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Alexander Arthur (1846–1912), entrepreneur. Jake Butcher (1936–2017), rogue banker and gubernatorial candidate. Eldad Cicero Camp (1839–1920), coal tycoon. Ashley Capps (b. 1955), AC Entertainment founder, co-creator of Bonnaroo Music Festival [3] George Dempster (1887–1964), inventor of the Dempster-Dumpster, mayor of Knoxville.
The tallest building in Knoxville is the First Tennessee Plaza (Plaza Tower), at 27 stories, followed by the adjacent Riverview Tower, at 24 stories. The Tower at Morgan Hill (formerly the Kingston Apartments) is the third highest at 21 stories. The Sunsphere, which stands at 265 feet (81 m), is the city's fourth tallest.
47-40000. GNIS feature ID. 1648562 [12] Website. www.knoxvilletn.gov. Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States. [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 ...
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 ...
Tri-Cities, Tennessee. The Tri-Cities is the region comprising the cities of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol and the surrounding smaller towns and communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, while Bristol has a twin city of the same name in Virginia.
The Old City is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located at the northeast corner of the city's downtown area. Originally part of a raucous and vice-ridden section of town known as "The Bowery," the Old City has since been revitalized through extensive redevelopment efforts carried out during the 1980s through the present. [3]
423, 865. The Knoxville metropolitan area, commonly known as Greater Knoxville, [2] 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 ...
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.