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Where the Scopes Trial, or The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, but better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, took place. The teacher John Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but it was overturned on a technicality. The prosecutor William Jennings Bryan would die five days later from complications related to diabetes and fatigue. The trial would bring light to the contention between religion versus rational thought in the curriculum of schools, and, in a bigger sense, between Fundamentalism and Modernism, but the Butler Act wouldn't be repealed until the 1960s. Pictures and news clippings relate the story inside the courthouse, while statues of Bryan and Darrow lurk outside.
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law which outlawed the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant. Scopes was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had offered to defend anyone accused of violating the Butler Act in an effort to challenge the constitutionality of the law.
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A natural area where you can visit tunnels and remains of a coal and coke mine, the Laurel and Snow Waterfalls, and Buzzard Point. The hilly topography is very serene.