Stony Point is a historic house in

Surgoinsville, Tennessee Surgoinsville is a town in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States. The 2010 census showed a population of 1,801, up from 1,882 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Kingsport– Bristol (TN)– Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Are ...

, U.S.. It was built prior to 1791 on a land grant given to William Armstrong in the 1780s. With It is "one of the earliest brick dwellings built in the state" of Tennessee. Armstrong lived here with his wife, née Elizabeth Galbraith, and their children. In 1797, Armstrong invited French King

Louis Philippe Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary War ...

to his estate. By the 1970s, the house had remained in the Armstrong family. The house 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 April 26, 1973.

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National Register of Historic Places in Hawkins County, Tennessee Houses completed in 1790 {{HawkinsCountyTN-NRHP-stub