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Alcatraz East is a privately owned for-profit crime museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. [1] Opened in 2016, it was formerly operated as the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. [ 2 ] The museum gives a behind-the-scenes look at crime history in America.
Tennessee River Museum: Savannah: Hardin: West: Local history: Website: Tennessee State Museum: Nashville: Davidson: Middle: History: History of the state of Tennessee, includes Military Branch Museum, tours of the Tennessee State Capitol: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum: Chattanooga: Hamilton: East: Railroad: Heritage railroad and equipment ...
The Bowen–Campbell House Association as well as the Tennessee Historical Commission, restored the house in 1976. [3] In 1977, the structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Archeologists found the family cemetery on the property in 1995 and restored it in 1996. [3] It is open for tours as part of Historic Mansker's Station.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Now open for tours, private events, concerts, and moonshine distillery. Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex page on Tennessee Department of Corrections website (archived) Lindsay Ziliak, Brushy Mountain inmates transferred as prison shuts down after 113 years, Knoxville News Sentinel, June 8, 2009. Includes a ...
Major Cherokee towns were centered around a large townhouse or council house, the site of community meetings of hundreds of people. These were usually built on top of an existing platform mound in the center of the town. These earthworks had typically been built by ancestral peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian or earlier cultures.
Location of Hamilton County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hamilton County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
For the first time since 2020, the Tarrytown Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow will soon be open to the public for tours.. The free curated programs, limited to 24 people, begin Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. and ...
The Little Tennessee provides the immediate boundary between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee National Forest. The Calderwood Hydroelectric Development Area— located on the shores above the ancient Tallassee site— is accessible just off U.S. Route 129 approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the road's Foothills ...