Dayton, Tennessee Dayton, Tennessee Location of Dayton, Tennessee Location of Dayton, Tennessee State Tennessee Dayton is a town/city and governmental center of county in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 7,191. The Dayton Urban Cluster, which includes advanced areas adjoining to the town/city and extends south to Graysville, had 10,174 citizens in 2010.
Dayton was the site of the Scopes Trial in 1925 dealing with the creation evolution controversy.
In 1877, the town was retitled Dayton, after Dayton, Ohio. The town was incorporated in 1903.
In 1925, the famous Scopes Trial was held in Dayton and, for a reconstructionof time, filled the town with hucksters of every description and journalists from around the world.
Scopes, the defendant in the trial, was a small-town science teacher who was recruited by George Rappleyea to begin to teach evolution in his science class, despite it being against Tennessee law at that time.
Although this trial is often represented as being pivotal in the boss to allow evolution to be taught in American schools, it actually marked the beginning of a primary decline in the teaching of evolution which did not start to recover until the early 1960s.
On July 26, 1925, he drove from Chattanooga to Dayton to attend a church service, ate a meal, and died (the result of diabetes and fatigue) in his sleep that afternoon just five days after the Scopes trial ended.
Dayton is positioned at 35 30 N 85 1 W (35.493, -85.013). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.4 square miles (17 km2), of which 6.1 square miles (16 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (3.62%) is water.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 23.5% under the age of 18, 16.0% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 13.4% of families and 16.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 24.0% of those under age 18 and 16.6% of those age 65 or over.
Today the town/city is a small manufacturing center whose products include furniture, clothing, automobile parts, and air conditioners and heating units.
La-Z-Boy is the biggest manufacturing employer. The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear power plants are both inside 20 miles (32 km) of the city.
More recently, Dayton has hosted a several major fishing tournaments at Chickamauga Lake including the 2014 Bassmaster BASSfest, American Bass Anglers Weekend Series, Heartland Anglers Classic, the 2013 Walmart FLW Tour and various senior, collegiate and high school affairs. Dayton is also home to Bryan College, a four-year Christian liberal arts school titled in honor of William Jennings Bryan, who died in Dayton five days after the Scopes Trial ended.
Dayton City School, a K-8 enhance school, is no-charge for all inhabitants of Dayton.
Rhea Central Elementary School is the biggest K-5 enhance school in the state.
Oxford Graduate School, an institution of Christian postgraduate education, is positioned in Dayton's Crystal Springs community.
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Municipalities and communities of Rhea County, Tennessee, United States State of Tennessee
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