The Rhea County Department of Tourism will be holding a “Gather and Graze” event on the courthouse lawn on Friday, Oct. 17.

One hundred years ago, the controversial court case State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes unfolded in Dayton, Tennessee. Locals in Dayton now mark that history with a festival and reenactment ...

DAYTON, Tennessee — Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to Rhea County high school class. It'd been pretty much ...

Judge John T. Raulston holds the decision in the Scopes Trial at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, July 17, 1925. John Scopes, a biology teacher, was on trial for violating a Tennessee ...

In July 1925, the historic Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, hosted what was dubbed the “trial of the century” against teacher John Scopes for violating a state law that prohibited teaching ...

I had wanted to take in a lot of the 100 th anniversary events regarding the Scopes Trial, which had been held at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton from July 10-21, 1925. But a nice family vacation ...

The 100 th Anniversary of the “World’s Greatest Trial” has now ended in the fast growing community of Dayton- Rhea County north of equally fast growing communities in Chattanooga-Hamilton County, ...