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TriStar Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that used to compete in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.The team competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series primarily during the early to mid 1990s, suspending racing operations in 1997 and continuing on as Tri-Star Motors, and later Pro Motor Engines, supplying engines to many NASCAR teams prior to returning to ...
The road (locally known as Covington Pike), passes over the Wolf River after its interchange with I‑40. Between here and Raleigh–Lagrange Road are numerous car dealerships; Covington Pike is best known regionally for this. SR 204 continues north into the Memphis neighborhood of Raleigh, crossing SR 15 (Stage Road) and SR 14 (Austin Peay ...
The 11-70 Motor Court, an early motel from Kingston Pike's Dixie Lee Highway period. From the 1920s until the late 1950s, Kingston Pike was known as the "Dixie Lee Highway," as it lay along a merged stretch of two cross-country auto-tourism routes—Dixie Highway (which followed US 70 through the area) and Lee Highway (which followed US 11).
I-40 east of Knoxville with the highest peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains visible. In Nashville, the segment linking 46th Avenue with I-65 opened to traffic on March 15, 1971. [147] The Memphis section from US 51 to Chelsea Avenue, including the Midtown interchange with I-240 (then I-255), opened on July 14 of that year. [148]
State Route 158 (SR 158) is a major east–west state highway in the city of Knoxville in the U.S. state of Tennessee.It runs 4.63 miles (7.45 km) from Kingston Pike (US 11/US 70) along the Tennessee River to Interstate 40.
State Route 169 (SR 169), also known as Middlebrook Pike, is a west-to-east secondary highway in Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The route is 11.7 miles (18.8 km) long. Its western terminus is in west Knox County at SR 131 (Lovell Road/Ball Camp-Byington Road). Its eastern terminus is in Knoxville at SR 62 (Western Avenue).
The Great Indian Warpath from Knoxville to Abingdon, Virginia, became a wagon road known as the Old Stage Road, and was used extensively by early Tennesseans and travelers from other states. [ 15 ] In 1911, a series of Tennessee businesspeople formed the Memphis to Bristol Highway Association to encourage the state to improve the network of ...
The Half-Century of Knoxville: Being the Address and Proceedings at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town, February 10, 1842. To which is added an appendix: containing a number of historical documents. (Printed at the Register Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1852). Isenhour, Judith Clayton. Knoxville, A Pictorial History.