Rogersville City Historical Markers

Map of Tennessee State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Rogersville

Rogersville City Historical Markers

Rogersville Churches

Old Cemetery - First Presbyterian Church of Rogersville

Old Cemetery
First Presbyterian Church of Rogersville

The Church was organized in 1805 and in 1824 t... [click for more]

St. Marks Presbyterian Church

Originated in 1875. St. Marks was the first black Presbyterian Church in Rogersville. Formerly located in the tenth Civil District, now McKinney Avenu... [click for more]

Rogersville Schools

Price Public School

Alexander Fain, Jordan Netherland, Albert Jones, and Nathaniel Mitchell, all Black Americans, purchased this land in 1868 for the purpose of building ... [click for more]

Swift Memorial College 1883~1962

Dr. William H. Franklin, the founder and President of Swift College, was one of the first black graduates from Maryville College, receiving his degree... [click for more]

Rogersville Historic Homes & Houses

Amis House

About 1 1/2 miles south is the stone house built by Thomas Amis between 1781 & 1783. He was Captain and Commissary of North Carolina troops in the Rev... [click for more]

Amis House

Amis House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Rogersville General Interest

Alexander Peter Stewart

Born here, Oct. 2, 1821; graduate USMA, 1842; resigned 1845, and a professor at Cumberland U., and U. of Nashville until 1861. Appointed major, CSA, q... [click for more]

Big Creek Skirmish ~ November 6, 1863

4 miles southwest, to the north of Big Creek, the Confederate cavalry brigades of Gen. Sam Jones, coming from Rogersville, and of Col. Henry Giltner, ... [click for more]

Great Indian War Path

From here north to the Virginia boundary at Bristol, the highway parallels this ancient and important Indian trail. South of here the War Path was eas... [click for more]

Hezekiah Hamblen

One-half mile west is buried this pioneer, born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1775. Arriving in 1778, he later became a surveyor and was also ... [click for more]

Indian Boundary

This is Cloud's Creek. A line running from its mouth to Cumberland Gap was the boundary between white settlement and Indian territory under the Treaty... [click for more]

Michael Looney

7.9 miles north was the homestead of this pioneer, veteran of Lord Dunsmore's War and of the Revolution, originally from Botetourt County, Va. Among h... [click for more]

Rogers Cemetery

Many of the early settlers of Hawkins County are buried in this cemetery, 170 yards south, including Joseph Rogers, the founder of Rogersville, and hi... [click for more]

Rogers Tavern

Joseph Rogers' Tavern included the Old Tavern and Big Tavern Houses. Located 45 yards to the south, the Old Tavern House was built between 1790 and 18... [click for more]

Rogersville Historic District

Rogersville Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Spencer County, Franklin - Hawkins County,

This county was both Spencer County, State of Franklin and Hawkins County, State of North Carolina, 1786-1788, and became Hawkins County, Tennessee in... [click for more]

Thomas Gibbons

Born in Surry (now Sussex) Co., Virginia, in 1734, he settled here in 1778, having been forcibly ejected from a homestead about 12 miles east by one R... [click for more]