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  1. 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]

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  2. It lies on Richland Creek near the Tennessee River, 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Chattanooga. Originally called Smith’s Crossroads (c. 1820), it was renamed Dayton in the 1870s. The Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton was the scene of the famous Scopes Trial (July 10–21, 1925), in which John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher, was found ...

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  4. Map of Dayton in Tennessee. Dayton is a city and county seat in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 7,065.

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  6. Rhea County is named for Tennessee politician and Revolutionary War veteran John Rhea . A portion of the Trail of Tears ran through the county as part of the United States government's removal of the Cherokee in the 1830s. During the American Civil War, Rhea County was one of the few counties in East Tennessee that were heavily sympathetic to ...

  7. This map was created by a user. Learn how to create your own. Located in southeast Tennessee between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Dayton was the site of the famous Scopes Trial in 1925 in which high ...

  8. Dayton City Municipal Building, P.O. Box 226, 399 1st Avenue, Dayton, Tennessee 37321 (423) 775-1817 | (423) 775-8404(fax) | Social Media | Powered by Revize | Login

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