Jan 15, 2025
This massive White Oak, Quercus alba, is located atop the Harriman Cemetery Hill, just below the Walden Ridge. The town of Harriman was founded in 1891, but the 193-inch circumference of the oak testifies to its position long before the town’s recognition. The old...
Nov 30, 2023
The large white oak, Quercus alba, stands on the property once owned by the American Missionary Association (AMA) in Pleasant Hill, Cumberland County. The Academy was established in 1884 to provide broad liberal arts education for rural youth, while also giving...
Nov 30, 2023
In August 1956, Clinton High School was integrated under the US. Supreme Court order, Bown vs. Board of Education and 12 brave black students walked down from Foley Hill to attend classes in the all-white school. Suffering threats and harassment every day and under...
Feb 6, 2023
Standing as a witness to Hawkins County and East TN history, is the venerable White Oak, Quercus alba, of Browns Corner, Rogersville, TN. This oak is situated east of downtown Rogersville in a corner roadside park between Old Hwy 11 W and Hwy 70 E. A four-sided...
Feb 6, 2022
The Gatlinburg “Big Tree”, as it is known locally, was estimated to be 225 years old. Gatlinburg’s first settlers, the Ogle family, moved from South Carolina to Sevier County, Tennessee and eventually to the Gatlinburg location in 1803. This huge poplar predates their...
Nov 27, 2018
This large white oak sits on top of the famous “Indian Mound” on the UT Knoxville Agricultural Campus where thousands of agriculture majors have witnessed its location since around 1904. Following the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862 that established the Land Grant...
Jan 17, 2018
Wright Forest Natural Area is the only known example of an extensive white pine and hemlock pre-settlement forest, which originally covered much of the floor of Shady Valley in Johnson County. The forest is part of a working “century farm,” having been in the same...
Jan 17, 2018
Taxodium distichum In the mid-1700s Reuben Allen built a log house in the mountains of Cocke County that would eventually grow into first the Allen Inn and later the Wolf Creek Inn. The inn became the terminal of the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad in...
Jan 17, 2018
The small Dayton courthouse became one of the most famous scenes in history with the 1925 Scopes Trial. The trial pitted the three-time presidential candidate and famous creationist William Jennings Bryan against well-known criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow and the...
