Tennessee · All 95 counties
Historical markers, Civil War battlefields, National Register places, museums, courthouses and cemeteries — 22,876 historic places on one map, with the stories behind them. Find what's near you, read the story, and go see it.
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What's on the map
Built from the Tennessee Historical Commission, the Historical Marker Database, the National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service, USGS and OpenStreetMap — and checked place by place.
All 95 counties
Not just the famous stops. Every corner of the state is on the map — places on the map, by region:
Cades Cove · Historic Jonesborough · Rocky Mount, the Southwest Territory's first capital
2,725Blount Mansion · the Museum of Appalachia · the Manhattan Project city of Oak Ridge
1,918Lookout Mountain · the Chattanooga Choo-Choo · the Red Clay Council Ground
1,437Historic Rugby · Sgt. Alvin C. York's home in Pall Mall · Fall Creek Falls
9,670The Ryman Auditorium · Fort Donelson · the Old Stone Fort at Manchester
4,561Sun Studio · the Lorraine Motel · Chucalissa · Fort Pillow
In the iPhone app
Walk it with a guide in your pocket, or head for the hills. Tours and trails live in the iPhone app — coming soon.
467 tours in 139 places
Narrated stops trigger as you arrive — no guide, no schedule. Every stop is fact‑checked and checked against the final map, from Memphis to Bristol.
2,483 trails across the state
Every one with its route drawn on the map, plus length and surface.
Campus history
From Fisk's Jubilee Hall to the bluffs at Sewanee, TennRoam maps 49 colleges and universities — with 79 guided campus tours so far, including Fisk University and the Jubilee Singers, the Vanderbilt University Campus Tour and the University of Tennessee Campus Tour in Knoxville.
How it works
Tap Near me, search a name, or filter by category and theme. Every pin has directions one tap away.
Open a pin for its history — our own sourced write‑ups, with the source named.
Arrive and check in. Every visit counts toward a ten‑rung ladder in each category and a title in every county.
A real page from the map
“Bill Monroe, a Grand Ole Opry star, took the Ryman Auditorium stage in December 1945 with his mandolin and a band that would create a new form of American music…”
A look inside
Explore by theme
Thirteen themes tie the places together — filter the map by any of them.
Battlefields, forts, earthworks and the towns the armies fought through.
Country, blues, soul, rockabilly and gospel — the studios, stages and birthplaces from Bristol to Beale Street.
Sit-ins, school desegregation, the Lorraine Motel and the people who changed Tennessee and the nation.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's dams and powerhouses, and the Manhattan Project's secret city at Oak Ridge.
Also: Frontier & Early Settlement · African American Heritage · Railroads & Depots · Mills, Mines & Furnaces · Cherokee, Chickasaw & Native Heritage · Tennessee's Presidents · Rivers, Ferries & Landings · College & University Campuses · Courthouses & Courthouse Squares
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Plus a ladder for every category — walk the battlefields and climb from Recruit and Picket to General of the Tennessee Campaigns.
A few worth pulling over for
Every site has its history, its source and directions — open the map to read them.
Built in 1892 as a revival tabernacle, home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974 — and the stage where bluegrass was born.
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One of the few Memphis hotels open to Black guests, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 — now the National Civil Rights Museum.
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A valley ringed by mountains, settled between 1818 and 1821 — its log cabins, churches and mill still stand in the national park.
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