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

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.

A tenured teacher at an elementary school in Rhea County who was fired has now filed a lawsuit, claiming discrimination because of her disabilities.

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

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.

John Thomas Scopes ‒ often begins with Scopes himself, a teacher accused of violating the Butler Act by explaining evolution at Rhea County High School.