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East Tennessee Fossil Site Gets Visitors’ Center
Published Apr 08, 2008

No bones about it – the Gray Fossil Site in East Tennessee is home to fossils that date back as far as 7 million years.

In 2000, road crews with the Tennessee Department of Transportation uncovered a fossil-rich plot of land near Daniel Boone High School in Gray, Tenn. Now, a $10 million visitors center has been constructed nearby on the campus of East Tennessee State University, for tourists interested in learning more about the fossils at the ETSU Museum of Natural History and Gray Fossil Site.

Archeologists have already unearthed remains of red pandas, ground sloths and rhinoceroses, and the site is being heralded as having some of the world’s richest tapir deposits.

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Tennessee Economic Development Guide, 2009 Edition

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East Tennessee Fossil Site Gets Visitors’ Center

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East Tennessee fossil site gets visitors' center

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