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Knoxville was the location of Sergei Rachmaninoff's final concert in 1943, performed at Alumni Memorial Auditorium at the University of Tennessee. [126] Knoxville's underground music scene is rooted with the promotion by AC Entertainment around 1979. [127] AC Entertainment, a local entertainment group, sought to expand the city's scene. [128]
Website. knoxcounty.org. Knox County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 478,971, [ 3 ] making it the third-most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Knoxville, [ 4 ] which is the third-most populous city in Tennessee. Knox County is included in the Knoxville metropolitan area.
The History of Knoxville, Tennessee, began with the establishment of James White's Fort on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in 1786. [1] The fort was chosen as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and the city, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was platted the following year. [1] Knoxville became the first capital of the State of ...
Knoxville, Tennessee, the most populous metropolitan area in the valley, and the 2nd largest city proper after Huntsville. It is located where the Tennessee River begins at the confluence of the Holston and the French Broad Rivers.
The University of Tennessee Space Institute, located in Tullahoma, TN, is an extension of the Knoxville campus supporting research and graduate studies in aerospace engineering and related fields. The Space Institute is home to various supersonic wind tunnels used by the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering.
423, 865. The Knoxville metropolitan area, commonly known as Greater Knoxville, [3] is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) centered on Knoxville, Tennessee, the third largest city in Tennessee and the largest city in East Tennessee. It is the third largest metropolitan area in Tennessee. In 2020, the Knoxville metro area (the MSA as defined ...
Neyland Stadium (/ ˈ n iː l ə n d / NEE-lənd) [3] is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several National Football League (NFL) exhibition games.
East Tennessee's major landforms. East Tennessee is located within three major geological divisions of the Appalachian Mountains: the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border with North Carolina in the east; the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (usually called the "Great Appalachian Valley" or "Tennessee Valley" [a]) in the center; and the Cumberland Plateau in the west, part of which is in Middle ...