Clay County Trip Planner
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Located at the Clay County Fairgrounds
Gates open 4 PM Tuesday through Friday
Saturday Gate Opens at Noon
Midway Starts 6PM each Night

Celina Lions Club 50th Annual Walking Horse Show
Clay County Recreation Complex


Truck & Tractor Pull
Clay County Recreation Complex
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From Cave City, Kentucky thru Tennessee - Around Dale Hollow Lake and Back to Glasgow, Kentucky.
Ride Rural America's 150 miles Rollercoaster Yard Sale!
The Oldest and most Authentic Yard Sale in the Region!


Get your award winning chili recipe and join in the fun!


The fish hatchery has a half-mile long, paved walking trail adjacent to the creek and provides visitors with an opportunity to exercise and bird watch. Operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, this National Fish Hatchery was established to mitigate for fishery resources which were lost due to the construction of federal water development projects in the Southeast.

The Red Oak Ridge Trail system consists of 18 miles of horseback riding and hiking trails on and over looking Dale Hollow Lake in middle Tennessee. The trailhead is located 8 miles north of Celina Tennessee, 3 miles miles off of Hwy 53.


Cedar Hill Resort is located on the northwestern end of Dale Hollow Lake about a mile from the Dale Hollow Dam. Family owned and operated for more than 60 years, they offer luxurious houseboat rentals and lake view cabin rentals.

Ollie's Place is a little restaurant near Celina,TN that is best recognized by its statue of an elephant in its parking lot. It is also a very well known restaurant to folks that are traveling through the area to Dale Hollow Lake and they get great reviews for their friendly service and high quality food.


Dale Hollow Inn is nearby Dale Hollow Dam Recreation Area, Dale Hollow Marina & Cedar Hill Resort and within walking distance to 2 restaurants and 3 lounges. Formerly known as Holiday Hill, it has been recently renovated and is under new ownership.


The courteous owners of Dale Hollow Lodging and Storage offer clean lodging rooms with 2 double beds, bathroom with a shower, mini fridge, microwave and a coffee pot. Each room has AC/heat.Call for your reservation-or if passing through, call the below number and they will meet you there to sign you in.


Dale Hollow Marina is a family resort, family-owned and operated, and large enough to offer you a wide range of accommodations; yet, it is small enough to give you the personal service that makes vacations special. They are known for their cleanliness and attention to detail.


Hollow Log Cabins offers some of the area’s most comfortable, well-equipped, and scenic accommodations in the Dale Hollow Lake area. Hollow Log Cabins and Smallmouth Specialty Guide Service are owned and operated by John Hunt Davis, a US Coast Guard Certified Fishing Guide.


Clay County Tennessee's Horse Creek Resort is located on the lake shore of beautiful Dale Hollow Lake in a scenic valley immediately off TN Hwy. 52. Only 5 miles from Celina and some 13 miles from Livingston, TN, there is a Golf course nearby and you can be picked up at the Livingston Airport if you would like to fly in.


Around 1939 Herman and Bethel Gas built a building for a restaurant at the point of three roads converging and leading to Celina, Red Boiling Springs, and Tomkinsville, KY - thus the name, "3-Way In" After a year or two the building was bought by Winnie Cherry and turned into a country grocery store. In the late 1960's William Cherry bought the store from Winnie. It is the only true "country store" remaining in Clay County.


The Clay County Courthouse was designed by D.L. Dow of Cookeville, TN and was built from bricks using clay that was extracted from the Public Square. The last Clay County government offices moved from this building to anew county government complex in February 2012.


Clay County High School, the first public secondary school in the county, was established by the Clay County Board of Education in 1919. In 1933, the timber frame building was replaced with a larger two-story brick structure, and the name of the school was changed to Celina High School.


The Cordell Hull Law Office seen today has been moved many times and has changed from a three-room building to two. Cordell Hull used the building as a law office in 1891. He pursued a political move in 1892. After a stint with the U.S. Army, including service in the Spanish-American War, Hull returned to Celina in 1901.


“Rosenwald School” was the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teacher's homes in the United States built primarily for the education of African American children in the South, who were required to attend segregated schools.


The original building was a bank owned by J. W. Green of Hermitage Springs. When the bank closed, the buildingwas owned by different people and became a grocery store and other businesses, including a beauty shop in the back part. The building was demolished in the late 1970's or early 1980's, and the cement bank vault was left standing.


Four-tenths mile west of the intersection of Bakerton Road and Trace Creek Road, Leonard Community. In the early 1900's the Tennessee State Geology Department unearthed four large skeletons and other artifacts that established that the Leonard Cave had served as a burial ground for Native Americans.


Isolated from the rest of Clay County by Dale Hollow Lake, Maple Grove School is currently the smallest public school in Tennessee, with approximately 35 students and three teachers for grades K-8. The school was established in 1936 with 32 students.


The McColgan Home was built in 1858 by Dr. Wilson McColgan (1825-1910) of brick burned by slaves who lived on the farm. The home had fourteen rooms, five of which had fireplace, a basement, and three chimneys. The walls of the home were four bricks thick. The McColgan family named the community of Arcot for their ancestral home in Scotland.


The Congregation got its name from the beautiful streams of clear cold water gushing from between huge layers of limestone. The church was organized the first Sunday in January 1805. It is believed to be the oldest, continuously existing Church of Christ in America.


Montvale Academy was organized April 13, 1882, by Isaiah Fitzgerald, A.P. Green, John H. McMillan, J.H. Stephens, V.P. Smith, and William Love. Montvale Academy was an outstanding private school. Many of its students became doctors, lawyers, judges, and teachers.


Around 1939 Herman and Bethel Gas built a building for a restaurant at the point of three roads converging and leading to Celina, Red Boiling Springs, and Tomkinsville, KY - thus the name, "3-Way In" After a year or two the building was bought by Winnie Cherry and turned into a country grocery store. In the late 1960's William Cherry bought the store from Winnie. It is the only true "country store" remaining in Clay County.