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Old Washington (formerly Washington) is an unincorporated community and a former county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee. History. After considering several options, a site at the head of Spring Creek was selected in 1812 to be the county seat of Rhea County. This site was established as the town of Washington.
Rhea County (/ r eɪ / RAY [2]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, its population was 32,870. [3] Its county seat is Dayton. [4] Rhea County comprises the Dayton, TN micropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL combined statistical area.
Location of Dayton in Rhea County, Tennessee. / 35.500°N 85.017°W / 35.500; -85.017. The Rhea County courthouse is home of the famous "Monkey Trial". Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. [7] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,065. [8]
1303755 [2] Website. www .townofspringcitytn .org. Spring City is a town in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,949 at the 2020 census and 1,981 at the 2010 census. The town is located along Watts Bar Lake, and Watts Bar Dam and the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station are nearby.
In 2013, Rhea County High School celebrated their 40th year since the school was established and Spring City and Rhea Central were brought together to form what is now well known as Rhea County High School. Also in 2013, following the 40th year celebration of the school, was the building of a new addition that spanned to cover 320,000 square feet.
December 8, 1976 [2] The Rhea County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in the center of Dayton, the county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee. Built in 1891, it is famous as the scene of the Scopes trial of July 1925, in which teacher John T. Scopes faced charges for including Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution in his public school lesson.
Rhea County Department of Education, also known as Rhea County Schools or Rhea School District, is a school district headquartered in Dayton, Tennessee. [1] It serves students in the county, except for the City of Dayton, for elementary and middle school, as well as high school students throughout the entire county. [2]
The Daily Herald. The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper in Columbia, Tennessee. The newspaper is published six days a week Sunday through Friday; the paper does not publish on Saturday. Although it is primarily distributed to Maury County, Tennessee its Newspaper Designated Market (N.D.M.) stretches into five counties in Southern Middle Tennessee.