Historic Collinsville is a living history museum featuring authentically restored log houses and outbuildings dating from 1830 to 1870. The settlement takes visitors from the earliest "first home" to the expansive big house on the hill with separate kitchen, living and sleeping areas. Each home and outbuilding has been painstakingly restored to its original condition and furnished authentically.

Enter into our history and see how life was then lived. Learn what made us "people of strength". Enjoy the rolling hills of Tennessee, quiet walks or a picnic under the trees while exploring one of the log homes, like the 1870 two-story, double-pen dogtrot house with attached kitchen.

This is the land where the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Iroquois and Shawnee Indians traveled. It is where the soldiers of the North and South met; just 45 miles to the northwest is Fort Donelson National Battlefield, the site of a major battle of the Civil War. Cotton and sheep were raised by the early settlers and then transported by land and down the Cumberland River which lies just two miles away. Now, on the same river, the Delta Queen Riverboat slowly slips its way south to Nashville and passes fields of corn, wheat, soybeans and cattle.