About

Rogersville is one of the oldest towns in the state of Tennessee. It was settled in the early 1780’s by an Irishman named Joseph Rogers. He met and fell in love with a local girl named Mary Amis. She was the daughter of a wealthy landowner and Revolutionary War hero in Hawkins County. The land that forms the town of Rogersville was originally part of Spencer County in the state of North Carolina, then the state of Franklin, and finally Hawkins County, Tennesse in 1786.