Scopes Trial Courthouse, Dayton, Tennessee

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Common sense isn't.

Scopes Trial Courthouse, Dayton, Tennessee

2006 October

2B 23
THE SCOPES TRIAL

Here, from July 10 to 21, 1925,
John Thomas Scopes, a county
high school teacher, was tried
for teaching that man descended
from a lower order of animals,
in violation of a lately passed
state law. William Jennings Bryan
assisted the prosecution: Clarence
Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays
and Dudley Field Malone the
defense. Scopes was convicted.

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION

IN HONOR OF THE GALLANT MEN AND WOMEN
OF RHEA COUNTY
WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE STRUGGLE
TO KEEP AMERICA MIGHTY AND FREE

WORLD WAR II

WORLD WAR I
ARMY

BRADY, FRED W.
BRUCE, TOM
GARRISON, JOHN
GILL, ALVIN
GUTH, FRED C.
HUDSON, LEROY
MILLER, CLINT B.
SHARP, CHARLES R.

Any Person
ENTERING This BUILDING
Is Subject To SEARCH!

SCOPES TRIAL TRAIL

RHEA COUNTY
COURTHOUSE & MUSEUM

This Romanesque Revival-Italian Villa Style courthouse was
built in 1891, designated a National Historic Landmark in
1976, and restored at the completion of the Scopes Trial
Museum In 1978.

TRUTH
AND
ELOQUENCE
1891

BRYAN
COLLEGE
1930

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
1860 - 1925

PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
SECRETARY OF STATE
CONGRESSMAN

CHRISTIAN STATESMAN
AUTHOR AND ORATOR

Scopes Trial
MUSEUM

KOREAN
ARMY

SHIPLEY, CHARLES
BROOKS, RAYMOND

VIETNAM
ARMY

HAYES, JESSE B.
PERRY, RANDALL E.
SMITH, DAVID
JOHNSON, BILL J.
PELFREY, JOHNNY ?
MAYNOR, ROY
REED, JACKIE ?

On Saturday, there was a small farmers' market along one side of the courthouse. Unfortunately, the museum was closed for the weekend, but we looked around outside, and had a quick look inside the courthouse.

RHEA
COUNTY
COURT HOUSE
1891

We got a quick look into the main hallway of the courthouse.

Thanks to H for taking several of these photos, as we walked around the park-like courthouse setting.

Quote of the moment
Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?
~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. VII, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~

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