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Antebellum Antebellum Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Antebellum period of 1840 to 1860 was a time of prosperity and cultural development for many Tennesseans. (Antebellum is from the Latin words ante, before, and bellum, war. It is used to signify the period before the Civil War.) Cities and towns became trade centers, as railroads and steamboats drew people closer together. The increasing prosperity manifested itself in several ways. Artists, whether trained or self-taught, found a ready market for their skills as the rising middle...	Tennessee State Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Bubble Cave (CLOSED) Bubble Cave (CLOSED) Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville August 27, 2010 - Ongoing The Museum is getting an upgrade! The 1898 Customs House Building is being renovated in order to provide an improved environment for both visitors and artifacts. While these improvements are being made the following areas will be inaccessible: Heritage Hall, Memory Lane, and the DeWald, Peg Harvill, and Explorers’ Galleries. The renovations on the 1898 building will begin on...	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv	08/27/10 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
Challenges and Champions Sports Gallery Challenges and Champions Sports Gallery Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville March 4, 2010 - Ongoing Challenges and Champions highlights amazing athletes who have come from Montgomery County. See Jeff Purvis‘ racecar, Wilma Rudoph’s relay baton, Billy Copeland’s street luge, and other exciting mementos of sporting history. Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times and in all areas of the Museum. Free parking for Museum visitors is available behind the Museum at the top of the hill off South Second...	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville	03/04/10 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
Civil War Map Civil War Map Presented by Sumner County Museum at Sumner County Museum August 27, 2010 - Ongoing James Willette, a cartographer of the U.S. Army of the Cumberland drew the large map on the wall in 1864. It shows the small city of Gallatin and the surrounding area. It is drawn on waxed linen and is a topographical map as well as showing the elevation in feet from sea level. Look for the circles which indicate the crest of hills. Houses, taverns, roads, churches, crops, cotton fields and timber areas are all shown on this detailed map. But the most interesting thing about the map is: all...	Sumner County Museum	08/27/10 - Ongoing	Sumner County Museum, Gallatin
Explorer's Gallery (CLOSED) Explorer's Gallery (CLOSED) Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville March 4, 2010 - Ongoing The Museum is getting an upgrade! The 1898 Customs House Building is being renovated in order to provide an improved environment for both visitors and artifacts. While these improvements are being made the following areas will be inaccessible: Heritage Hall, Memory Lane, and the DeWald, Peg Harvill, and Explorers’ Galleries. The renovations on the 1898 building will begin on...	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville	03/04/10 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
Fontanel Mansion Tours Fontanel Mansion Tours Presented by The Fontanel Mansion & Farm at The Fontanel Mansion & Farm June 7, 2010 - Ongoing Fontanel Mansion, a 27,000 square foot log home formerly owned by Country Music Hall of Fame® member and two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year Barbara Mandrell. Located less than 15 minutes from downtown Nashville, Fontanel Mansion boasts three stories, more than 18 rooms, 13 bathrooms, 5 fireplaces, 2 kitchens, an indoor pool, and even an indoor shooting range on 136 acres. An exclusive spot for the stars, the home and...	The Fontanel Mansion & Farm	06/07/10 - Ongoing	The Fontanel Mansion & Farm, Whites Creek
George Dickel Distillery Tour George Dickel Distillery Tour Presented by George Dickel Distillery at George Dickel Distillery October 1, 2009 - Ongoing You won’t find Cascade Hollow on most maps. Nestled on the Highland Rim of the Cumberland Plateau, you will find us about halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga. The ancient limestone shelf of this plateau provides water than runs fresh and clear from the nearby Cascade Springs, and it made the perfect spot to build a distillery. Come tour the distillery and discover George Dickel’s award winning whisky and its time honored...	George Dickel Distillery	10/01/09 - Ongoing	George Dickel Distillery , Tullahoma
Ghost and Haunt Tours Ghost and Haunt Tours Presented by Ghost and Haunt Tours at Sheraton Nashville Downtown April 3, 2008 - Ongoing Come join us on the original walking ghost tour of downtown Nashville. Take the original full season ghost tour and visit the most haunted and paranormal filled locations in all of Nashville. Nothing hokey - NO costumes, lanterns or people jumping out to scare you. Find out why security guards at the State Capitol keep quitting on the night shift. Hear what happens at Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry, when the lights go out, and just what keeps coming back....	Ghost and Haunt Tours	04/03/08 - Ongoing	Sheraton Nashville Downtown, Nashville
