1800- Alexander Campbell House- Riverdale Plantation

Location: 6920 Thorngrove Pike, Knoxville

The Alexander Campbell House, also known as Riverdale Plantation, was built in 1800 and subsequently expanded in the early 1900s. On the website for the Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, there is a document called the East County Sector Plan. This house is discussed on page 23:

“Alexander Campbell House (Riverdale Plantation):

Originally built in 1800, this two-story timber frame house was expanded around 1905 and is associated with the earliest settlement along the French Broad River. An original settler in 1791, Alexander Campbell was an early settler moving along the French Broad River, staying in James White’s log house, then traveling back to Campbell’s Station in west Knox County because of an ‘Indian’ threat. By 1793, he found himself back to the French Broad River and built this large house in Riverdale to accommodate his ‘commodious’ family.”