Attractions

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1840 with original Babb family heirlooms and artifacts from the home.

20 — GRAYSBURG HILLS GOLF COURSE (27 HOLES): 910 Graysburg Hills Road, Chuckey, TN 37641. Public course. Tee times needed on weekends and holidays. Take Tennessee Highway 93 (Kingsport Highway) about 12 miles north from Greeneville; turn right on Ramsey Road.

21 — OLD HARMONY GRAVEYARD (1790):

East Church Street behind Greeneville Town Hall, about one block south of N. Main Street.

22 — ROBY FITZGERALD ADULT CENTER:

Multi-purpose program serving senior citizens in the converted Greeneville Public School. Go one block on North Main then turn right onto East Church Street. Entrance faces Greeneville Town Hall on College Street.

23 — SAMUEL DOAK HOUSE: 1820 structure restored in 1976 by Greene County Heritage Trust. Take U.S. Highway 11E North (Andrew Johnson Highway) 3.8 miles; turn right onto Tennessee Highway 107 (Erwin Highway) east at Tusculum exit; one-eighth of a mile on right.

24 — ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH:

Consecrated in 1850. Walnut woodwork, former slave gallery, oldest organ in the state, Gen. John Hunt Morgan marker. One half block north of North Main Street on West Church Street in downtown Greeneville.

25 — ST. JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH:

Reconstructed in 1811. Revolutionary War graves in cemetery. Take U.S. Hwy. 321 (Newport Highway) west 10.6 miles, turn left on first road beyond Nolichucky River bridge; then 3.2 miles to St. James; then left on Church Hill Road.

The Bible Covered Bridge

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capitol. On College Street across from Greeneville Town Hall.

27 — TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY (1794):

The oldest college west of the Appalachian Mountains. Take U.S. Highway 11E North (Andrew Johnson Highway) 3.8 miles to Tusculum; turn right on Tennessee Highway 107 East (Erwin Highway); then 0.9 miles. Campus is to the right.

28 — TWIN CREEKS GOLF COURSE (18 HOLES):

Public course, par 76. Take U.S. Highway 11E North (Andrew Johnson Highway) 8 miles; course is on the right, 2 miles beyond Greene Valley Developmental Center.

Public course, par 70. Take U.S. Highway 321 (Newport Highway) south. After crossing Tennessee Highway 70 (Asheville Highway), go 1.3 miles then turn left onto Lick Hollow Road. Go 0.5 miles. It will be on the left.

31 — BAILEYTON GOLF CLUB (18 HOLES):

Public course, par 71. Located just outside Baileyton city limits on Horton Highway. Take Tennessee 172 (Baileyton Road) to Baileyton, proceed to red light and turn right.

32 — GREENEVILLE GREENE COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM:

Located on West McKee Street just off South Main. This museum is dedicated to preserving a record of the life and heritage of Greeneville and Greene County.

29 — BIBLE COVERED BRIDGE, WARRENSBURG (1921):

Take U.S. Highway 321 (Newport Highway) south 3 miles to Warrensburg Road; turn right and drive 12 miles; dirt road to bridge on the right. 33 — DICKSON-WILLIAMS MANSION:

Previously the house and grounds encompassed the entire block bounded by Main, Church, Irish and Depot streets. Restored 1820s-era mansion is at the corner of West Church and Irish streets. Tours available daily. For more information call 787-0500. HISTORY FROM 5

A replica of the house in Raleigh in which Andrew Johnson was born sits directly across the street from the 1830s home.

GENERAL JOHN HUNT MORGAN

During the Civil War, Greeneville changed hands numerous times between Union and Confederate forces.

Although the state as a whole had voted to secede from the Union, East Tennessee was an island of predominantly Unionist sentiment within the South.

At times during the war years, colorful but controversial Confederate cavalry leader General John Hunt Morgan was an overnight guest of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Williams, of Greeneville.

Admirers often referred to General Morgan as “The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy,” a reference to his lightningfast raids deep into Union-dominated territory. His men were known as “Morgan’s Raiders.”

On the morning of Sept. 4, 1864, Morgan was shot to death on the grounds of the Williams home during a surprise attack by federal troops. He had spent the previous night at the Williams home.

The brick residence, a famed showplace home from the early 1820s through the Civil War, has been restored as a house museum and now is called the DicksonWilliams Mansion. (Daily 90-minute tours start at 1 p.m. from the lobby of The General Morgan Inn.)

The present-day General Morgan Inn, a one-time railroad hotel formerly named Grand Central Hotel and then Hotel Brumley, which closed in 1981, stands not far from the site where Morgan was shot.

The century-old hotel was renovated in the 1990s and re-named in the slain Confederate general’s memory.

The hotel was the key element of a $15 million public-private downtown revitalization project known as Morgan Square. The new General Morgan Inn opened in 1996. Further renovations occurred in 2007.

BOTH SIDES HONORED

Greeneville is thought to be one of the few towns that honor both Union and Confederate forces on government property.

Two monuments relating to the Civil War period stand on the lawn of the Greene County Courthouse.

One, a statue of a standing Union soldier, is dedicated to local troops who served in the Grand Army of the Republic (Union army).

The other, a granite slab with engraved text dealing with General Morgan’s life and death, memorializes the fallen Confederate cavalry leader who died only a block away. Greeneville and Greene County are both named in honor of General Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island Quaker who joined the revolutionary army under General George Washington.

Greene, a protégé of Washington and one of his most trusted officers, became an outstanding American general who led in the defeat of British forces in the South. After the Revolutionary War, Greene died at age 45. He never visited this area.

Water from the spring that brought settlers to this area still runs quietly into Richland Creek, behind the GreenevilleGreene County Public Library on North Main Street.

Before the settlers came to what is now Greene County, the Big Spring was a water source for Native Americans who lived in the area.

The spring continued to serve as the leading local water source for more than 150 years after the Town of Greeneville was established in the early 1780s.