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In 1986, the News-Sentinel became a morning paper, with the other paper in Knoxville, the Knoxville Journal, becoming an evening paper. The Journal ceased publication as a daily in 1991, when the joint operating agreement between the two papers expired. In 2002, the paper dropped the hyphen from its name to become the Knoxville News Sentinel.
James Alexander Fowler (1863–1955), U.S. Assistant Attorney General and Knoxville mayor; Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), women's suffragist; Lucius F. C. Garvin (1841–1922), former governor of Rhode Island; Sion Harris (1811–1854), member of the Liberian legislature; Bill Haslam (b. 1958), Governor of Tennessee, former mayor of Knoxville
Captain William Rule launched The Knoxville Daily Journal on February 26, 1885, after previous experience in the Tennessee newspaper industry. The paper claimed a history reaching to the Whig in Elizabethton , where Rule worked for William G. Brownlow ; the two men had also launched the Chronicle and Whig in the 1870s but sold it in 1882. [ 2 ]
William Neil Clabo (November 18, 1952 – July 10, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a punter for three season with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) from 1975 to 1977. [1]
Old Gray Cemetery is the second-oldest cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.Established in 1850, the 13.47-acre (5.45 ha) cemetery contains the graves of some of Knoxville's most influential citizens, ranging from politicians and soldiers, to artists and activists.
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States, on the Tennessee River. [15] As of the 2020 United States census , Knoxville's population was 190,740, [ 16 ] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis . [ 17 ]
The Knoxville MSA is the chief component of the larger Knoxville–Morristown-Sevierville, TN Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which also includes the Morristown metropolitan area (Hamblen, Jefferson, and Grainger counties) and the Sevierville (Sevier County), LaFollette (Campbell County), Harriman (Roane County), and Newport (Cocke County ...
Channel 6 was East Tennessee's first television station, signing on the air at 8 p.m. on October 1, 1953, as WROL-TV. The race to be the first television station in the eastern part of the state was won by WROL-TV when the 300-foot (91 m) tower of WJHL-TV in Johnson City (ironically, now a sister station to the Knoxville station) collapsed a few months earlier.