The two men brought a printing press over the mountains from North Carolina and established The Knoxville Gazette in a log cabin on the Hawkins Courthouse Town Square.
A year later, in October 1792, the publication was moved to Knoxville, the home of Blount's newly established territorial capital.
Specialty publications emerged during these early days, including the Rail-Road Advocate, the Calvinistic Magazine and the Holston Watchman.
The Review was the first hot metal newspaper in Tennessee and was also the last such letter press, weekly paper when the conversion to "cold type" was made in July 1981.
In October of that same year, Ellen Addison was named publisher and continued in that role until 1997 when she assumed the helm at the Tri-Cities Business Journal.
It is a part of a network of similar sites in the Tri-Cities, Greeneville, Morristown, Newport, Lenoir City, Sweetwater, Athens and other communities throughout Northeast Tennessee.
Publisher Bill Parsons took the helm in January 2001, bringing with him what has become The Rogersville Review's premier special edition, the annual "A Place Called Home" section, which has received state and national awards, along with accolades throughout the community.
"A Place Called Home" has been recognized by the Tennessee Press Association as the best special edition in the state for several years for both editorial and advertising content.
In 2002, The Review received its highest honor in its 120-plus-year history, the Tennessee Press Association's General Excellence Award for community newspapers.