Cookeville-native Hennie Copeland was once known as the "Midwife of the Cumberlands." She rode through the rugged Cumberland Mountains on this side saddle, helping to [...]

In 1888, a group of unwed girls from Union County, Tennessee made a friendship quilt for Marcellus Moss Rice. The girls spent a good deal [...]

This banjo was owned by Henry Dobson, an African-American musician from South Carolina. One night in 1895, at a party held near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dobson [...]

During the Civil War, Lane Cunningham left the rural but beautiful hills of White County, Tennessee to join the Army. Before his departure, Lane hid [...]

Sarah Irwin, or “Granny Irwin,” was one of two girls in a family with eleven children. Her sister, who was much older, married and left [...]

The peaceful little village of Old Loyston, Tennessee was located less than 10 miles from where the Museum now stands, and it was often said [...]

Pictured here is the sweater that Granny Toothman knitted from the spring shedding of her Samoyed dog. The dog is named after the Samoyedic people [...]

James Bunch of Madisonville, Tennessee used his pocketknife to create this wooden motorcycle. Every piece of the motorcycle is made of scrap wood—right down to the [...]

The twisted piece of wood on the right was once as straight as an arrow—just as straight as the piece shown on the left. Harve [...]

Around 1978, Museum founder John Rice Irwin purchased this pie safe from Ethel Freytag. Ethel was a historian and retired school teacher who lived on [...]