{"id":454,"date":"2022-01-10T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/?p=454"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:43:44","slug":"bledsoe-county-and-regional-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/bledsoe-county-and-regional-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Bledsoe County and Regional Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bledsoe County History Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Located in the Ross House<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">108 Frazier St, Pikeville, TN 37367<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Ross House Medical Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">The site is most widely known as the place where Dr. James A. Ross operated his medical practice in a small building behind the house. Both the circa 1872 house and the office building are being restored.&nbsp; In the 1940&#8217;s, the house served as the county&#8217;s second hospital. The committee is searching for the names of the Bledsoe &#8220;Boomers&#8221; who were born there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">108 Frazier St, Pikeville, TN 37367<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Betty Dunn Nature Center<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Natural history museum located in Van Buren County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">10821 Park Rd, Pikeville, TN 37367<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Betty-Dunn-Nature-Center-103275198900737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Dunlap coke ovens are the remnants of a coke production facility near Dunlap. National Register of Historic Places site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">Mountain View Cir, Dunlap, TN 37327<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=local&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiUmtDR66f1AhWEQTABHUzDDd8QmhN6BAgREAI&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDunlap_coke_ovens&amp;usg=AOvVaw1rvPbP1cOi_8Q-rIvGMvT_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Burritt College Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Located in Spencer, Van Buren County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Burritt-College-118389171562195\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Pioneer Hall Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Pioneer Hall is a historic school building in Pleasant Hill in Cumberland County. It was built for the American Missionary Association from 1887 to 1889 and designed by Reverend Benjamin Dodge, a Congregationalist from Maine.&nbsp; National Register of Historic Places site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pioneer_Hall_(Pleasant_Hill,_Tennessee)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Rhea County Court House Landmark and Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">Historical exhibits primarily related to the Scopes trial in 1925.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">1475 Market St, Dayton, TN 37321<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Cumberland Homesteads and CCC Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">96 Highway 68, Crossville, TN 38555<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CumberlandHomesteads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>White County Heritage Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">144 S Main St, Sparta, TN 38583<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WhiteCountyMuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Palmer Miner&#8217;s Museum<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"LrzXr\">2115 Main St, Palmer, TN 37365<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bledsoe County History Museum Located in the Ross House 108 Frazier St, Pikeville, TN 37367 Ross House Medical Museum The site is most widely known as the place where Dr. James A. Ross operated his medical practice in a small building behind the house. 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