[4] In October 1861, Union guerrilla William B. Carter organized the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy from a command post in Kingston.

[1] During the late 19th century, northern investors established two planned cities in Roane County— Cardiff and Harriman.

Cardiff, located northeast of Rockwood, was planned as a company town to support several proposed mining industries in the area.

Harriman survived, but never grew in the manner its planners had envisioned, while Cardiff failed altogether.

[7] During World War II, the federal government created the city of Oak Ridge as a planned community as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.

As a result of the Project, both the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are located in the county.

[18] Several movies have been filmed in Roane County, including Boys of Summerville, That Evening Sun and October Sky.

Roane County was the childhood home of actress Megan Fox, who lived in Kingston.

She attended elementary school, took dance classes, and was on the swim team in Roane County.

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

Thompson played Division I basketball in the Ohio Valley Conference for Tennessee Technological University.