Kingston, Tennessee Kingston, Tennessee Location of Kingston, Tennessee Location of Kingston, Tennessee State Tennessee Kingston is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Roane County, Tennessee, United States.
It had a populace of 5,934 at the 2010 United States census, and is encompassed in the Harriman Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Kingston has its roots in Fort Southwest Point, which was assembled just south of present-day Kingston in 1792.
The town/city of Kingston was established on October 23, 1799, as part of an accomplishment to partition Knox County (the initial accomplishment to form a separate county failed, but succeeded two years later). Kingston was titled after Major Robert King, an officer at Fort Southwest Point in the 1790s. Building in Kingston used briefly as Tennessee's state capitol in 1807, photographed in 1889 On September 21, 1807, Kingston was Tennessee's state capital for one day.
The Tennessee General Assembly convened in Kingston that day due to an agreement with the Cherokee, who had been told that if the Cherokee Nation ceded the territory that is now Roane County, Kingston would turn into the capital of Tennessee.
At the outset of the Civil War in 1861, Kingston was chose as the site of the third session of the East Tennessee Convention, which attempted to form a new, Union-aligned state in East Tennessee.
In 1955, the Tennessee Valley Authority instead of work on the Kingston Fossil Plant, which at the time was the world's biggest coal-burning power plant.
Kingston is positioned at 35 52 20 N 84 31 0 W.
Kingston is positioned near the junction of U.S.
Route 70, which joins Kingston with Knoxville to the east and Nashville to the west, and State Route 58, which joins Kingston with Oak Ridge to the northeast and Chattanooga to the south.
Interstate 40 passes through Kingston, running roughly alongside to U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.8 square miles (20.3 km2), of which 7.1 square miles (18.4 km2) is territory and 0.73 square miles (1.9 km2), or 9.56%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.5% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 20.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $34,071, and the median income for a family was $44,979.
Tennessee Blue Book, 2005-2006, pp.
Samuel Cole Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540 1800 (Johnson City, Tenn.: The Watauga Press, 1928), 500.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Kingston city, Tennessee".
Snyder Roberts, "Thumbnail Sketch of Early Roane County History," 1969.
Roane County Heritage Commission, "History of Roane County," 1997.
Oliver Perry Temple, "The Knoxville-Greeneville Convention of 1861," East Tennessee and the Civil War (R.
David Madden, "Unionist Resistance to Confederate Occupation: The Bridge Burners of East Tennessee," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vols.
"TVA: Kingston Fossil Plant." "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
Media related to Kingston, Tennessee at Wikimedia Commons City of Kingston official website Municipalities and communities of Roane County, Tennessee, United States County seat: Kingston This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Cities in Tennessee - Cities in Roane County, Tennessee - Former state capitals in the United States - County seats in Tennessee - Populated places on the Tennessee River
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