There’s nothing like a ghost town to add a little creepiness to the autumn season, and Pressmen’s Home outside of Rogersville, Tennessee, is one of the best-kept secrets in the state. Once a bustling town, it has quickly been overrun by foliage, and you’ll find wildlife wandering the streets instead of humans nowadays. Learn more about this forgotten town below, and maybe plan a trip for yourself. This is one experience you aren’t going to be able to replicate elsewhere, folks!
Bobby Woods/GoogleMaps Pressmen’s Home is a ghost town that’s located in Hawkins County, Tennessee, just outside of the town of Rogersville. The former headquarters of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America has long been left to itself, resulting in a haunting homage to the past.
Jim Cody/GoogleMaps The headquarters was utilized from 1911 to 1967, and the once bustling area had a post office, chapel, sanitarium, trade school, a hotel, and even a retirement home.
Martha Hagedorn/Wikipedia Here you can see an old photograph of Pressmen’s Home, taken facing Hotel Pressuaina, the local hotel. This photo was taken in 1985.
Suzann Pape/GoogleMaps During its peak, Pressmen’s Home was its own town that actually provided its own electricity to residents before the rest of Hawkins County. It was in the 1960s that competing unions led the headquarter’s move in 1967, and the area quickly emptied.
Jim Cody/GoogleMaps You can still see some of the most prominent buildings from the bustling beginnings of Pressmen’s Home, including the tuberculosis sanitorium and administration building where the trade school was located.
Jim Cody/GoogleMaps Although the area has deteriorated and carries the air of a ghostly city, there’s nothing quite like visiting Tennessee’s storied past to flesh out the way the world used to be.
Bobby Woods/GoogleMaps Have you ever heard of Pressmen’s Home? Have you visited for yourself, perhaps? Make sure you leave your own experience with this Tennessee ghost town in the comments below!
What a wild and eerie place to visit. You can learn more about Pressmen’s Home either right here or here, friends.
Bobby Woods/GoogleMaps
Pressmen’s Home is a ghost town that’s located in Hawkins County, Tennessee, just outside of the town of Rogersville. The former headquarters of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America has long been left to itself, resulting in a haunting homage to the past.
Jim Cody/GoogleMaps
The headquarters was utilized from 1911 to 1967, and the once bustling area had a post office, chapel, sanitarium, trade school, a hotel, and even a retirement home.
Martha Hagedorn/Wikipedia
Here you can see an old photograph of Pressmen’s Home, taken facing Hotel Pressuaina, the local hotel. This photo was taken in 1985.
Suzann Pape/GoogleMaps
During its peak, Pressmen’s Home was its own town that actually provided its own electricity to residents before the rest of Hawkins County. It was in the 1960s that competing unions led the headquarter’s move in 1967, and the area quickly emptied.
You can still see some of the most prominent buildings from the bustling beginnings of Pressmen’s Home, including the tuberculosis sanitorium and administration building where the trade school was located.
Jim Cody/GoogleMaps
Although the area has deteriorated and carries the air of a ghostly city, there’s nothing quite like visiting Tennessee’s storied past to flesh out the way the world used to be.
Have you ever heard of Pressmen’s Home? Have you visited for yourself, perhaps? Make sure you leave your own experience with this Tennessee ghost town in the comments below!
PS: Some Of The Best Fall Colors In Tennessee Can Be Found At The Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park!
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Address: Pressman’s Home, Rogersville, TN 37857, USA
