East Tennessee’s most important cultural heritage sites are partnering to provide the Statehood Day Heritage Festival on Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1. The sites include places of historical significance in the exciting journey of Tennessee becoming the 16th state in 1796. They include Ft. Loudoun, the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, James White Fort, Marble Springs, Ramsey House, Mabry-Hazen House and the Blount Mansion.

Each site will be providing special activities to commemorate events leading to our Statehood including: historical reenactments, Native American living history, live music colonial cooking, and frontier arts and crafts demonstrations. All events will be free and open to the public.

Contact Blount Mansion at 865-525-2375 or Ft. Loudoun at 423-884-6217 for more information