Something special is happening in Rhea County in July to mark the 100th anniversary of a very important event there, a trial ...

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to ...

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

John Scopes, a high school teacher, went on trial in the Rhea County Courthouse - accused of violating a Tennessee law that ...