Following the events of September 11, 2001, East Tennesseans contributed more than $940,000 to purchase and equip a 95-foot tower ladder truck for Harlem-based Ladder Company 14, helping the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) replenish the largest vehicles in the city's firefighting fleet. The so-called “Freedom Engine,” built by Seagrave...
Past Exhibits
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East Tennessee Remembers 9/11September 4, 2018 - 9:00am to September 11, 2018 - 5:00pm -
A Travelling Exhibition from the Museum of the American Military Experience--Now Extended Through August 26!January 20, 2018 - 9:00am to August 26, 2018 - 5:00pmBetween 2006 and 2009, an international team of historians, archaeologists, and geographers traveled to France to rediscover and document where Fentress County-native Sergeant Alvin C. York made his heroic stand. In the Footsteps of Sergeant York, a traveling exhibition from the Museum of the American Military Experience, showcases...
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From Erzgebirge, Germany, to Wartburg, TennesseeNovember 20, 2017 - 9:00am to January 7, 2018 - 4:00pmA Family's Christmas TraditionCharles Gottlieb Ficke/Fickey and wife Ernestine Augusta Auerswald, through whom the crèche (above) and Christmas carousel (right) descended, immigrated to the United States from the Saxony region of Germany in 1883. Accompanying them were their sons Ernest, 15, and Theodore, 10.
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Quilts from the East Tennessee Historical Society's Permanent CollectionAugust 7, 2017 - 9:00am to January 2, 2018 - 4:00pmEast Tennessee families treasure quilts made by their ancestors. Besides warming and decorating the bed, quilts also serve as reminders of important events—births, weddings, service to our country, the death of loved ones. Often, these memories are preserved in notes attached to the quilts or through stories handed down to younger...
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East Tennessee's Marble IndustryNovember 19, 2016 - 10:00am to May 14, 2017 - 5:00pmEast Tennessee marble is prized the world over. Come explore the industry that launched the rock's fame and crowned Knoxville as the Marble City!The marble industry was once an important sector of East Tennessee’s economy. By the mid-1850s, East Tennessee marble from Knox County had been chosen for the interiors of the Tennessee...
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@ East Tennessee History CenterNovember 19, 2016 - 10:00am to January 16, 2017 - 4:00pmA special exhibit at the Museum of East Tennessee History through January 16 will remember the legendary life and legacy of Waymon Earl Terrell (1950-2015). Earl was well known to the Powell community, where he was regularly seen riding his bicycle and pulling a cart along the busy thoroughfares of Clinton Highway and Emory Road, his dogs often...
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Knoxville's Contributions to American Popular MusicApril 16, 2016 - 10:00am to October 30, 2016 - 5:00pmIn 1929 and again in 1930, Brunswick Records' Vocalion label set up a temporary recording studio at the St. James Hotel in downtown Knoxville and invited locals to come make records. These old-time, jazz, blues, and gospel recordings added Knoxville's voice to American popular music and inspired the next generation of country music stars. In an...
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August 1, 2016 - 9:00am to August 7, 2016 - 5:00pmThe East Tennessee Historical Society is pleased to partner with East Tennessee PBS and the Beck Cultural Exchange Center to commemorate the 8th of August as the date traditionally observed as the day on which Andrew Johnson freed his slaves. Although President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect January 1, 1863, it did not apply to...
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