It was called “The World’s Most Famous Court Trial” because in 1925 the attention of the world was focused on what was happening in a courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee.

More than 2 million words were transmitted by telegraphers from their stations in Dayton, giving the world a record of the arguments that defined the Scopes Trial, and Destiny in Dayton follows that path.

We invite you to visit Dayton, Tenn., each July to see a dramatization of the Scopes Trial, presented in the courtroom where William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow and their colleagues argued a misdemeanor case, an argument that reverberates today.

Scopes Trial Play & Festival