The Amis plantation each year hosts a Colonial Christmas gathering, along with other special events throughout the year to show how Native American Indians and early settlers eventually overcame hostilities and distrust and embraced each other as friends. Pictured here is a scene from one of the reenactments held at the site which featured direct ancestral descendants of legendary Cherokee Chief Dragging Canoe.
Jake Jacobs (left) leads a tour through the historic Thomas Amis house during a previous Colonial Christmas at Amis House.
Photos by Allison F. Goley
The Thomas Amis house decked out in traditional Colonial Christmas decor.
Photo by Allison F. Goley
Colonial Christmas participants will be dressed in traditional Colonial attire
Photos by Allison F. Goley
During an Amis House tour Wendy Jacobs reads a letter from her ancestor Thomas Amis to the crowd.
Photos by Allison F. Goley
The inside of the Amis house is decorated and ready for Christmas.
Photos Courtesy of Jake Jacobs
The inside of the Amis house is decorated in traditional Colonial Christmas style.
Photos courtesy of Jake Jacobs
The Amis plantation each year hosts a Colonial Christmas gathering, along with other special events throughout the year to show how Native American Indians and early settlers eventually overcame hostilities and distrust and embraced each other as friends. Pictured here is a scene from one of the reenactments held at the site which featured direct ancestral descendants of legendary Cherokee Chief Dragging Canoe.
The restored blacksmith’s cabin.
The beautiful and historicallly significant Amis home covered in snow and all decked out for Christmas.
ROGERSVILLE (12-21-16) — The owners of Rogersville’s historic Thomas Amis settlement raise a little money and a lot of awareness this past weekend toward saving an endangered 235 stone mill dam on the property.
Dressed in colonial attire, property owners Jake and Wendy Jacobs led visitors an hour-long tour through their home throughout the day Saturday and Sunday, which was built by Capt. Thomas Amis shortly after he arrived in 1780 about two miles south of what would later become Rogersville, TN.
