Chester County Museum

05/16/2025

Rest in peace, Joe Don Baker. 🕊️ We all loved you in "Walking Tall." 💔

04/09/2024

Very cool presentation about Chester County's Plowboy, Eddy Arnold, at The Carnegie Featuring The Tennessee Legends of Music Museum

03/10/2023

02/14/2022

Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️♥️

11/14/2021

The Tennessee Plowboy from Chester County, Eddy Arnold.

On November 1, 1947, Eddy Arnold began an unequalled run of domination on the Billboard country singles charts. On that date, the twenty-nine-year-old with the smooth baritone gained a #1 hit with “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms).”

Incredibly, Arnold didn’t relinquish the top spot on the country charts until more than a year later. No country artist has ever duplicated that feat.

After “I’ll Hold You in My Heart,” the broad-shouldered singer known as the “Tennessee Plowboy” continued his unbroken string of chart-toppers with the romantic songs “Anytime,” “Bouquet of Roses,” “Texarkana Baby,” and “Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way).”

Eddy Arnold was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966 and passed away in 2008 at age eighty-nine. All told, he placed 146 hits on the “Billboard” country charts.

Learn more: https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/eddy-arnold/

09/15/2018

Plowboy Records

We are celebrating what would be 100th birthday with & - find the booth and pick up stickers & literature about the LP! It includes & many more!

05/15/2018

Happy Birthday to Chester County's own Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy. He would have been 100 today.

Today would be Eddy Arnold’s 100th Birthday! Help us celebrate that at his former home in Brentwood, TN, now known as Você on 5/17/18 from 4-7pm. Food and drink will be served and music by Patrick Sweany’s Tiger Beats, Pete Mroz and Jim Aycock!. Go to for more details.

06/27/2017

Summer is officially here, and it's probably about time for a road trip! If only we all had a ride as cool as this one... | Eddy and Sally Arnold, circa 1947

06/25/2017

Half-hour special edition of Jackson 24-7 spotlighting the dedication of a monument to honor Jackson TN suffrage advocate Sue Shelton White. The dedication w...

05/09/2016

Today, we remember Chester County's most famous son, Official Eddy Arnold Site. What a great legacy he left on music!

Eddy Arnold - 5/15/1918- 5/8/08 - we miss you

05/08/2016

We extend sympathy to the family of Bobby Barnes. He was the Historian of Chester County and was fundamental in establishing the historical room at the Library which eventually turned into the Chester County Museum. Please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.