Historic Sites - Rocky Mount
30 Rocky Mount
- Rocky Mount, monument to Tennessee's frontier heritage.
This frontier home, built ca. 1770, was the Capitol of the Territory South of the River Ohio (the area that is now Tennessee) from 1790-1792. It was here that the pioneer Tennesseans known as "over-mountain men" stopped in route to Sycamore Shoals to rendezvous for the Battle of Kings Mountain, "turning point of the Revolutionary War." Selected in 1790 as his headquarters by Territorial Governor William Blount, this house was the capitol of the first recognized government west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is the oldest original territorial capitol still standing in the United States. Costumed interpreters give tours of the original main house, a reconstructed kitchen, and other outbuildings. The building also houses the Museum of Overmountain History.
Rocky Mount Web Site
200 Hyder Road,
Piney Flats, TN 37686
(423) 538-7396
