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

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*NEW* A will from 1803 Sullivan County, written by John Cawood, an early settler near the Holston River.

Read Part 3 of Archives Volunteer Jeff Jernigan’s America 250 Article!
America 250

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Revolutionary War Transcription 1812. Phipps, Isaah, affidavit concerning his health and military service

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NEW! Jonathan Jackson, A Patriot with Washington
(Early Landowner of Northeast Tennessee)

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