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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Rhea County, Tennessee
Adjacent to Rhea County, Tennessee
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On Rhea County Highway (U.S. 27) just north of Chickamauga Drive, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Bryan College was named to honor William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), American statesman,
orator, three-time democratic presidential candidate, former secretary of state, and
spokesman for religious orthodoxy in the modernist-fundamentalist . . . — — Map (db m150437) HM |
| Near Washington Pike 0.1 miles south of Old Washington Highway (Tennessee Route 30). |
| | 1750 1812
Revolutionary War soldier
David Campbell Major-VA
1st Clerk of Washington County, VA
Marker placed by Judge David Campbell Chap., NSDAR
2011 — — Map (db m150531) WM |
| On Market Street at Florida Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Market Street. |
| | Old Cornerstone
In 1832, the tree that marked the corner between John Abel and Robert Cosby was replaced with the stone by this plaque.
Smith's Crossroads
On Highway 30 west at the outskirts of Dayton, there is a Trail of Tears . . . — — Map (db m55805) HM |
| On Market Street (Tennessee Route 30) north of 2nd Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | (left brick column near sidewalk)
Rhea County
Courthouse
1891
Site of
Scopes Evolution Trial
1925
National Historic
Landmark
1977
(right brick column near sidewalk)
Scopes Evolution Trial . . . — — Map (db m82313) HM |
| On Market Street at 2nd Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Market Street. |
| | In honor of the gallant men and women
of Rhea County
who participated in the struggle
to keep American mighty and free
WORLD WAR II
(left plaque)
U.S. Army
Allen, Glen C. • Atkins, William M. • Baker, John C. • . . . — — Map (db m54246) WM |
| On Market Street (Tennessee Route 27) at W. Delaware Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Market Street. |
| | Named for pioneer settler William Smith, a New England teacher and merchant, who settled here in 1820, it was the junction of the Kiuka War Trace (later Black Fox Trail) to the Cumberland and the main north-south Indian trail to the Great Lakes. . . . — — Map (db m4053) HM |
| On North Market Street (Tennessee Route 30), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Here, from July 10 to 21, 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a county high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower order of animals, in violation of a lately passed state law. William Jennings Bryan assisted the prosecution; . . . — — Map (db m82314) HM |
| On Old Washington Highway (State Highway 30) 0.8 miles east of Old Dixie Highway (State Highway 302), on the right when traveling east. |
| | About 1807, Conley Hastings established a ferry at this site. Originally, it provided transportation between the town of Washington to the west and the Cherokee Territory to the east of the river, and later between the Rhea and Meigs County seats of . . . — — Map (db m150312) HM |
| On N. Market Street (Tennessee Route 27) near 3rd Avenue (Tennessee Route 30), on the left when traveling north. |
| | (Marker front):
William Jennings Bryan
1860 - 1925
Presidential Nominee
Secretary of State
Congressman
Christian Statesman
Author and Orator
(On the statue's proper left):
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a . . . — — Map (db m54243) HM |
| On Wassom Memorial Highway east of Hemlock Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Founded 1884 by the American Missionary Assoc., this school prepared students from the hill country of East Tenn. for college entrance, Christian works, or teaching in elementary schools. Improved public schools caused Grandview to close its doors . . . — — Map (db m69233) HM |
| On Tennessee Route 303, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On this site was founded Graysville Academy by a group of Seventh-day Adventists who were organized as a church on Sept. 8, 1888. Recognizing the need for training young people in order that the work of the church in the South could be expanded, a . . . — — Map (db m26018) HM |
| On J Lon Foust Highway / Rhea County Highway (U.S. 27 at milepost 0), 0.6 miles south of Old Graysville Road (State Route 303), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Rhea County
Established 1807; named in honor of
John Rhea
Revolutionary veteran, who fought at King's Mountain. Delegate to the North Carolina Convention which ratified the U.S. Constitution; member of the Tennessee Constitutional . . . — — Map (db m26017) HM |
| On Front Street at West Rhea Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Front Street. |
| | Walden’s Ridge, directly ahead, was a natural obstacle to east-west military movements during the war. In 1862–1863, Confederate authorities ordered three Rhea County cavalry companies to patrol the passes there between Emory Gap (north) and . . . — — Map (db m69235) HM |
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