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Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976). Folmsbee, Stanley J. and Lucile Deaderick. The Founding of Knoxville. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1941.) History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together With an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of From Twenty-Five ...
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]
1896 - Flag of Knoxville, Tennessee is designed; 1897 "Million Dollar Fire" destroys part of Gay Street. [6] Market House rebuilt on Market Square. [4] North Knoxville (modern Old North Knoxville) becomes part of city; 1898 West Knoxville (modern Fort Sanders) becomes part of city. Gay Street Bridge constructed.
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]
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.
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.
Fountain City Lake. Fountain City is a neighborhood in northern Knoxville, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Although not a census-designated place (it is grouped with Knoxville for census-purposes), the populations of the two ZIP codes that serve Fountain City— 37918 and 37912— were 36,815 and 18,695, respectively, as of the 2000 U.S. census.
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]