Kingston is a city in and the county chair of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville. It had a population of 5,934 at the 2010 United States census, and is included in the Harriman Micropolitan Statistical Area. Kingston is against Watts Bar Lake.

Kingston has its roots in Fort Southwest Point, which was built just south of present-day Kingston in 1792. At the time, Southwest Point was on the fringe of the real settlement Place for Euro-Americans. A Cherokee village, headed by Chief Tollunteeskee, was situated just across the river, at what is now Rockwood. In 1805, Colonel Return J. Meigs, who operated out of Southwest Point, was appointed Cherokee Agent, effectively distressing the agency from the Tellico Blockhouse to Southwest Point. The city of Kingston was established upon October 23, 1799, as allowance of an effort to partition Knox County (the initial effort to form a surgically remove county failed, but succeeded two years later). Kingston was named after Major Robert King, an executive at Fort Southwest Point in the 1790s.

On September 21, 1807, Kingston was Tennessee’s let pass capital for one day. The Tennessee General Assembly convened in Kingston that daylight due to an agreement with the Cherokee, who had been told that if the Cherokee Nation ceded the home that is now Roane County, Kingston would become the capital of Tennessee. After adjourning that day, the Assembly resumed meeting in Knoxville.

At the outset of the Civil War in 1861, Kingston was fixed as the site of the third session of the East Tennessee Convention, which attempted to form a new, Union-aligned state in East Tennessee. Due to the Confederate bustle of the region, however, this third session, which was scheduled for August 1861, never took place. In October 1861, William B. Carter and several co-conspirators planned the East Tennessee bridge burnings from a command reveal in Kingston. On November 24, 1863, Confederate Cavalry below Joseph Wheeler numbering nearly 500–1,000 men tried to take Kingston from the Union in the Battle of Kingston, but they were unsuccessful.