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Austin Peay State University
Founded in 1927 APSU is home to award-winning music, art and sports. Several art galleries are located on campus along with hundreds of theatre productions and musical performances each year. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Clarksville, TN
Phone: 931-221-7979
Oaklands Historic House Museum
An elegant mansion caught in the crossfire of the Civil War – This nationally registered, historic landmark reflects a time of prosperity in the Old South, as well as the hardships suffered during the Civil War. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Murfreesboro, TN
Phone: 615-893-0022
Obion County Museum
History museum featuring furnished log cabin and one-room schoolhouse. Changing displays of local history and general interest, also local artists. ...more
Region: Northwest
City: Union City, TN
Phone: 731-885-6774
Old Spencer Mill
One of last all-original, dualstone gristmills with newly restored water well in Tennessee. Antiques/gift shop; grist mill products and handmade items made on-site; custom-made period clothing. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Burns, TN
Phone: 615-412-5169
Old Timers Restaurant
Stop for a bite to eat and a quick trip
through Millington’s history at this local
favorite. The restaurant proudly displays a
large collection of rare historic photographs
of the town, dating back to the early 1900s. ...more
Region: West Tennessee
City: Millington, TN
Phone: 901-872-6464
Overton County Heritage Museum
Renovated jail tells the story of Overton County from early explorers to present. WPA/CCC projects of the 1930s, African-American section, Alpine Institute pictures and artifacts, one room devoted to schools, Civil War and military. ...more
Region: Upper Cumberland
City: Livingston, TN
Phone: 931-403-0909
Paris Henry County Heritage Center
The Heritage Center is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the history of Paris and Henry County, Tennessee.
Anyone can be a member of the Heritage Center. ...more
Paris Historic Downtown
Unique shops and cafes surround one of the oldest courthouses in Tennessee with antique stores and walking tours of the historic downtown area. ...more
Phillips General Store Antiques
Over 100 year-old dry goods store with original fixtures, vignettes of antique treasures, primitives, architectural fragments and textiles. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Bell Buckle, TN
Phone: (931) 389-6547
Pin Oak Lodge at Natchez Trace State Park
With the many acres of scenic woodlands, the park includes four lakes, a swimming beach, a 47 room resort inn and restaurant complex, cabins, group lodge, camping areas, picnicking sites, playgrounds, a ball field, a regulation pistol firing range, picturesque hiking trails, a wrangler camp, 250 miles of horse riding trails, a park store and archery range. Located at I-40, exit 116, this area is composed of a State Park, State Forest and a Wildlife Management Area, with a total of 48,000 acres. ...more
Region: Southwest
City: Wildersville, TN
Phone: 731-968-8176
Pinch Historic District
The newest entertainment area in downtown Memphis. "The Pinch" has seven restaurant/bars with live entertainment. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-525-4444
Pioneer Hall Museum
Built between the years of 1887 and 1889, Pioneer Hall
housed the first dormitory for the Pleasant Hill Academy, a mission school established in the 1884 to educate “mountain boys and
girls in Christian education. ” So important was Pioneer Hall, it was the first building in the county to be placed on the National Historic Register. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: Pleasant Hill, TN
Phone: 931-277-5313
Pittman Center Heritage Museum
The community of Pittman Center had a strong desire to showcase its cultural heritage, and out of that desire came the Pittman Center Heritage Museum, located in the new Pittman Center Elementary School. The motto for the museum is “heritage is that which we have received from our ancestors and are obligated to pass on,” and the museum passes that heritage along through artifacts, archives and local stories on display. ...more
Region: Smoky Mountains
City: Gatlinburg, TN
Phone: 865-436-5499
Promised Land Trail
The Promised Land Trail is waiting for you: discover the fertile land that beckoned Tennessee’s first settlers from Northeast Tennessee, over the Cumberland Plateau, into Nashville and beyond.
Along the first road into Tennessee, the Avery Trace, as well as the historic Walton Road that ran parallel to Highway 70, many believed they would reach a “promised land” at the end of the journey, as many were seeking lands they were granted from service to the new country. ...more
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