Rhea County Courthouse (Dayton, Tennessee)

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1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
rheacountytn.gov/content/courts

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
The site of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, and a $1-million project which restored the second-floor courtroom to the way it looked during the Scopes trial in 1925. A museum of the trial events is located in its basement contains such memorabilia as the microphone used to broadcast the trial, trial records, photographs, and an audiovisual history of the trial. Every July local people re-enact key moments of the trial in the courtroom.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_County_Courthouse
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Coordinates:   35°29'42"N   85°0'46"W
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