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Historic Homes
With names like "Rattle and Snap," "Green Frog Village" and "Crescent Bend," you are immediately drawn into legends that lie within Tennessee's carefully preserved homes, villages, farms and surrounds.
Look into a graceful, early rural life at 1797 Ramsey House Plantation, with acreage, exhibits and an heirloom garden. Once considered "the most costly and most admired house in Tennessee," it is among the few surviving houses designed by Tennessee's first formally trained architect, Thomas Hope. Learn about the Overton legacy at 200-year-old Traveller's Rest Plantation and Museum at Traveller's Rest. Take in a reenactment as you tour the grounds, the home and the schoolhouse.
Historic Town of Cumberland Gap
The Historic Town of Cumberland Gap is nestled at the foot of Cumberland Mountains inside Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Breathtaking beauty and charming "Mayberry" atmosphere will greet you as you come into town. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Cumberland Gap, TN
Phone: 423-869-3860
Historic Town of Saltillo
Visit Saltillo, an early river town with homes dating from the 1840s. Styles of architecture range from Greek Revival and Italianate influences to country farmhouses. ...more
Region: Southwest
City: Saltillo, TN
Phone: 731-925-8181
Historic Watertown Square
Historic town square on the National Register of Historic Places. Arts and antiques shop. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Watertown, TN
Phone: (615) 237-9999
Holly Street Fire Hall
This 1914 fire house was the first in the city built to house motorized fire vehicles, and its been continuously used as a fire hall since its construction. Its a beloved part of the neighborhood and a favorite spot for kids and families to tour. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: Nashville, TN
Phone:
Homestead Manor
Much of the hard fighting in the Battle of Thompson;s Station took place on this property. The 1809 home sheltered many local women and children in its cellar as the battle took place. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Thompson's Station, TN
Phone: 615-790-2309
Homesteads Tower Museum
Showplace of FDR's New Deal Subsistence Homesteading. Tennessee's largest historic district, featuring a 1930s stone tower and farm life museum. ...more
Region: Upper Cumberland
City: Crossville, TN
Phone: 931-456-9663
Houston Museum of Decorative Arts
This museum showcases Anna Safley Houston's remarkable collection of 18th-, 19th- and early 20th-century decorative art objects. "Antique Annie" was a colorful, enigmatic character, a red-haired country girl who amassed one of the world's finest collections of antique glass, as well as a "collection" of at least nine husbands. ...more
Region: Chattanooga & Southeast
City: Chattanooga, TN
Phone: 423-267-7176
Hundred Oaks Castle
1800s historic structure. Former home of Governor Albert Marks. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Winchester, TN
Phone: 931-967-8583
Hunt Phelan Home
Built mostly by slave labor in 1828, the Hunt-Phelan Home displays a rich and elegant past. Several hundred slaves were taught English by members of the Freedmen's Bureau at an on-site school house. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-525-8225
James K. Polk Ancestral Home
Built in 1816, the only surviving home of the eleventh U. S. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Columbia, TN
Phone: 931-388-2354
James Webb House
(Private Residence) This two-story 1850 Italianate design residence originally sat on 500 acres of land granted to James Webb's father by the U. S. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: College Grove, TN
Phone:
James White Fort
James White, The Founder of Knoxville, came here in the early 1780's from North Carolina. He had fought in the Revolutionary War and was given a land grant of 1,000 acres for his service. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Knoxville, TN
Phone: (865) 525-6514
James Wilhoite House
(Private Residence) Also referred to as the Reed Corlette House, this 1877 Italianate-style residence was built by James Wilhoite, a successful farmer and tobacco factory owner known as one of the area's most successful merchants in the late 1800s. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: College Grove, TN
Phone:
Jerry Amish Wagon Tours
. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Ethridge, TN
Phone: 931-629-0764
John Randolph Spahr Home
With a unique interior log
structure, this historic
two-story home was owned by John
Randolph Spahr, Sr.
in the late 1800s. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Blountville, TN
Phone:
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