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The Museum of Appalachia, located in Norris, Tennessee, 20 miles (32 km) north of Knoxville, is a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and early 20th-century period of the Southern Appalachian region of the United States.
Museum of Appalachia: Norris: Anderson: East: Living: Early-20th-century mountain life in the Southern Appalachians. Museum of Biblical History: Collierville: Shelby: West: Archaeological: website, archaeological artifacts and exact full-sized replicas of major archaeological discoveries from Bible lands Museum of East Tennessee History ...
Appalachia (locally / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə /, also /-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə / [4]) is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
John Rice Irwin (December 11, 1930 – January 16, 2022) was an American cultural historian, and founder of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.. His interest in history began at an early age, and was inspired by his grandparents to start a museum.
Exhibits at the Gray Fossil Site & Museum, including replicas of fossil tapirs, alligator, and rhinoceros. The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene assemblage of fossils dating between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old, located near the community of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee.
The "Middle Towns" were centered on Nequassee and Tassetchee amidst the Great Balsam Mountains and eastern Unicoi Mountains in western North Carolina. The Overhill Cherokee lived in settlements located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Tennessee Valley in what is now Tennessee. The Overhill capital, or "mother town," shifted between ...
The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center is a private non-profit museum located in Townsend, Tennessee, United States, near the city's entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its mission is to preserve the heritage and culture of the inhabitants of the Great Smoky Mountains , including both the region's Native American inhabitants ...