Standing Stone State Park

Standing Stone State Park in Overton County, Tennessee, occupies 855 acres around the X-shaped Standing Stone Lake and is surrounded by the larger Standing Stone State Forest. Named for a notable stone near present-day Monterey that local tradition connected to Native Americans, the area also reflects a longer history of Native occupation, Cherokee control, and early long hunters. The park itself emerged in the 1930s through New Deal programs that relocated farmers from eroded land, restored forest, and controlled erosion in the Mill Creek basin. Later transferred to Tennessee, it became both a recreational landscape and a setting for regional traditions such as the National Rolley Hole Marbles Championship.

Hilham, Tennessee · United States