and Monroe E-mail: [email protected] Counties. Website: www.korrnet.org/natutour/ P.O. Box 143 Northeast Tennessee Tourism 727 Tennessee Avenue Association Etowah, TN 37331 Includes Carter, Claiborne, Grainger, Phone: 423-263-7232 Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Fax: 423-263-1670 Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington Counties. E-mail: [email protected] 109 Fox Avenue Website: www.tennesseeoverhill.com P.O. Box 415 Tennessee Overhill Experience Jonesborough, TN 37659 P.O. Box 193 Phone: 423-753-4188, ext. 25 Etowah, TN 37331 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 423-263-7232 Website: www.netta.com