Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation

Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation

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www.rheaheritage.com

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The Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation exists to celebrate the history, heritage and culture of R

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Heritage Days—Free Family Fun!
5:00 PM EDT, Jul 11, 2025
Dayton, TN
Something for Everyone!
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Scopes Trial Play: Destiny in Dayton
7:00 PM EDT, Jul 11, 2025
Dayton, TN
Centennial celebration of the 1925 Scopes Evolution Trial
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Heritage Days—Free Family Fun!
10:00 AM EDT, Jul 12, 2025
Dayton, TN
Something for Everyone!
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Scopes Trial Play: Destiny in Dayton
2:00 PM EDT, Jul 12, 2025
Dayton, TN
Centennial celebration of the 1925 Scopes Evolution Trial
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Scopes Trial Centennial Symposium
9:00 AM EDT, Jul 16, 2025
Dayton, TN
Second week of Scopes Centennial festival focuses on scholarly research
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May 1, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYAfter a “good though hardly remarkable first year,” John Scopes’s contract ends at RCHS, but he stays in town to help two students injur...
April 28, 1925 THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYOn this day in 1925, John T. Scopes gave an exam to his biology class that included no questions about the process of evolution, but did...
Scopes Trial Play cast get-together scheduledThe Scopes Trial Play will host a cast/recruitment party on Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. in the Rhea County Heritage & Scopes Trial Museum...
Rhea Heritage sponsors first Scopes Festival debateTwo Bryan College students debated the value of school choice April 17 in the same courtroom where William Jennings Bryan and Clarence D...

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