Paducah, Kentucky: Grave of Scopes: Monkey Man
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Oak Grove Cemetery
- Address:
- 1613 Park Ave., Paducah, KY
- Directions:
- I-24 exit 4. Drive east on US-24 BUS/Park Ave. for 3.5 miles. Turn left (no stoplight) onto 16th St., then left agin at the stop sign. You'll see the marker ahead, on the right, at the entrance to Oak Grove Cemetery.
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John Scopes was a Tennessee schoolteacher who in 1925 dared to teach his class about evolution. When he died, he was buried here.
Roadsideamerica.com Report... [07/23/2012]Visitor Tips and News About Grave of Scopes: Monkey Man
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Enter the cemetery off of Park Avenue under the Oak Grove Cemetery sign. You will be on Myrtle Ave. Take Myrtle Avenue to its end: Hope Avenue. The Scopes plot is on the corner of Myrtle and Hope.
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Scopes, a schoolteacher who taught Evolution in defiance of Tennessee law, has "A Man of Courage" engraved on his tombstone.