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East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976) James A. Burran (1979), "Labor Conflict in Urban Appalachia: The Knoxville Streetcar Strike of 1919", Tennessee Historical Quarterly , 38 (1): 62– 78, JSTOR 42625936
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]
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]
The McClung Warehouses site along West Jackson Avenue, where buildings were destroyed by fires in 2007 and 2014, is one of Knoxville's next big priorities for redevelopment. The city, which owns ...
National Register of Historic Places in Knoxville, Tennessee (87 P) Pages in category "History of Knoxville, Tennessee" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Knoxville obtained a 6.4 quality of life score and an overall score of 6.5. The Scruffy City also ranked at No. 57 in "Best Places to Retire." The city outranked both Nashville and Memphis, coming ...
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Knoxville, meanwhile, was ranked No. 20, with its population growing 4.01% between 2017 and 2022, and with a "typical" home value of $324,383 (the median sale price in October was $335,000 ...