The Harper Center & Museum at Carter House
Through the efforts of our friends at the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tennessee General Assembly, a new visitor center is under construction at the Carter House State Historic Site. The new Harper Center will provide a proper space for orientation and for a museum where the story of a people forever impacted by the American Civil War can be preserved and interpreted for the next 40-50 years. But interpretation, and the cost associated with it, is up to us, and we need your assistance to properly outfit, build out, and creatively and accurately accomplish three goals:
Teach people how the United States of America was founded, and how the fledging country split and careened toward civil war.
Teach people about the war, its cost, what happened at Franklin, why the battle is important, and how, when the war finally ended, slavery had been destroyed and the Union had been preserved.
Continue to teach, including those yet to be born but who will visit at some point in the future, why the American Civil War was indeed a “rebirth of freedom” and how it affects all of us – today and into the future.
Double your gift impact today. Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor every gift directed to the new museum will be matched dollar for dollar up to $100,000.