Dayton, Tennessee

The Rhea County courthouse is home of the famous "Monkey Trial".

City and county seat in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States.

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John T. Scopes

John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools.

Butler Act

1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin.

The law was challenged later that year in a famous trial in Dayton, Tennessee called the Scopes Trial which included a raucous confrontation between prosecution attorney and fundamentalist religious leader, William Jennings Bryan, and noted defense attorney and religious agnostic, Clarence Darrow.

Scopes Trial

American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

Clarence Darrow in 1925, during the trial

Darrow (left) and Bryan (right) during the trial

The Rhea County Courthouse is a National Historic Landmark.

Cartoonist Rollin Kirby depicts fundamentalist education in Tennessee taken to an extreme

Spencer Tracy (left) as Darrow surrogate Henry Drummond, and Fredric March (right) as Bryan surrogate Matthew Harrison Brady in the trailer for the film Inherit the Wind; Harry Morgan (in the background) plays the judge.

The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held.

Rhea County, Tennessee

County located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

The cooling towers of Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station, with the Tennessee River in the foreground

Its county seat is Dayton.

Clarence Darrow

American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.

Henry Drummond (left), a fictionalized version of Clarence Darrow, as portrayed by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind.

A statue of Darrow stands outside the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, site of the 1925 Scopes Trial. The statue was erected on July 14, 2017, and stands just a few feet away from a statue of Darrow's Scopes Trial opponent, William Jennings Bryan, erected in 2005.

Jake Gaither

American football coach and college athletics administrator.

Coach Jake Gaither (standing, middle, white shirt with whistle) in the locker room with his Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) football team: Tallahassee, Florida, 1953

Gaither was born in 1903 in Dayton, Tennessee.

Tennessee

State in the Southeastern region of the United States.

Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's [[:File:Draught of the Cherokee Country.jpg|Draught of the Cherokee Country]]

Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee

Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796)

The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville

The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864

Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War

Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933

Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project

The Ocoee River was home to the 1996 Summer Olympics whitewater slalom events, the only Olympic sporting event ever held in the state.

Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit

Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau

Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes

Cedar glades are an extremely rare ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface

Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income.

Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female)

A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America

Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system

Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The resort city of Gatlinburg borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most visited national park in the United States.

The Grand Ole Opry, which was recorded in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium from 1943 to 1974, is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history.

Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation

Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities.

Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, is the busiest cargo airport in the world

Al Gore served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1985-1993) and as Vice President of the United States (1993-2001)

Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator"

In 1925, John T. Scopes, a high school teacher in Dayton, was tried and convicted for teaching evolution in violation of the state's recently passed Butler Act.