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The French Broad-Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee. (Knox County Historical Committee; East Tennessee Historical Society, 1946). The Future of Knoxville's Past: Historic and Architectural Resources in Knoxville, Tennessee (Knoxville Historic Zoning Commission, October, 2006)
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]
1933 – Tennessee Valley Authority headquartered in Knoxville. [6] 1934 – United States Post Office and Courthouse built. 1938 – Park Theatre opens. [17] 1940 – Population: 111,580. [14] 1942 – Town of Oak Ridge developed near Knoxville. [8] 1943 – Oak Ridge National Laboratory established near Knoxville. 1946 Cas Walker becomes mayor.
Hub Knoxville will be "the biggest student housing project in Knoxville's history," Joe Gatto, Core Spaces' managing director of student housing acquisitions, said in a written response to Knox News.
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 James Park House is a historic house located at 422 West Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.The house's foundation was built by Governor John Sevier in the 1790s, and the house itself was built by Knoxville merchant and mayor, James Park (1770–1853), in 1812, making it the second-oldest building in Downtown Knoxville after Blount Mansion. [1]
The North Hills Historic District is located about two miles northeast of downtown Knoxville. Interstate 40 passes just south of the district, and Broadway (U.S. Route 441) passes just to the west. Washington Pike divides the district from the Whittle Springs area to the north.
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