Rural Mount is a historic mansion in

Morristown, Tennessee Morristown is a city in and the county seat of Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. Morristown also extends into Jefferson County on the western and southern ends. The city's population was recorded to be 30,431 at the 2020 United States cen ...

, U.S.. It was built with

ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...

stones circa 1799 by frontiersman Alexander Outlaw for his son-in-law, Joseph Hamilton. It was designed in the Federal architectural style. It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

since July 30, 1975.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Federal architecture in Tennessee Houses completed in 1799 Buildings and structures in Hamblen County, Tennessee 1799 establishments in Tennessee Morristown, Tennessee {{HamblenCountyTN-NRHP-stub