Largest living oak estimated to be over 400 hundred years old.  In 2013, a conservation group bought seventeen adjacent acres to protect the tree from encroaching developement which could damage its extensive root system.

Site of Civil War encampment now cleared for development. Located five miles north of Defeated, Tennessee.

Converted to resemble the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi for the filming of “The Help”, a movie based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel, which details the relationship between African Americans and their white employers in 1960’s Mississippi.

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Where 14 year old Emmett Till was accused of flirting with a white shopkeeper in 1955. His abduction, torture, and murder by two white men, who were never convicted, sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Hank Williams lived in this home for a few years during his childhood. It is believed that during this time, he was taught to play guitar by an African American blues musician named Rufus "Teetot" Payne.

Site of the largest coal ash spill in United States history.
In 2008, 1 billion pounds of coal slurry flooded surrounding waterways and lands.

Recreated Court House in New Echota, capitol of the Cherokee nation and from where began the forced march of

Former Conway Twitty Mansion in Hendersonville, TN. Currently owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network and site of their annual Christmas television special.

Organ and chandelier (c.1928) rescued from the Loew’s Metropolitan Theater in Brooklyn, New York.

Cottage shared by Helen Keller and her teacher and lifelong companion Annie Sullivan.

Site of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 in which the ban on teaching evolution in the public school system was challenged.

Andrew Jackson’s dining room, painted in a highly reflective turquoise for maximum illumination, was the site of frequent entertaining. Over the course of his lifetime, Jackson’s cotton plantation grew as did the number of enslaved men and women necessary to support it, reaching 150 by the time of his death.

Located above the United Record Pressing plant in Nashville, this apartment was kept to host black performers and music executives who often had difficulty finding accommodations because of Jim Crow laws in the South.