Amis House - Rogersville, TN - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

From the secondary website below (maintained by the current homeowners), we learn "Amis was granted a thousand acres in Sullivan Co. NC.(later Hawkins Co., Tn.) In 1780 he built a fort at Big Creek on the Great Indian Warpath Trail (later Old Stage Road) with the assistance of friend and fellow settler Scots-Irish John Carter. Not far from this fort in the same year, about one and one-half miles above present day Rogersville, on a high hill that overlooked the Holston River valley, Capt. Amis commissioned Thomas Harlan, architect and stone mason from the Pennsylvania Dutch country, to build him a home 46 feet long, and 16 feet wide, one and one-half stories high. The 18 inch walls of fieldstone formerly had rifle ports instead of windows in the upper half story."

Street address: 677 Burem Road Rogersville, TN USA 37857 County / Borough / Parish: Hawkins County Year listed: 1973 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1750-1799, 1825-1849 Historic function: Domestic Current function: Domestic Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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