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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.
W.C. Handy House Museum
William Christopher Handy known as the “Father of the Blues” was born in 1873 in Florence, Alabama in a log cabin built by his grandfather. Growing up, he received lessons on the cornet in the local barber shop. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-527-3427
Walking Tours of the Historic Homes of Fayetteville
Maps and home descriptions are available at the Chamber of Commerce. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Fayetteville, TN
Phone: 931-433-1234
Waverly Train Explosion Memorial Museum
On-site memorial to 1978 train derailment disaster, footage used for training to prevent future hazardous material disaster. Pictures, video, newspaper articles and comments from those on the scene. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Waverly, TN
Phone: 931-296-2101
Webb Brothers Float Service & Store
Family business, oldest rafting company on Hiwassee. All ages for rafting. ...more
Region: Chattanooga & Southeast
City: Reliance, TN
Phone: 423-338-2373
Wessyngton Plantation
One of the great tobacco plantations of the South, Wessyngton was the estate of the Washington family, one of the state’s largest slave owners. In 1860 the family owned 13,000 acres and their 274 slaves raised 250,000 pounds of tobacco. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: Cedar Hill vicinity, TN
Phone: 615-384-3800
West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center
An Authentic Southern Experience!
Just off I-40, Exit 56, (behind McDonald's) in Brownsville, Tennessee, is the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center. Opened in 1999, the center offers visitors a taste of what West Tennessee has to offer — a staging area for your West Tennessee adventure. ...more
Region: Southwest
City: Brownsville, TN
Phone: 731-779-9000
Whisperwood Chapel
Architectural tour of site of Log Home Guide Magazine. Weddings may be arranged in their historic log chapel. ...more
Region: Smoky Mountains
City: Cosby, TN
Phone: 423-487-4000
White House Inn Library & Museum
Replica of the original White House Inn, a stopover between Nashville and Louisville in horse and buggy days. Museum has antiques and artifacts of White House. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: White House, TN
Phone: 615-672-0239
White Lightning Trail
The White Lightning Trail is waiting for you: a picturesque drive through the fertile valleys and rustic charm of the Tennessee hills. After leaving the city limits, you’ll pass through the Great Smoky Mountains into historic country music — Maynardville — home to country music greats like Chet Atkins and Roy Acuff. ...more
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City: , TN
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White Lily Flour Mill
This biscuit-colored building just across the tracks once housed White Lily Flours. Known to chefs as the best of American flours, the brand was one of the city's most famous products for more than a century, beginning with its original development in the 1880s. ...more
Region: East Tennessee
City: Knoxville, TN
Phone: 865-546-5511
White Plains Plantation
Drive past this beautiful 1848 Antebellum home, part of the
historic White Plains Plantation, first established
in 1809 and a stop-over along the famous Walton Road. One of the early plantation’s most famous guests was Rachel Jackson, First Lady of President Andrew Jackson. ...more
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City: Algood, TN
Phone: 931-537-6662
Wilkinson-Keele House/Nicoll & Nicoll Law Office
Private Property. Featured on HGTV's "Generation Renovation," this
1888 home is a beautiful example of the Queen Anne style of the Victorian era, and one of only two original houses left in Manchester's downtown area. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Manchester, TN
Phone: 931-723-7885
Wilson County Museum
Fite/Fess Enden House, built in the Federal style, now holds artifacts from Wilson County's 200-year history. Free admission. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Lebanon, TN
Phone: 615-444-9127
Winchester, Dechard and Estell Springs
At Estell Springs (Allisonia during the war) there is a railroad bridge which was the site of the crossing of some of the Army of Tennessee. Also located there is a historical marker for the Camp Harris site, a Confederate training camp named after Tennessee’s wartime governor, Isham G. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: , TN
Phone: 800-799-6131
Woodburn Plantation
(Private Residence) This historic property is located on both sides of Hwy 64. The large, 1850 Antebellum home retains the Neo-Classic facade typical of the Greek Revival influence of that period. ...more
Region: Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City: Somerville, TN
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