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Washington County, Tennessee

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36historic places

—earliest paper

1777formed

133,001pop. 2020

295cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 36 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Johnson City, Jonesborough, Limestone.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Tennessee is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Washington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

19 of 36 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

36 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Aquone	Johnson City	Building	1993
Brown Farm	Jonesborough	Building	2014
Broyles, Adam Alexander, House	Limestone	Building	2011
Broylesville Historic District	Washington	District	1985
Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad Station and Depot	Johnson City	Building	2008
Cooper, Isaac, House	Limestone	Building	1984
DeVault Tavern	Jonesboro	Building	1973
DeVault, Valentine, House	Johnson City	Building	1977
Dungan's Mill and Stone House	Johnson City	Building	1973
Embree House	Telford	Building	1978
Gillespie, Col. George, House	Limestone	Building	1977
Hammer, Isaac, House	Johnson City	Building	1976
Hoss, Henry, House	Jonesboro	Building	1982
Johnson City Commercial Historic District	Johnson City	District	2003
Johnson City Country Club	Johnson City	District	2011
Johnson City Postal Savings Bank and Post Office	Johnson City	Building	2020
Johnson City Warehouse and Commerce Historic District	Johnson City	District	2003
Johnson City Warehouse and Commerce Historic District (Boundary Decrease)	Johnson City	Building	2014
Jonesborough Historic District	Jonesborough	District	1969
Jonesborough Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Jonesborough	District	2019
Kitzmiller, Martin, House	Gray	Building	1985
Knob Creek Historic District	Johnson City	District	1986
Montrose Court Apartments	Johnson City	Building	1980
Mountain Branch, National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers NHL	Johnson City (Mountain Home P.O)	District	2011
Plum Grove Archaeological Site	Jonesboro	Site	1985
Range, Peter, Stone House	Johnson City	Building	1983
Robin's Roost	Johnson City	Building	1976
Salem Presbyterian Church (Additional Documentation)	Washington College	Building	1992
Shelbridge	Johnson City	Building	1995
St. Paul AME Zion Church	Johnson City	Building	2001
Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground (Additional Documentation)	Jonesborough	Building	1975
Telford, Thomas, House	Limestone	Building	1982
Thankful Baptist Church	Johnson City	Building	2001
Tipton-Haynes House	Johnson City	Building	1970
Tree Streets Historic District	Johnson City	District	1996
Washington College Historic District	Washington College	District	2002

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1777 (1777-12-24) from Washington District.

WASHINGTON created by North Carolina from Washington District and non-county area; included all of present Tenn. and part of North Carolina. Residents of North Holston and Carters Valley settlements still considered themselves part of WASHINGTON (Va.).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Washington County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,872	6,379	9,557	11,751	14,829	16,181	22,604	34,052	51,631	59,971	64,832	88,755	107,198	133,001

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site	Park unit	33.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

