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The Turkey Creek development project started in 1995 when a group of investors and developers who called themselves Turkey Creek Land Partners led by John Turley and Kerry Sprouse paid $7 million to buy 410 acres (170 ha) of undeveloped land south of the interstate highway.
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 To which is added an appendix: containing a number of historical documents.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.
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 ...
James Alexander Fowler (1863–1955), U.S. Assistant Attorney General and Knoxville mayor; Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), women's suffragist; Lucius F. C. Garvin (1841–1922), former governor of Rhode Island; Sion Harris (1811–1854), member of the Liberian legislature; Bill Haslam (b. 1958), Governor of Tennessee, former mayor of Knoxville
As of the census [26] of 2000, there were 382,032 people, 157,872 households, and 100,722 families residing in the county. The population density was 751 people per square mile (290 people/km 2). There were 171,439 housing units at an average density of 337 units per square mile (130/km 2).
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West Knoxville's most recent major shopping complex, the 358-acre (145 ha) Turkey Creek, opened in 2002. [8] Throughout the 20th century, West Knoxville was settled by affluent Knoxvillians and newcomers to the Knoxville area, many of whom held more liberal political views than residents in other parts of the city. [8]
Knoxville's first major annexation following the Civil War came in 1869, when it annexed the city of East Knoxville, an area east of First Creek that had incorporated in 1856. [ 42 ] : 137–8 In 1883, Knoxville annexed Mechanicsville , which had developed just northwest of the city as a village for Knoxville Iron Company and other factory workers.