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.

                                                             ARCHIVES RE-OPENING
          The department’s Reading Room will reopen to the public on Monday, June 1^st, 2020. Regular public hours go back into effect: Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays from 8:00 a.m.-12 noon and Tuesday-Thursdays from 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.  Initially, in order to observe social distancing guidelines, only four researchers may use the Reading Room at the same time.

• Volunteer Spotlight: Betty Jane Hylton
• The guide to the Circuit Court Case Files – 1809 – 1870 has been uploaded.