Did your family live in Tennessee? Load your tree to see which of these places stand near where they lived. Try it with your own tree
The Tennessee Historical Commission runs the state's historical marker program. 1,631 of them have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each carrying the Commission's own text word for word on maps from the eras it describes, and each pinned where the Commission's own layer places the sign. Markers whose pin or text in that layer needs a second look are not shown yet.
1,631 marker pages, on more than 83,000 historical map sheets. Tennessee Historical Commission, credited on every page.
Every dot is a live page. Tap or click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers, so tap a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 1,631 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Tennessee, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
The Scopes Trial · near where a family lived in Rhea County in the 1920s · what this marker records dates to 1925, inside the family’s years here
When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Tennessee family sees Tennessee’s).
Browsing all 1,631 markers by county.
Scan: the Scopes Trial marker page