Haunted Tavern Tours Haunted Tavern Tours Presented by Nashville Ghost Tours April 2, 2008 - Ongoing From the people who brought you the critically acclaimed original Nashville Ghost Tours comes their newest creation, Haunted Tavern Tours. This unique haunted tavern tour will get you up close with the "spirits" of Nashville. In the tradition of English Pub Crawls, your tour guide will lead to a few of Nashville's most haunted...	Nashville Ghost Tours	04/02/08 - Ongoing
Indian Artifacts Indian Artifacts Presented by Sumner County Museum at Sumner County Museum August 27, 2010 - Ongoing A majority of these Indian artifacts have been found in Sumner County. The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Shawnee and the Iroquois tribes used this area in Middle Tennessee as a neutral hunting ground. The Shawnee were allow to hunt in here "only until the dogwoods begin to bloom." These Indian tribes were mobile and they did not live in tepees as the Indians of the west....	Sumner County Museum	08/27/10 - Ongoing	Sumner County Museum, Gallatin
Jack Daniel's Distillery Tour Jack Daniel's Distillery Tour Presented by Jack Daniel Distillery at Jack Daniel's Distillery October 1, 2009 - Ongoing Whenever you're in the vicinity of Lynchburg, just over an hour's drive from Nashville, drop by for a firsthand look at our Distillery. One of our guides will accompany you on a tour and tell you the complete story of our whiskey. And you’ll probably hear an interesting story or two about Mr. Jack as well. Our tour is mostly out-of-doors and involves quite a lot of walking, so be sure to wear comfortable shoes. Tours...	Jack Daniel Distillery	10/01/09 - Ongoing	Jack Daniel's Distillery, Lynchburg
KidZone KidZone Presented by Nashville Public Library at Nashville Public Library - Madison Branch January 21, 2010 - Ongoing Cool crafts, great games, special guests and more, all designed just for elementary school-age kids! There’s something different every week, so don’t miss it!	Nashville Public Library	01/21/10 - Ongoing	Nashville Public Library - Madison Branch, Madison
Lucy Dunwody Boehm Porcelain Collection Lucy Dunwody Boehm Porcelain Collection Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville September 1, 2009 - Ongoing Come see one of the Southeast's largest collections of these fantastic porcelains now installed in a new permanent gallery - the DeWald Gallery of Heritage Hall. Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times and in all areas of the Museum. Free parking for Museum visitors is available behind the Museum at the top of the hill off South Second Street. Sundays are free for everyone!	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv	09/01/09 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
Memory Lane (CLOSED) Memory Lane (CLOSED) Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville March 4, 2010 - Ongoing The Museum is getting an upgrade! The 1898 Customs House Building is being renovated in order to provide an improved environment for both visitors and artifacts. While these improvements are being made the following areas will be inaccessible: Heritage Hall, Memory Lane, and the DeWald, Peg Harvill, and Explorers’ Galleries. The renovations on the 1898 building will begin on...	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville	03/04/10 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
Permanent Exhibit: Hall of Fame Rotunda Permanent Exhibit: Hall of Fame Rotunda Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Everyone recognized here is an equal. The members' plaques are placed randomly around the room - except for the newest members of the Hall of Fame, whose plaques can be found alongside Thomas Hart Benton's painting The Sources of Country Music. The room is round to ensure that every Hall of Fame...	Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville
Permanent Exhibit: Sing Me Back Home - A Journey Through Country Music Permanent Exhibit: Sing Me Back Home - A Journey Through Country Music Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Sing Me Back Home is the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s permanent exhibit, an exciting, multi-layered journey through the life of country music. Through artifacts, photographs, original recordings, archival video, newly produced films, touchscreen interactive media and beautifully rendered text panels, Sing Me Back Home immerses visitors in the history and sounds of country music, its meanings and the lives and voices of many of its honored...	Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville
Post Master's Office (CLOSED) Post Master's Office (CLOSED) Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville March 4, 2010 - Ongoing The Museum is getting an upgrade! The 1898 Customs House Building is being renovated in order to provide an improved environment for both visitors and artifacts. While these improvements are being made the following areas will be inaccessible: Heritage Hall, Memory Lane, and the DeWald, Peg Harvill, and Explorers’ Galleries. The renovations on the 1898 building will begin on...	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville	03/04/10 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
Stories from the Hermitage Slave Community Stories from the Hermitage Slave Community Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Hermitage story is not just about Andrew Jackson and his family. In fact, the Jackson family story cannot be told without the stories of the 150 enslaved Africans who lived and worked at The Hermitage. Whether house slave, skilled craftsmen, or field hand, each and every one made an important contribution to The Hermitage. From 1804 to 1865, slaves were born, purchased, lived, sold, and died on The Hermitage, but little is known about their story. Only recently through scant...	The Hermitage	07/01/07 - Ongoing	The Hermitage, Nashville
