Rose Glen was established in the late 1840s by Dr. Robert Hatton Hodsden ( 1806 &ndash; 1864 ) , a Sevier County physician and politician who by 1860 had become one of the county 's wealthiest individuals . Hodsden was an attending physician for the Cherokee Removal ( commonly called the Trail of Tears ) in the late 1830s , and between 1841 and 1845 , he represented Blount County in the Tennessee state legislature . Although he was a slave owner , Hodsden was staunchly pro-Union during the American Civil War , and was a member of the Sevier County delegation at the East Tennessee Convention in Greeneville in 1861 . Rose Glen is still owned and maintained by Hodsden 's descendants
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Rose Glen (Sevierville, Tennessee)