Dunlap Coke Ovens Coal mining museum and park

Dunlap Coke Ovens Coal mining museum and park Historic site containing the ruins of 268 Beehive Coke Ovens built in 1902. A two story museum houses coal history of the Sequatchie Valley.

88 Acre Historic Site located at the base of Fredonia Mountain (Cumberland Plateau), North West of the center of Dunlap. Located inside the city limits of Dunlap, TN 3/4 mile from U.S. 127. All public structures are Handicap ready including restrooms. No paved trails exist and most historic ruins are on gravel or dirt base.

"Valley Grass" Band will play Saturday Evening Sept. 5th. at the Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum Bluegrass Performance Center. ...
09/04/2026

"Valley Grass" Band will play Saturday Evening Sept. 5th. at the Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum Bluegrass Performance Center. Music starts at 6:00 p.m. CST $5.00 per person. Food on site by the "Country Caterer"

Music this Sat. Sept. 5th. - Valley Grass Band- 6:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum Bluegrass Performance Cen...
09/03/2026

Music this Sat. Sept. 5th. - Valley Grass Band- 6:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum Bluegrass Performance Center $5.00 admission. Food on site by "Country Caterer".

The music location shown being prepared for our monthly Saturday evening "Bluegrass in the Holler" by the volunteers today as our master carpenter Earl Eames also the Banjo man prepared upgrades to the new venue connected to the museum. The facility will change a little each month as we are upgrading with limited donated funds until it is finished. Our hope is to fully insulate and air-condition the center but the roll-up glass doors and flow through of air using installed coal mine ventilation fan in the evening is efficient and we have plenty of shade and porch space! The museum inside is totally air-conditioned and the door is open for the music fans convenience. Museum will be open Saturday morning at 10:00a.m. and remain open until the band plays around 8:00p.m. that night. We will leave the light on fer ya!

Historic Photo 1980's of a late summer harvest of a different kind with Law Enforcement Officers in Dunlap, TN posing wi...
09/02/2026

Historic Photo 1980's of a late summer harvest of a different kind with Law Enforcement Officers in Dunlap, TN posing with H**p Stalks discovered by the State Patrol Helicopter . The truck load of Ma*****na plants made ready for burning in the landfill.

Historic Photo taken in the 1970's of Mr. Wallace Barker and a farm hand beside US-127 outside of Dunlap, TN shocking H...
09/02/2026

Historic Photo taken in the 1970's of Mr. Wallace Barker and a farm hand beside US-127 outside of Dunlap, TN shocking HyGear stalks for later collection to feed livestock. The labor intensive practice in the valley is no longer seen. Carson Camp photographer Sequatchie Valley Historical-Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum.

Sequatchie Valley an informative color map design used to illustrate the over 70 mile long, five mile wide valley and so...
09/02/2026

Sequatchie Valley an informative color map design used to illustrate the over 70 mile long, five mile wide valley and some of the major highways which today cross this unique obstacle for early settlers. Early domain of various native people and former lands of the Native Cherokee Indians until 1838 when they were forced by the U.S. Government to Oklahoma. The only detailed recorded daily journal of the Cherokee crossing the valley is in the Reverend Daniel Buttrick Diary. Records indicate two travel routes crossing the valley from the departure points at Birchwood and Brainerd Mission, at Chattanooga, TN over Walden Ridge and for at least two detachments the first leaving in November 1838, of one thousand people through present day Dunlap camping on their second travel day, near Coops Creek at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in proximity of the Dunlap Coke Ovens Park on then named Hill (Turnpike) Road. Today a printed copy details the hardships and timeline of this ordeal. The original hand written words exist in the Harvard University Library. A transcribed printed copy is displayed in the members room at the Sequatchie Valley Historical Association-Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum, Dunlap, TN

Historic 1916 image of the Dunlap, TN Commissary "Company Store" today the site of the full size replica Dunlap Coke Ove...
09/02/2026

Historic 1916 image of the Dunlap, TN Commissary "Company Store" today the site of the full size replica Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum built on the exact location. In the background can be seen the first 1906 era coal washer and the mountainside of Fredonia with the incline railway visible in the upper center as it cuts through the hanging sand stone cliff . Historic Photo Archives of the Sequatchie Valley Historical Association-Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum.

Sequatchie Valley and Dunlap, TN seen from the site of the old Fredonia Mountain mule barn ruins above the Historic Dunl...
09/02/2026

Sequatchie Valley and Dunlap, TN seen from the site of the old Fredonia Mountain mule barn ruins above the Historic Dunlap Coke Ovens Park. Accessible in the winter months by climbing the incline trail, not advisable in the summer months due to numerous rattlesnake encounters around the rocks.

This massive hand cut sandstone wall exist in the Dunlap Coke Oven Park on the Little Brush Creek Railroad at the coal w...
09/02/2026

This massive hand cut sandstone wall exist in the Dunlap Coke Oven Park on the Little Brush Creek Railroad at the coal washer ruins on the rail trail just northeast of the Dunlap Amphitheater in the park. Park staff can give directions using the color map of the park grounds, as it exist in an undeveloped historic section of the park near Dell Trail. The Sequatchie Valley Historical Association was donated the property some years ago and soon it will be easily connected to their trail network. Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum.

Historic Incline Skate Board- Used by Sequatchie Valley Coal Miners and Inclines of the region to allow coal miners a qu...
09/02/2026

Historic Incline Skate Board- Used by Sequatchie Valley Coal Miners and Inclines of the region to allow coal miners a quick way to get home in the Valley by sliding down the mountain at speeds of sixty miles per hour. This is the only known photo in existence of a group of miners posed as they begin the evening practice of using the device to make an almost one mile slide to their homes in the valley after a ten hour day underground. Commonly called an "Incline Horse" seat made of wood, nailed to a steel horse shoe, and a metal roller. The child worker on the left is holding the hand made transportation device to be viewed by the photographer. Before 1916 Original photo property in the Archives of the Sequatchie Valley Historical Association-Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum

Historic Coal Mine Number 2 on the Cumberland Plateau (Fredonia Mountain) near Coops Creek around 1899 supplied coal for...
09/02/2026

Historic Coal Mine Number 2 on the Cumberland Plateau (Fredonia Mountain) near Coops Creek around 1899 supplied coal for the Dunlap Coke Ovens and Railroads until 1927 Dunlap, TN Photo Archives of the Sequatchie Valley Historical Association-Dunlap Coke Ovens Museum.

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350 Mountain View Cir
Dunlap, TN
37327

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(423) 949-2156

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