Historic Roads & Trails
The path paved by African Americans in Tennessee was one long and arduous, etched with trials and triumphs, tragedy and victory.
Today, the challenges faced by African Americans throughout the generations, and the accomplishments that followed, are commemorated in the dedicated museums, monuments, landmarks and preserved sites throughout the state.
Matt Gardner Homestead Museum
House Museum and Farmstead
The Matt Gardner House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as a significant farmstead associated with African American heritage, agriculture, commerce, and architecture from 1870 to 1942. The farm provides for the interpretation of a variety of significant historical topics, including slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, education, religion, architecture, and agriculture. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Elkton, TN
Phone: (931) 468-0121
Meharry Medical College
Established in 1915 as the first medical school in the South for the education of black physicians. Meharry alumni continue to make up nearly half of the African-American physicians and dentists in the South. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
Phone: 615-327-6111
Memphis Pink Palace Museum
Discover Mid-South history at the Pink Palace, a regional, cultural and natural history museum with planetarium and IMAX Theater. Traveling exhibits offered three times a year. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-636-2362
Military Memorial Museum
Come see Crossville's tribute to our military, featuring items from the Civil War era up to the present time-Iraq.
Artifacts from Camp Crossville (P. ...more
Region: Upper Cumberland
City: Crossville, TN
Phone: 931-456-5520
Mississippi River Museum
Eighteen-gallery museum of the natural and cultural history of the lower Mississippi River. Over 5,000 artifacts tell the river's story of early settlement, riverboats and barges, the Civil War on the river and delta music from Blues to Rock and Roll. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-576-7241
Mount Ararat Cemetery
Nashville's first African-American cemetery, founded in 1869 by local African-American leaders. In 1982, it was acquired by Greenwood Cemetery, restored and renamed Greenwood West. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
Phone:
Museum Center at 5ive Points
Experience Southern Appalachian regional history dating from Cherokee history up to today in our permanent exhibit, River of Time. Changing exhibits highlight interesting history topics, such as Cherokee history, Civil War, industrial history, as well as regional art. ...more
Region: Chattanooga & Southeast
City: Cleveland, TN
Phone: 423-339-5745
Museum of Ancient Brick
America's only ancient brick museum is located at the company headquarters of General Shale Brick in Johnson City. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Johnson City, TN
Phone: 423-282-4661
Nashville Black Heritage Tours
Offers tours of Nashville from an African-American perspective with emphasis on contributions made by African-Amercians, past and present. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Smyrna, TN
Phone: 615-890-8173
Nashville Public Library - Main
The Nashville Room, Special Collections Division, which is located on the main library's second floor, serves as a repository and research center for historic Nashville materials. The Division currently consists of the Nashville Room, the Civil Rights Room, the Nashville Banner Archives, and four Writer's Rooms. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
Phone: 615-862-5800
National Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum chronicles the Civil Rights Movement from slavery to present-day human rights movements. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-521-9699
Occupied Chattanooga
The Tennessee Riverfront here underwent significant change during the war. Confederates built forts near the river beginning in 1862. ...more
Region: Chattanooga & Southeast
City: Chattanooga, TN
Phone: 423-643-6081
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Established in the early 1800s, Odd Fellows Cemetery serves as the resting place for some of Knoxville's most prominent early African Americans, including Cal Johnson, Knoxville's first African American millionaire. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Knoxville, TN
Phone:
Orpheum Theatre
A restored historic landmark, 1928, hosting opera, ballet, concerts, touring Broadway shows and African Americans in popular Broadway plays and gospel musicals. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-525-7800
Take a journey into Tennessee's rich history and heritage on the Old Tennessee Trail. Over eighty points of interest take you from...
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