Kingston, Tennessee
N 35° 52.330 W 084° 30.961
16S E 724258 N 3972619
Kingston, Tennessee
Waymark Code: WM2CG9
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2007
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Kingston is a city in and the county seatGR6 of Roane County, Tennessee, United States, and is adjacent to Watts Bar Lake. Kingston, with a population of 5,264 at the 2000 United States census, is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area.
On September 21, 1807, Kingston became the capital of Tennessee for one day to fulfill an agreement with the Cherokee nation, where the tribe was led to believe that if they ceded the land in and around Roane County, Kingston would become the capital of Tennessee. True to the agreement, the first session of the seventh General Assembly of the State of Tennessee convened in Kingston. At the end of the day, the Senate and the House of Representatives resolved to "...adjourn forthwith from Kingston, to meet on Wednesday the 23d inst. at eleven o'clock, A.M. at the courthouse in Knoxville."
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