Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville. It had a population of 5,934 at the 2010 United States census, and is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. Kingston is adjacent to Watts Bar Lake.
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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
Roane County is a county of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,404. Its county seat is Kingston. Roane County is included in the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Roane County Courthouse in Kingston
K-25, site of uranium enrichment for the "Little Boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Walden Ridge, with lower Roane County on the right
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