Rutherford County Courthouse and Square

In 1920, Sarah Spence DeBow and other women gathered names here on a petition in favor of woman suffrage, while anti-suffragists protested in the yard after Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. In the 1950s, Sarah McKelley King and female colleagues led the fight to restore rather than demolish the courthouse, which dates to 1859 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Pride of Tennessee painting honors anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett and suffrage leader Anne Dallas Dudley.