295 cemeteries and 14 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 295 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Africa Cemetery	36.42315	-82.4332
Allegheny Cemetery	36.36482	-82.61904
Archer Cemetery	36.32482	-82.5007
Arrington Cemetery	36.14621	-82.57542
Asbury Cemetery	36.17065	-82.58736
Austin Cemetery	36.35177	-82.34069
Babbs - Smith Cemetery	36.29003	-82.45888
Bacon Cemetery	36.38287	-82.54737
Bacon Cemetery	36.39676	-82.51514
Bacon Cemetery	36.38732	-82.57626
Bacon Cemetery	36.39121	-82.56042
Bailey Cemetery	36.2151	-82.51181
Bailey Cemetery	36.32454	-82.6007
Baines Cemetery	36.41065	-82.61737
Bales Cemetery	36.30454	-82.48181
Barne Cemetery	36.36399	-82.36153
Barnett - Tiner Hill Cemetery	36.29959	-82.37959
Barron Cemetery	36.23982	-82.53931
Barton Cemetery	36.30427	-82.3993
Bayless Cemetery	36.30121	-82.40236
Beals Cemetery	36.1801	-82.44375
Beard Cemetery	36.34815	-82.44597
Bell Cemetery	36.15232	-82.53292
Berea Cemetery	36.28177	-82.36514
Berry Cemetery	36.21732	-82.49625
Bethany Cemetery	36.38649	-82.53653
Bethesda Cemetery	36.21621	-82.46764
Blair Cemetery	36.21704	-82.45069
Boone Creek Cemetery	36.39593	-82.40542
Boones Creek Cemetery	36.37982	-82.41125
Boones Creek Christian Church Cemetery	36.37149	-82.42792
Boring Cemetery	36.41899	-82.39708
Bowers Cemetery	36.38732	-82.41319
Bowman Cemetery	36.39954	-82.40958
Bowman Cemetery	36.29676	-82.52959
Bowman Cemetery	36.31182	-82.33233
Bowmantown-Philadelphia Cemetery	36.29982	-82.57348
Brown Cemetery	36.25426	-82.54181
Brown Cemetery	36.35093	-82.63182
Brown Cemetery	36.29409	-82.35931
Brown Cemetery	36.21121	-82.49431
Broyles Cemetery	36.21288	-82.60098
Buffalo Ridge Cemetery	36.39204	-82.46764
Bumpus Cove Cemetery	36.16704	-82.47514
Carr - Reeves Cemetery	36.33247	-82.38829
Carr Cemetery	36.38676	-82.31152
Carr Cemetery	36.29371	-82.4093
Carr Cemetery	36.29343	-82.39819
Carr-Crumley-Krouse Cemetery	36.36232	-82.3993
Carruthers Cemetery	36.32781	-82.36404
Carter Cemetery	36.31732	-82.48209
Chase Cemetery	36.42898	-82.51014
Cherokee Cemetery	36.23538	-82.46514
Cherokee Cemetery	36.27593	-82.38014
Cherry Hill Cemetery	36.33371	-82.63293
Clark Cemetery	36.16121	-82.55986
Clark Cemetery	36.16899	-82.53959
Clark Cemetery	36.31621	-82.38042
College Heights Cemetery	36.29675	-82.36519
Conklin Cemetery	36.4301	-82.52514
Copas Cemetery	36.42648	-82.5182
Cox Cemetery	36.41176	-82.56042
Crouch Cemetery	36.40787	-82.39792
Crumley Cemetery	36.35565	-82.36958
De Vault Cemetery	36.29565	-82.53931
Deacon Cemetery	36.33704	-82.44708
Devault Cemetery	36.39093	-82.35069
Douglas Cemetery	36.41426	-82.50348
Dove Cemetery	36.25871	-82.44653
Dry Creek Cemetery	36.21704	-82.41569
Duncan Cemetery	36.39482	-82.37291
Dungan Cemetery	36.38482	-82.31291
Dunham Cemetery	36.3826	-82.5557
Earnests Chapel Cemetery	36.24482	-82.56459
Eastern Star Cemetery	36.4326	-82.52403
Eden - Greenwood Cemetery	36.26178	-82.42707
Edwards Cemetery	36.33195	-82.31744
Elliott Cemetery	36.27343	-82.40875
Estes Cemetery	36.28454	-82.46125
Fairview Cemetery	36.31232	-82.53264

Historical populated places — 14 of 14

Name	Lat	Lon
Brownsboro	36.18483	-82.6057
Buffalo Ridge	36.38399	-82.46515
Christie	36.3351	-82.61237
Clarkson	36.16816	-82.54014
Dove	36.25844	-82.44709
Hacker	36.22983	-82.5482
Kitzmiller	36.4301	-82.48765
Luke	36.35983	-82.56654
Matuta	36.2576	-82.59571
Maucks	36.13566	-82.59848
Mayflower	36.31816	-82.54515
Nanatlugunyi	36.29177	-82.47487
Nolichucky	36.15844	-82.5807
Wheelocktown	36.39733	-82.5432

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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