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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.
General Wilder’s Bed & Breakfast
Step back in time. Southern hospitality abounds at this historic home of a Civil War General. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Roan Mountain, TN
Phone: 423-772-3102
George L. Carter Railroad Museum
Learn about Johnson City's railroad history through models and artifacts. ...more
Region: Northeast
City: Johnson City, TN
Phone: 615-929-3733
Gibson Girls Southern Goodies
This tearoom and bakery is located in a lovely authentic Civil War-era mansion dating back to 1848. Legend has it that Confederate General P. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Kingston, TN
Phone: 865-376-0150
Giles County Historic Site Tour
Driving tour of historic homes and sites over the entire county. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Pulaski, TN
Phone: 931-424-4044
Gilleland-O'Dell House
Listed on the National Register, the Gilleland-Odell house, a private home, is the only surviving structure of the old town of New Port, which was established as the seat of Cocke County in 1799. The town remained the county seat until about 1884 when all county offices were moved to the present town of Newport on the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston railroad lines. ...more
Region: East Tennessee
City: Old Town, TN
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Glen Oaks
(Private Residence) Harvey LaFollette, one of two brothers who founded the city of LaFollette, built this large Victorian home in 1895. The grand house, designed by the famous architect George Barber, and is the largest house in LaFollette. ...more
Region: East Tennessee
City: LaFollette, TN
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Glenmore Mansion
This 1869 historic landmark is a near-perfect example of Second Empire Victorian architecture. Built on land where the Civil War Battle of Mossy Creek was fought, the property still maintains the family/Civil War cemetery. ...more
Region: Knoxville & Middle East
City: Jefferson City, TN
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Governor A.H. Roberts Law Office
Law office of Governor A. H. ...more
Region: Upper Cumberland
City: Livingston, TN
Phone: 931-823-6421
Governor's Executive Residence
A private residence purchased by the state in 1948 to serve as the official residence of the governor. Call for tour schedule and reservations. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
Phone: 615-532-0494
Grandpa's House
We are the second, third and fourth generation living and working on the Ritter Farm, about two miles from Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee. We are hand crafters: carvers, wood workers, quilters, artists, seamstresses, blacksmiths, wagonmakers, potters, photographers, musicians and storytellers. ...more
Region: Upper Cumberland
City: Red Boiling Springs, TN
Phone: (615) 699-0166
Grassmere Historic Home and Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Homes, the Grassmere Historic Home, built in 1810, is the centerpiece of the Grassmere Historic Farm and is open seasonally for guided tours. Interpreters will take you on a walking tour through the home, telling you the history of the property, stories from the five generations who lived there, and how the Zoo came to be located on the land. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Nashville, TN
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Gravel Hill Community
Gravel Hill is one of the Cumberland Valley’s oldest rural African American communities, established around the Gravel hill Baptist Church on the border between Wilson and Trousdale counties in 1869. The church cemetery contains the burials of several federal military veterans, from the Civil War to World War II. ...more
Region: Middle Tennessee
City: , TN
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Gray-Lemke House
Built in 1856, this Greek Revival-style house was home to the owner of Binghams community store. ...more
Region: Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City: Leiper's Fork, TN
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. World renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and the quality of its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, this is America's most visited national park. ...more
Region: Smoky Mountains
City: Gatlinburg, TN
Phone: 865-436-1200
Green Frog Village
A collection of restored log and other structures creating a rural antique Southern village. A 1915 cotton gin is being preserved as a museum. ...more
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