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Knoxville was home to a small Catholic congregation by the early 1800s. Father Stephen Badin traveled to the city on several occasions to visit this congregation. [ 1 ] Railroad construction in the late 1840s and early 1850s brought scores of Irish immigrant laborers to the city, considerably boosting the congregation's numbers. [ 2 ]
The Knoxville MSA is the chief component of the larger Knoxville–Morristown-Sevierville, TN Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which also includes the Morristown metropolitan area (Hamblen, Jefferson, and Grainger counties) and the Sevierville (Sevier County), LaFollette (Campbell County), Harriman (Roane County), and Newport (Cocke County ...
A gymnasium, new classrooms in the school and a school library were built during this time. St. John Neumann Parish was established in Farragut and took some parishioners from Sacred Heart. Further expansion of the physical plant was accomplished during the Rev. Robert Hofstetter's pastorate from 1981 until 1987.
Gay Street is a street in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, that traverses the heart of the city's downtown area.Since its development in the 1790s, Gay Street has served as the city's principal financial and commercial thoroughfare, and has played a primary role in the city's historical and cultural development. [2]
Lonsdale is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located northwest of the city's downtown area.Established in the late-19th century as a land development project, [1] Lonsdale incorporated as a separate city in 1907, and was annexed by Knoxville in 1917. [2]
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. [9] It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area.
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]
South Knoxville is the section of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, that lies south of the Tennessee River. It is concentrated along Chapman Highway ( US 441 ), Alcoa Highway ( US 129 ), Maryville Pike ( SR 33 ), Sevierville Pike, and adjacent roads, and includes the neighborhoods of Lindbergh Forest , Island Home Park , Old Sevier, South ...