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Settlers typically traveled down from southwest Virginia through Rogersville, Tennessee on the Knoxville Road before arriving at Knoxville. By 1795, what is now Kingston Pike went from James White's Fort to the western end of the county. Beyond the western end of the county, this route became known as the Nashville Road. By 1807, the Knoxville ...
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]
1933 – Tennessee Valley Authority headquartered in Knoxville. [6] 1934 – United States Post Office and Courthouse built. 1938 – Park Theatre opens. [17] 1940 – Population: 111,580. [14] 1942 – Town of Oak Ridge developed near Knoxville. [8] 1943 – Oak Ridge National Laboratory established near Knoxville. 1946 Cas Walker becomes mayor.
The society operates a museum and museum shop in the East Tennessee History Center on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. The East Tennessee Historical Society was established in 1834, 38 years after the establishment of the state of Tennessee, to record the history of the development and settlement of the area.
The North Hills Historic District is located about two miles northeast of downtown Knoxville. Interstate 40 passes just south of the district, and Broadway (U.S. Route 441) passes just to the west. Washington Pike divides the district from the Whittle Springs area to the north.
More than 130,000 tickets were sold for the shows, and Knoxville hotels were packed for the events. The Saturday concert set a tour record for the Jacksons at the time with 50,239 tickets sold.
Raven Records & Rarities started in 1985 on the Strip and moved around to different locations along Cumberland Avenue before closing in 1994. It returned roughly 14 years back, first in Bearden ...
Knoxville High School was built in 1910, its location at the corner of Fifth and Central chosen in part for its proximity to the trolley station at Emory Place. [ 2 ] With the dismantling of the trolley system in 1947 and the construction of the Magnolia Expressway (now part of I-40) in 1951, Emory Place began to decline.