Welcome to the official web site of the Grainger County Archives
The Grainger County Archives is the repository for the permanent-value
records of Grainger County Government. The Archives also serves as
the county research center for history and genealogy.
History of Grainger County
Grainger County was formed from neighboring Hawkins and Knox Counties in
1796, the same year Tennessee became a state. Many of the county's
records go back to the time before statehood, when the area was part of North Carolina and
Territory South of the River Ohio. Later the counties of Anderson,
Claiborne, Campbell, Scott, Hancock, Union, and Hamblen were formed from
parts of the original Grainger County. Grainger County was truly a
turnstile for settlers traveling north, west, or south, but many chose
in this beautiful area of East Tennessee.