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The center displays works by regional artists such as Lloyd Branson, Adelia Armstrong Lutz, Catherine Wiley, and Joseph Knaffl. The history center contains the Knox County Archives and the Calvin M. McClung Collection of the Knox County Public Libraries. [5]
It had a collection of 4,000-6,000 books. In 1904, the library burned from a fire and was forced to move. Because the income from the building's businesses was still available after its recovery from the fire, the library was able to maintain and improve at a new site, now under the city as Lawson McGhee Library, without financial issue.
Museum founder John Rice Irwin, a descendant of the region's early settlers (his ancestor, James Rice, built the Rice Gristmill that now stands at Norris Dam State Park), [4] was born at his grandparents' farm along Bull Run Creek in Knox County, Tennessee in 1930.
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.
[19]: 78–9 Most of Knox County's farms were small (only one was larger than 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2)) and typically focused on livestock or other products that weren't labor-intensive. [19]: 78–9 The city was home to a chapter of the American Colonization Society, [31]: 34 led by St. John's Episcopal Church rector Thomas William Humes.
Knox County's population increased by 5,289 people from 2022 to 2023, growing from 495,380 people to 500,669, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Rutherford County blew Knox County out of the water.
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]
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