Charles Hall Museum & Heritage Center

10/14/2026

The weather looks beautiful, and our mountains are ablaze with fall color at the higher elevations! 🍁 It's the perfect time to bring out your classic vehicle or motorcycle and join us in giving a big welcome to Brandon Atkins and the Winged Warriors!
Saturday, October 17th from 10 AM–2 PM
Come enjoy a beautiful fall day in Tellico Plains, visit with the Winged Warriors, grab some lunch from TK Grill, shop our gift shops, and experience all the museum has to offer!

09/28/2026

We look forward to honoring Uncle Josh again this year at the Cherohala Skyway Festival-Josh Graves Music Tribute with 6 live blue grass band that include his nephews. Tim Graves, Master Dobro Player, will be leading a free workshop the evening before (Oct 23) and also doing a dobro tribute during the festival, Oct 24. The Cherohala Skyway Visitor's Center next door to the museum has a display on Uncle Josh and is listed on the Tennessee Music Pathways map. The Hall Museum's Uncle Josh display includes the story of his life and one of his dobros compliments of the Randolph family.

Remembering Josh Graves, The Man Who Gave Bluegrass Its Soul.🎸

Before Josh "Uncle Josh" Graves picked up the dobro, it was just a quiet backup instrument in country music. He turned it into a voice, bending blues and sliding steel into the heart of bluegrass, right alongside Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

Born in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, Graves grew up on Appalachian tunes and blues records, and somehow found a way to make both live in the same six strings. That raw, soulful, unmistakably sound of him is still echoing through every dobro player who's picked one up since.

He didn't just play an instrument. He gave it a whole new reason to be in the room.

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Josh.✨
Bluegrass still carries your fingerprints.

What's the first Josh Graves lick or song that made you fall in love with the dobro?

09/24/2026

Just a few of our fun visitors lately: Pictured is a few of children from a Chattanooga homeschool group, a Riverside Baptist Church group from Harriman and a colorful lineup of Polaris Slingshots stopped by the Charles Hall Museum on their way to drive the Cherohala Skyway. They were from Wisconsin and camping in Lenoir City! Celebrating Constitution Week, we welcomed the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution for "Ringing of the Bells Across America."

09/22/2026

Congratulations to our Monroe County Tourism Director, Blaina Best! We so appreciate our partnership in growing heritage tourism in Monroe County! Blaina, You are the BEST! Visit Monroe TN

✨ A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VERY OWN BLAINA BEST! ✨

We are incredibly proud to announce that Monroe County Director of Tourism Blaina Best has been named the 2026 Women in Tourism & Hospitality Leader of the Year for the State of Tennessee!

Blaina received this prestigious statewide honor this week at the Tennessee Governor’s Conference on Hospitality and Tourism in Gatlinburg during the Stars of the Industry Awards Gala, sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The award is presented by the Tennessee Hospitality & Tourism Association (TNHTA) and recognizes a woman in Tennessee’s hospitality and tourism industry who demonstrates leadership, serves as a role model, and makes a meaningful impact through her accomplishments, initiative, and service to the industry.

And if you know Blaina, you know this recognition represents so much more than a title. From promoting Monroe County to developing new tourism campaigns, creating partnerships, supporting our local businesses, events, and communities, welcoming visitors, and constantly looking for new ways to tell the story of our beautiful corner of Tennessee, Blaina pours her heart into this work every single day.

We are so proud to see Monroe County represented on the statewide stage and even prouder to celebrate a leader who believes deeply in the people, places, businesses, and stories that make our county special.

Congratulations, Blaina! Monroe County is lucky to have you and Tennessee tourism is better because of your leadership, passion, and dedication.

09/21/2026

We always enjoy visits from our friends from Tennessee Overhill!

09/11/2026

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
WE REMEMBER

25 Years Later — We Will Never Forget