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, 2019 - 9:00am to October 13, 2019 - 5:00pm -
Have a Blast with the Past! Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019August 17, 2019 - 10:00am to 5:00pmJoin the East Tennessee Historical Society on Saturday, August 17, for an one-of-a-kind celebration of our region's history! Participants representing the people, places, and events that shaped our past spill out of the East Tennessee History Center and fill downtown Knoxville, making history truly come alive...
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The Museum of East Tennessee History at 25September 15, 2018 - 10:00am to June 9, 2019 - 5:00pm“Let us hasten to redeem time that is lost.”—Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey to those in attendance at the East Tennessee Historical Society's first annual meeting, May 5, 1834 Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey’s plea to save Tennessee’s past continues to reverberate in the galleries of the East Tennessee Historical Society’s museum, a permanent home for our region’s... -
Hamilton: The Man and The MusicalMay 7, 2019 - 8:00pmThe
East Tennessee Historical Society
&
Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
with presenting sponsors
Pilot Flying J, DeRoyal, & KaTom Restaurant...
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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.
An...
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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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