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Rugby, Tennessee
The Newbury House is a restored 1880 inn in Historic Rugby that still takes overnight guests. The most chilling story tells of a man who…
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Baker Peters Jazz Club in West Knoxville occupies a two-story Greek Revival house built in 1840 by Dr. James Harvey Baker, a local…
Adams, Tennessee
The Bell Witch is Tennessee's most famous haunting, a legend from the early 1800s in which the family of the farmer John Bell of Adams was…
Nashville, Tennessee
Belmont Mansion on the Belmont University campus was built in the 1850s as the Italianate villa of Adelicia Acklen, one of the wealthiest…
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Bijou Theatre on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville is one of the city's oldest buildings, with roots in an early hotel that became a…
Shiloh, Tennessee
The Battle of Shiloh, fought April 6–7, 1862, left more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers killed, wounded or missing. Bloody Pond,…
Franklin, Tennessee
Carnton Plantation in Franklin was the home of the McGavock family and became a field hospital after the Battle of Franklin on November 30,…
Franklin, Tennessee
Visitors and staff at the Carter House describe the spirits of Confederate Captain Tod Carter, his sister Annie and even a phantom…
Castalian Springs, Tennessee
Cragfont is a stone Federal-style mansion near Castalian Springs, built from 1798 to 1802 for General James Winchester, a Revolutionary War…
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Elkmont began as a logging camp of the Little River Lumber Company and became a summer resort of private cabins and clubhouses for wealthy…
Memphis, Tennessee
Elmwood Cemetery, founded in 1852, is Memphis's oldest active cemetery, with some 80 acres and more than 75,000 burials, including many…
Guild, Tennessee
Hales Bar Dam, built on the Tennessee River in the early 1900s and replaced by Nickajack Dam, has a powerhouse on the National Register of…
Hermitage, Tennessee
The Hermitage is the home and plantation of President Andrew Jackson, and a museum that also tells the story of the more than 150 enslaved…
Nashville, Tennessee
The Hermitage Hotel has been a Nashville landmark since 1910, a Beaux-Arts hotel facing the state Capitol where governors and stars have…
Petros, Tennessee
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary near Petros opened in 1896 and held some of Tennessee's most notorious inmates until it closed in 2009,…
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Hunter Museum of American Art grew out of a Classical Revival mansion built in 1904 on the Chattanooga bluff above the Tennessee River…
Rugby, Tennessee
Historic Rugby is a Victorian utopian village on the Cumberland Plateau founded in 1880 by the English author Thomas Hughes, and Kingstone…
Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
Loretta Lynn's Ranch at Hurricane Mills centers on an antebellum plantation house that the country singer bought in the 1960s and lived in…
Franklin, Tennessee
The Lotz House was built in 1858 by Johann Lotz, a German immigrant woodworker, and stood in the middle of the Battle of Franklin on…
Memphis, Tennessee
The Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis, a grand 1928 vaudeville and movie palace, is best known for the ghost of a girl named Mary, said…
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Read House traces its history to an 1847 inn in downtown Chattanooga, and the present building opened in 1926. Its best-known story is…
Nashville, Tennessee
The Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church of Country Music, was built in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle by the riverboat captain Thomas…
Clarksville, Tennessee
The Smith-Trahern Mansion in Clarksville is an Italianate house built in the late 1850s above the Cumberland River, now owned by the city.…
Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee
The Thomas House Hotel, once the Cloyd Brothers Hotel, is one of three hotels left from Red Boiling Springs' early-20th-century spa boom…