Archibald Roane

Archibald Roane, a Pennsylvanian who was at Yorktown, taught at Liberty Hall Academy in Virginia before settling in Jonesborough as a lawyer. He became Tennessee's second governor in 1801. When the militia's choice of commander ended in a tie between John Sevier and Andrew Jackson, Roane cast the deciding vote for Jackson. Sevier beat him for governor in 1803, 6,780 votes to 4,923. Roane then sat on the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals until he died in 1819, and Roane County carries his name.

What the plaque says

Archibald Roane A short distance north lived Archibald Roane, Continental soldier, frontier judge and the second governor of Tennessee. He is buried in Pleasant Forest Cemetery, one-half mile south. Many other pioneer settlers are also buried here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• American Museum of Science and Energy — 10 mi
  The Oak Ridge museum that opened in 1949, when the Manhattan Project city's gates opened, in a town whose Black workers were housed in the Gamble Valley hutments.
• Blount Mansion — 14 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 15 mi
  The 1935 school in Clinton that sent twelve Black students down Foley Hill to desegregate Clinton High School in August 1956, now a museum with bronze statues of the Clinton 12.
• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 16 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Campbell's Station — steps away
• David Glasgow Farragut — steps away
• States' View — 4.6 mi
• Cavett's Station — 5.9 mi