Historic Sites
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A. Schwab Dry Goods Store Memphis, Tennessee
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The store's family motto is, "If you can't find it at A. Schwab's, you're better off... |
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Appalachian Caverns And Campground Blountville, Tennessee
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For many years the cavern lay in silence broken only by the sound of the water, the... |
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Athenaeum Rectory Columbia, Tennessee
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Originally designed in 1835 as a home for Samuel Polk Walker, President James K. Polk's... |
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Biblical Resource Center Collierville, Tennessee
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The refurbished historic structure houses a library, theater, Bible lab, museum store,... |
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Boiling Spring Academy Brentwood, Tennessee
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The Boiling Spring Academy is a restored 1830 one room school house located in Primm... |
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Carnegie Center For Arts And History Jackson, Tennessee
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The present Carnegie Center for Arts and History, located in downtown Jackson, opened in... |
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Cookeville Depot Museum Cookeville, Tennessee
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Built in 1909, the Cookeville Depot Museum features a Middle Tennessee Railroad HO Scale... |
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Historic Downtown Franklin Franklin, Tennessee
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Historic Franklin, Tenn. is maintained by the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and... |
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Hotel Halbrook Railroad And Local History Museum Dickson, Tennessee
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The first floor lobby and an upstairs hotel room have been furnished to represent the... |
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Leipers Fork Village Franklin, Tennessee
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Today, Leipers Fork is the area of choice for families wanting a rural atmosphere and... |
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Lenoir City Museum Lenoir City, Tennessee
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Started in 1997, the museum was originally housed in Lenoir City's early city hall... |
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Memphis Brooks Museum Of Art Memphis, Tennessee
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Located in the heart of Memphis, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, is a dynamic cultural... |
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Old Spencer Mill Burns, Tennessee
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Built before 1856, this functioning gristmill is one of the last of its kind. The... |
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Sam Houston Schoolhouse Maryville, Tennessee
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Born in 1793, Sam Houston had no taste for farming. Instead, he enjoyed the Cherokee way... |
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Scopes Trial Museum And Rhea County Courthouse Dayton, Tennessee
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In 1925, the Rhea County Courthouse was the scene of the famous Scopes Evolution Trial,... |
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Sparta Rock House Sparta, Tennessee
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The small, stone Rock House, originally built to collect tolls on a private road, was... |
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Tennessee State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee
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The Capitol, still in use by state government, features numerous works of art, historical... |
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Wynnewood Castalian Springs, Tennessee
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Wynnewood is the largest extant log structure in Tennessee. It was built in 1828 by A. R... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
