Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site
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Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site, known also as Tipton-Haynes House, is a Tennessee state-owned historic site near Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City is a city in Carter, Sullivan, and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with most of the city being in Washington County...

. It includes a house originally built in 1784 by Col. John Tipton (Colonel), enlarged by later owner Haynes, and 10 other buildings, including a smokehouse
Smokehouse
A smokehouse is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.-History:...

, pigsty, loom
Loom
A loom is a device used to weave cloth. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads...

 house, still house, springhouse, log barn and corncrib. There is also the home of George Haynes, a Haynes family slave.

It is one of 17 Tennessee Historical Commission state-owned historic sites, and is operated by the Tipton-Haynes Association.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1970.

It is located at 2620 South Roan Street in what is now Johnson City.

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