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Alex Haley Home and Museum
On the porch of this house, Haley heard the family stories that inspired him to write Roots.
more like this »Ames Plantation
The 18,430-acre Ames Plantation is the site of several 19th century cotton plantations.
more like this »Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site includes the tailor shop where Johnson worked in the 1830s and two of his homes, both restored, one containing many of his personal belongings.
more like this »Beale Street Historic District
It was here in the early 1900s that W.C. Handy first popularized and published the blues, a unique African-American contribution to American music.
more like this »Belle Meade Plantation
Known as "Queen of Tennessee Plantations," the Harding family's Belle Meade Plantation, once over 5,300 acres, was world renowned as a thoroughbred stud farm in the nineteenth century.
more like this »Blount Mansion
In 1792, the four-room Blount Mansion became the talk of the town. Knoxvillians were amazed as materials and furnishings were brought in over the mountains for the home of William Blount, an influential politician and businessman who signed the U.S. Constitution, drafted Tennessee’s Constitution, and was the Governor of the Southwest Territory.
more like this »Cades Cove
Cades Cove is one of several special communities in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park exhibiting reconstructions of the pioneer way of life.
more like this »Carter House
The Carter House commemorates the tragic Civil War Battle of Franklin, said to have been one of the bloodiest in the nineteenth century.
more like this »Chester Inn
The Chester Inn, built in 1797 by Dr. William P. Chester of Berlin, Pennsylvania, has earned a reputation as the first boarding house in eastern Tennessee
more like this »Chickamauga/Chattanooga National Military Park
In the fall of 1863, Union and Confederate forces met at Chickamauga Creek in one of the bloodiest battles in American history. The site includes the battlefields, the Fuller Gun collection, a multi-media presentation on the battles, the National Cemetery, and monuments to units on both sides.
more like this »Chucalissa Prehistoric Indian Village
Chucalissa is a working reconstruction of a 1,000-year-old Indian village that flourished along the eastern shore of the Mississippi River, with grass thatched huts, a temple, and a ceremonial burial ground.
more like this »Cordell Hull Birthplace and Museum
This is the log cabin boyhood home of Cordell Hull, secretary of state under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose work toward the establishment of the United Nations won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.
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