The East Tennessee town of Dayton and the Rhea County Courthouse (at left) drew national attention back in 1925 because of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. While the arrest of a local teacher for promoting the idea of the "theory of evolution" is generally regarded as a farce to help bring the argument to a trial here (and the publicity of its town), it did shine the spotlight on the creation vs evolution debate...and did in fact attract attention to this sleepy little town. The focus was as much on the lawyers, famed prosecutor William Jennings Bryan and defense attorney Clarence Darrow, as on the debate of evolution. Bryan clearly had the home court advantage over Darrow before, during, and after the trial that ended in a win for the prosecution and a fine for the teacher John Scopes which was later overturned on a technicality. A statue of Bryan graces the courthouse lawn and a college in the town bears his name.