Amis House - Rogersville, TN
Posted by: vhasler
N 36° 25.162 W 082° 57.325
17S E 324690 N 4032240
Captain Thomas Amis built this home on land granted by North Carolina for service in the Revolutionary War
Waymark Code: WM6MBH
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 06/20/2009
Views: 2
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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