The Chester Inn State Historic Site

In 1797, Dr. William Chester from Lancaster, Pennsylvania built the Chester Inn. It’s the oldest wooden building in the historic district of Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Southwest Virginia Museum

The Southwest Virginia Museum was entrusted to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1946 by C. Bascom Slemp, a member of the U.S Congress and private secretary to President Calvin Coolidge.

Rocky Mount State Historic Site

A step back to the 18th Century at the Capitol of the Southwest Territory with the Cobb Family as they share their everyday living with you along with the makings of apple cider and woodworking. We also tour the museum at Rocky Mount State Historic Park.

Fort Boonesborough

Daniel Boone founded Kentucky’s second settlement in April 1775, and one month later, the state’s first representative of government was held at Boonesborough. Boone had already been in the state years prior as he made his way through the Cumberland Gap on the Wilderness Road.

Portal 31 Lynch, Kentucky

Let’s ride into a former operating mine as we take a step back in time to hear about the everyday lives miners faced underground, immigrant miners looking for a better life, family, and recreation.

Sycamore Shoals State Park/Fort Watauga

Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park is located along the Watauga River in Elizabethton, Tennessee, on the land where many significant historical events happened during the late 18th century. As many settlers arrived at the settlement, its leaders declared themselves “the first free and independent community on the continent” in 1772

Clinchfield #2 Miners Commemoration

Four months before May 20, 1948, work was resumed in the 19-left section of the mine after a 22-year interval. The goal was to help straighten a pillar line and retrieve room pillars of the #1 and #2 rooms. Three parceled mined coal pillars, 150 feet wide, were driven through these rooms and left for protection when inbye room, and the entry pillars were mined in 1926.