Historical Marker
The Great Craighead Cave
Historical marker location:
140 Lost Sea Road, Sweetwater, Tennessee
( Marker is on Lost Sea Road, 0.2 miles north of Tennessee Route 68, on the right when traveling north.)
Mining a Strategic Material.
The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.