Student Art Gallery (CLOSED) Student Art Gallery (CLOSED) Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville August 27, 2010 - Ongoing The Museum is getting an upgrade! The 1898 Customs House Building is being renovated in order to provide an improved environment for both visitors and artifacts. While these improvements are being made the following areas will be inaccessible: Heritage Hall, Memory Lane, and the DeWald, Peg Harvill, and Explorers’ Galleries. The renovations on the 1898 building will begin on...	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville	08/27/10 - Ongoing	Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville, Clarksville
The Age of Jackson The Age of Jackson Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Between 1815 and 1850, Tennessee embodied the spirit of American expansion and politics, with President Andrew Jackson being the central character in the state's development. Displays on Jackson, David Crockett, Sam Houston, and President James K. Polk are included in this section of the museum.	Tennessee State Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
The Civil War and Reconstruction The Civil War and Reconstruction Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing By 1860 the issue of slavery had become a tinderbox; a moral, social and economic issue which slowly divided the northern and southern states. Tennessee found itself divided when the General Assembly voted to secede. Many people in East Tennessee supported the Union and even fought in the Union Army. Tennessee was the primary battlefield of the Civil War in the west, with more than 400 battles and skirmishes within its borders. Each of the major battles in Tennessee is highlighted with...	Tennessee State Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
The First Tennesseans The First Tennesseans Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Prehistoric Indian cultures existed in Tennessee through four evolving periods, beginning about 15,000 years ago, peaking between 800 and 1650 A.D. with the Mississippian people, and ending with the ascendancy of such modern tribes as the Cherokee and Chickasaw. Artifacts from the Paleolithic, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods are on exhibit. The museum even has a display of bones from a mastodon that roamed Tennessee 10,000 years ago.	Tennessee State Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
The Frontier The Frontier Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Spanish conquistadors were the first Europeans to reach Tennessee, followed by the French and English explorers, and then by the first white settlers. Armor and weapons from the Europeans and Daniel Boone's musket highlight this era. A frontier cabin, 200-year-old dugout canoe, a grist mill, and a Conestoga wagon all give testimony to life on the frontier. Handmade furniture, a woodworking shop, and a working printing press show the skill of early Tennessee craftspeople.	Tennessee State Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
The Hermitage - Andrew Jackson The Hermitage - Andrew Jackson Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage February 26, 2009 - Ongoing The Hermitage's new orientation film Andrew Jackson, narrated by Martin Sheen, is now playing on new state-of-the-art equipment in the Andrew Jackson Visitor Center theater. The film is one of the final components to a multi-year plan to enhance the guest experience throughout the site. In addition to the film, other enhancements include audio tours, informational signage, touch screen digital signage, on-site brochure, and an interactive website (coming soon!) This project was funded...	The Hermitage	02/26/09 - Ongoing	The Hermitage, Nashville
The New South The New South Presented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Between 1870 and the 1920's, Tennessee experienced great changes fueled by the post-Civil War industrial revolution. Exhibits on women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the Tennessee Centennial Exposition illustrate the state's involvement in social issues of the times.	Tennessee State Museum	07/01/07 - Ongoing	Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Then and Now Photos of Gallatin, Westmoreland, Portland and Hendersonville Then and Now Photos of Gallatin, Westmoreland, Portland and Hendersonville Presented by Sumner County Museum at Sumner County Museum August 27, 2010 - Ongoing This is a wonderful photographic display, featuring "then and now" photos of interest in Gallatin, Westmoreland, Portland and Hendersonville. These are made by Allen Haynes. There are three other photographers displayed here, E.M. Stark, Tippy Crutcher and J.E. Flanigan. The display case shows some of the earlier cameras used by notable photographers.	Sumner County Museum	08/27/10 - Ongoing	Sumner County Museum, Gallatin
Tulip Grove Mansion Guided Tour Tulip Grove Mansion Guided Tour Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage July 1, 2009 - Ongoing Originally the home of Jackson's protege, Andrew Jackson Donelson, Tulip Grove's private ownership was longer and more varied than the Hermitage mansion. Join a Hermitage interpreter for a tour of one of Tennessee's finest Greek Revival mansions and learn about cotton, cattle, and the Civil War.	The Hermitage	07/01/09 - Ongoing	The Hermitage, Nashville