For over 30 years, people in Rhea County have put on a play every July using the trial transcript, aiming to correct the record. In their own words, the actors and director of “Destiny in Dayton ...

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

For over 30 years, people in Rhea County have put on a play every July using the trial transcript, aiming to correct the record.

Around 200 service members from around the country are providing medical care at no cost in Rhea and Bledose Counties.

It also characterized Dayton as an uneducated town of strident Christian fundamentalists, a narrative locals have spent decades trying to rewrite. For over 30 years, people in Rhea County have put ...

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to this say the site sparks conversation.

Locals in Dayton now mark that history with a festival and reenactment staged in the historic Rhea County Courthouse courtroom where the 1925 trial took place.