Kingston, Tennessee
Videos
Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville. As of the 2020 census, Kingston had a population of 5,953. It
Kingston
Building in Kingston used briefly as Tennessee's state capitol in 1807, photographed in 1889
The Kingston power plant
The Old Courthouse in Kingston, built in the 1850s
Fort Southwest Point
Videos
Fort Southwest Point was a federal frontier outpost at what is now Kingston, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. Constructed in 1797 and garrisoned by federal soldiers until 1811, the fort s
Kingston, Tennessee
…of 5,953. It is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. Kingston is adjacent to Watts Bar Lake. Kingston has its roots in Fort Southwest Point, which was built just south of present-day Kingston in 1792. At the time, Southwest Point was on the fringe of the legal settlement area for Euro-Americans…
Fort Southwest Point
The Clinch River, viewed from the East Gate
The main gatehouse
Palisade wall