Baby Falls 15’ – FS road 210 (Tellico River Rd). Located right next to the road, this waterfall is a favorite for kayakers. Rocks are slippery. Several people have been seriously injured here so enjoy the beauty from a safe distance. From Cherohala Skyway (Hwy 165) take FS road 210. (GPS: 35.3267, -84.1765) Monroe County.
TOHA recently entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service National Trail Office to research and document the Trail of Tears route from Fort Armistead through Monroe and McMinn counties to Fort Cass. 2001 Study of Trail of Tears through E. Tennessee Partners: National Park Service, University of North Carolina Laboratory of Archaeology, Coker Creek Heritage Group, Monroe…
McMinn County Historical Society McMinn County Courthouse, Room #7 6 West Madison Ave Athens, TN 37303 423- 744-3911 McMinn County Historical Society Monroe County Archives 105 College Street, Suite 10 (located in the Historic Monroe County Courthouse) Madisonville, TN 37354 423-420-0910 http://www.monroetnarchives.org/ Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society 140 Commerce St Benton, TN 37307 423-338-4506 www.pchgs.com Polk…
The Monroe County Courthouse, designed by Baumann Brothers and Company of Knoxville, was built in 1897 to replace an earlier courthouse that sat on the same site. The construction of the new courthouse coincided with plans of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to build a new rail line linking Atlanta and Knoxville which would pass directly through Madisonville, giving the…