This is the place where, around the table in Robinson's Drugstore, the Scopes trial originated." Nestled in the Tennessee River valley between Chattanooga and Knoxville, Dayton was founded after ...

Eloise Reed was 14 years old when the "monkey trial" came to her hometown of Dayton, Tennessee ... where it started,' also is President of the School Board." Reporter H. L. Mencken dubbed Dayton ...