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7 unusual facts about Roane County


Harriman High School

Harriman High School is a small, public high school located in Harriman, Tennessee, operated by the Roane County School System.

Oliver Springs High School

Oliver Springs High School (OSHS) is the Roane County high school operated by Roane County Schools that serves the city of Oliver Springs, Tennessee.

Othello, Washington

The post office was named Othello after a post office also called Othello in Roane County, Tennessee.

Roane County, Tennessee

In the years following the Civil War, Rockwood grew into a major iron and coal mining center with the establishment of the Roane Iron Company by General John T. Wilder.

The 2010 film, Get Low, starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, and Sissy Spacek, was based off the true story of a Roane County man, Felix Breazeale.

Several movies have been filmed in Roane County, including Boys of Summerville and October Sky.

Roane County, West Virginia

It was named for the jurist Spencer Roane of Virginia, born in Essex County April 4, 1762.


Martin W. Littleton

Born near Kingston in Roane County, Tennessee, he moved to Texas in 1881 with his parents, who settled in Dallas.

Pocatalico River

The Pocatalico rises in Roane County near the community of Looneyville and flows generally southwestwardly through southern Roane, northern Kanawha and southeastern Putnam Counties, past the community of Sissonville.


see also

Toxic sludge spill

Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, in Roane County, Tennessee, United States on 21 December 2008.