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Pulaski-Giles County Culture Provides Enrichment for Everyone
Pulaski-Giles County is rich with Civil War history and has an assortment of other culturally significant things to see and do. Whether you simply love to learn or indulge in the arts, Pulaski-Giles County provides art and culture around every corner.
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Hallehurst is the only neo-classical style house in Giles County, and was built in 1889 by the county's first millionaire Senator Newton H. White. It has been architecturally restored and is on the National Register of Historical... Read More »
Southern Tennessee Area Arts Repertory Moves to Old Opera House
To see an exciting, high-energy play or musical in Giles County, performing arts patrons need only head to the same place like-minded people turned 140 years ago – the opera house on Pulaski’s town square.
The historic building is the new home of the Southern Tennessee Area Arts Repertory, a nonprofit community theater organization that presents a different play or musical every six weeks.
“The opera house building was built in 1868, and it’s the oldest standing opera... Read More »
Pulaski, Giles Honor Confederate Hero Sam Davis
The Civil War ended more than a century ago, but standing on the windswept, open fields a few miles south of Pulaski near the Minor Hill community, the conflict feels much more immediate.Boy Hero of the ConfederacyThis is the spot where the story of courier Sam Davis, the “boy hero of the Confederacy,” begins. Davis was captured here on Nov. 19, 1863, brought to Pulaski to be jailed and tried, and was hanged there on Nov 27. He had just turned 21. Many of the sites along his final... Read More »
