The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) recently announced the latest recipients of Tennessee Historic Development Grants, and Rhea County was among those recipients.

The production blacked out the windows in the main courtroom of the Rhea County Courthouse ... of Dayton, as part of its Scopes Festival, reenacts the courtroom proceedings that cemented the town ...

The Scopes Trial was held in the courthouse and on the grounds under ... in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tn., where it was held. Rhea County was created on Dec. 7 ...

It's springtime in Dayton, Tennessee, population around 6,000 ... the town of Dayton sponsor a re-enactment of the Scopes trial in the courthouse where the real event took place.

Approved by the Tennessee General Assembly in April 2021, the program will provide $6.1 million to projects focused on ...

In accordance with our practice of picking out topics and the names of individuals that appear in the trial transcript or ...

Many Americans have long understood the 1925 prosecution of John Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee ... in America as it was in that ...

In a way, Monday’s ceremony to reopen the Scopes trial museum in Dayton, Tennessee, was a reenactment of what happened on that courthouse lawn one wet, hot July 93 years ago. The trial was based on ...

The state’s investment is expected to leverage more than $13 million in private investment, according to a Tuesday press ...

May 25: In Dayton, a grand jury indicts ... Darrow and the ACLU challenge the Butler Law before the Tennessee Supreme Court. The court overturns John Scopes' conviction on a technicality ...

Christmas at the Courthouse” gets underway today, Saturday, Dec. 7, with a day filled with Christmas festivities centered around the historic Rhea County Courthouse in downtown Dayton.