Dayton (Tennessee)

Dayton is the seat of Rhea County in Eastern Tennessee.

Understand
Though originally settled around 1820, what really put Dayton on the map was the famous Scopes Trial of 1925, where a teacher named John T Scopes challenged the Butler Act of the state of Tennessee which dictated teachers not teach in a way that denied the biblical account of mankind's origin, that is to say, it prohibited the teaching of evolution. The prosecution was led by William Jennings Bryan while the defense lay in the hands of Clarence Darrow.