Marble Springs State Historic Site 225th Statehood Day Festival

Join Marble Springs State Historic Site on Sunday, May 30th from 12 to 4 pm to celebrate Tennessee’s 225th Statehood Anniversary. Marble Springs, the home of Tennessee’s first governor John Sevier, is embedded in the rich history of Tennessee’s statehood. To celebrate this momentous milestone, Marble Springs is holding a Statehood Festival to commemorate Tennessee’s past, rejoice in its present, and envision a promising future.

Marble Spring’s Statehood Festival will comprise of historical demonstrations and reenactors, a local craft fair featuring community artisans and unique goods to share, food trucks, a performance of live Celtic Music by Wild Blue Yonder, as well as a historic lecture titled, “Colonial Drumming: Practices and Purposes”, by Dr. Dale Disney, lecturer of musicology at the University of Tennessee.

The historic lecture, “Colonial Drumming: Practices and Purposes” by Dr. Disney will be at the pavilion at 1 pm.

The live Celtic music by Wild Blue Yonder will be on the porch at 2 pm.

The event is free and open to the public.

Funding has been provided by Humanities Tennessee and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020. Marble Springs State Historic Site is funded under an agreement with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Tennessee Historical Commission.


Published April 24, 2021