CCM to open warehouses on Aug. 14

Carter County Museum will be opening its warehouses to the public during the Days of ‘85. The warehouses, located just south of town on Hwy 323, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2p.m. on Saturday, August 14.

Warehouse 1 includes over 80 percent of museum fossils and some historical artifacts that are not on display in the museum. Everything from detailed cleaning and stabilizing fossils to making custom protective cradles for the specimens occurs in this warehouse. One project currently underway is the preparation of a giant aquatic reptile called a mosasaur, which swam in an ancient sea 70 millio...