History’s Home

The Department of Records Management and Archives preserves the oldest public records of Tennessee in the state’s oldest town, Jonesborough. Located at 103 West Main Street in a yellow-brick, former bank built in 1915, the archive houses records to aid in researching family, local, and regional history. 

New to our website


**America 250**
Read about Moses Crawford and his trial for Treason during the Revolutionary War.
Moses Crawford Treason Transcription


**America 250**
The February installment of our Early Landowners of Northeast Tennessee is here!  This is a largely unknown landowner, but he was very important to the history of Jonesborough, Tennessee.  His name is Jesse Walton.  Have you heard of him?  Click on the link to learn more!  Jesse Walton, Founder of Jonesborough


**America 250**
Click here to check out Cassimore May, an early landowner in the Dry Creek area!


Celebrate the United States Semiquincentennial with us!
We will be posting our projects related to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on our Friends Facebook page and on our website under the America 250 tab.