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School House
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The schoolhouse quilt block at the Nathanael Greene Museum was chosen because it pays homage to the fact that the Museum is located in Greeneville's first high school. Although the museum does not have a school house quilt in its collection, it is seeking to add one to the collection. The Museum, the largest regional museum in Northeast TN, displays a 64 square foot School House quilt square. It was unveiled on Saturday, October 18, 2009, and is set in a diamond shaped pattern of yellow bricks near the building entrance. This event marked "the first of a first" because Greeneville was the first municipality included in the Northeast TN Quilt Trail and the Nathanael Greene Quilt Square was the first quilt square to be featured in Greeneville. The museum's 11 permanent exhibits span the history of Greene County and two Greene County natives, Davy Crocket and President Andrew Johnson are highlighted. A mural of Crocket's life experiences leads the smallest visitor into the Children's Adventure room, where they may walk among an Indian village and crawl through a bear den. The life size log cabin in reminiscent of Crocket's birth place. Through a focused selection of artifacts in the President's Gallery, visitors will explore the family life of President Andrew Johnson, a deep and complex politician. An added dimension of Johnson's life is outlined in the Paths To Freedom Exhibit, where the visitor will come to understand the struggle to end slavery in Greene County. The visitor is then lead into a gallery that celebrates the contributions of Greene County African Americans. The Civil War gallery continues the stories of Greene County soldiers, such as the "Bridge Burners," as well as the death of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan. The Veteran's Honor Gallery pays homage to the full range Greene County soldiers who served from the Revolutionary War to the War in Iraq.
As a state chartered, non-profit organization, the mission of the Nathanael Greene Museum is to entertain and educate our visitors. We do this through collecting, preserving and presenting information and artifacts of historic relativity to Greene County and its neighboring counties.
For those visitors interested in fine furniture and the elegant lifestyles of Greene County residents, the museum's collection of antiques will illustrate the promise of 19th century America. To complete the story of the Quilt Square, the museum boasts of a collection of East Tennessee woven coverlets and Greene County quilts, both of which are prominently displayed. In October 2009, the museum will host the month-long exhibit :"The History of Greene County Quilts."
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Greeneville, Tennessee
423-636-1558
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36.160494 °N, -82.832752 °W