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The railroad's impact on Knoxville's development was swift. The city's population more than doubled from just over 2,000 in 1850 to over 4,000 in 1860. [6] After the war, the city's wholesaling sector expanded rapidly. By the early 1870s, the Knoxville wholesaling firm, Cowan, McClung and Company, was Tennessee's most profitable company. [7]
The buildings were listed for their architecture and their role in Knoxville's late-19th and early-20th century wholesaling industry. [1] The district's original 1973 listing included the warehouses on the north side of West Jackson Avenue (i.e., 103, 121-123, 125-127, and 129-131) and Sullivan's Saloon (100 East Jackson).
Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad: SOU: 1853 1871 Coal Creek and New River Railroad: Knoxville, La Follette and Jellico Railroad: L&N: 1902 1904 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Knoxville and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1871 1903 Southern Railway: Knoxville, Sevierville and Eastern Railway: 1907 1921 Knoxville and Carolina Railroad: Knoxville Southern ...
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad (ETV&G) was a rail transport system that operated in the southeastern United States during the late 19th century. Created with the consolidation of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad in 1869, the ETV&G played an important role in connecting East Tennessee and other isolated parts of Southern ...
Knoxville and Holston River Railroad MP15AC #2002 leads a train through Tyson Park near downtown Knoxville. Gulf & Ohio Railways was founded by Pete Claussen concurrent with the start up of the first G&O shortline, the Mississippi Delta Railroad in 1985.
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 To which is added an appendix: containing a number of historical documents.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.
The Tennessee Central Railway was founded in 1884 as the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad by Alexander S. Crawford. It was an attempt to open up a rail route from the coal and minerals of East Tennessee to the markets of the midstate , a service which many businessmen felt was not being adequately provided by the existing railroad companies.
The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific is operated by Norfolk Southern as part of the Alabama Division. Between Cincinnati and Somerset the line is under control of the North End Dispatcher, Knoxville, Tennessee. Somerset to Hixson, Tennessee, is dispatched by the South End Dispatcher, Knoxville. The CT (Chattanooga Terminal) Dispatcher ...