http://www.metropulse.com/news/columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knox/?partner=RSSMetroPulse Stories: Ask Doc Knox by Dr. Z. Heraclitus Knoxen-uscolumns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxhttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2013/may/01/how-did-knox-countys-bluegrass-community-get-its-n/?partner=RSSBermuda, Hercules, Virtue, Mabel, Kangaroo: those were all rural communities in Knox County, 125 years ago. How were they named? Search me. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 01 May 2013 14:22:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25973-734989columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNHow Did Knox County's Bluegrass Community Get its Name?MetroPulsehow-did-knox-countys-bluegrass-community-get-its-nurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25973-734989Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2013/feb/20/lonsdale-riddle-whats-all-those-streets-named-afte/?partner=RSSStreet names are a murky subject. The developers or city officials who choose street names aren’t obliged to explain the process of nomenclature in the public record at the time, and rarely volunteer to do so. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:54:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25703-734919columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNThe Lonsdale Riddle: What's With All Those Streets Named After Northern States?MetroPulselonsdale-riddle-whats-all-those-streets-named-afteurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25703-734919Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/dec/19/infamous-mcclung-warehouses/?partner=RSSSo who's the McClung behind the now burned-out McClung Warehouses? editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:42:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25480-734856columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNThe Infamous McClung WarehousesMetroPulseinfamous-mcclung-warehousesurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25480-734856Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/nov/14/empty-antebellum-one-oldest-houses-west-knoxville/?partner=RSSThe house at 9320 Kingston Pike is indeed antebellum. It is in fact one of the oldest houses in West Knoxville. Formally known as the Walker-Sherrill House (for those with more breath and better memory for names, the Kennedy-Baker-Walker-Sherrill House), it was built around 1849, the year many locals took off down Kingston Pike headed for the gold fields of California, some of them never to return. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:15:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25337-734821columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNEmpty Antebellum: One of the Oldest Houses in West Knoxville May be Redeveloped SoonMetroPulseempty-antebellum-one-oldest-houses-west-knoxvilleurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25337-734821Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/oct/10/knoxvilles-mysteriously-missing-streets/?partner=RSSDear Doc Knox: We have 11th through 22nd Streets in Fort Sanders, and I remember 10th Street before the World’s Fair. But were there ever First through Ninth Streets? editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:42:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25184-734786columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNKnoxville’s Mysteriously Missing StreetsMetroPulseknoxvilles-mysteriously-missing-streetsurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25184-734786Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/sep/12/baseball-town-knoxville-once-leader-newfangled-com/?partner=RSSThe world may have forgotten—football-happy Tennessee certainly has—but Knoxville played a role in the history of Southern baseball. For at least 60 years, baseball was Knoxville’s favorite spectator sport. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:34:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25057-734758columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNBaseball Town: Knoxville Once a Leader in the Newfangled CompetitionMetroPulsebaseball-town-knoxville-once-leader-newfangled-comurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-25057-734758Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/may/23/long-ago-fisticuffs-recall-some-interesting-local/?partner=RSSDear Dr. Knox: I cannot find a decent biography of John Williams, Jr. (1818-1881), the son of Colonel John Williams. Can you help? editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 23 May 2012 19:18:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-24658-734646columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNLong-Ago Fisticuffs Recall Some Interesting Local CharactersMetroPulselong-ago-fisticuffs-recall-some-interesting-localurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-24658-734646Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/mar/28/recalling-short-career-early-country-music-singer/?partner=RSSBefore Nashville had its first recording studio, before Roy Acuff learned to play fiddle, before the landmark Bristol recordings, there was George Reneau, of Knoxville, Tenn. He was making records, and selling them, as one of America’s first professional country musicians. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:17:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-24420-734590columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNRecalling the Short Career of Early Country Music Singer George ReneauMetroPulserecalling-short-career-early-country-music-singerurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-24420-734590Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/feb/01/wading-knoxvilles-slag-heaps-and-forgotten-fens/?partner=RSSTwo centuries ago, the block of Gay northeast of the intersection of Gay and Union offered a dropoff way down toward First Creek’s floodplain. The bank was so steep it was considered impossible to develop commercially by the architecture and resources of the day, and whether by city permission or not, citizens began using it as a dump. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:09:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-24209-734534columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNWading Into Knoxville’s Slag Heaps and Forgotten FensMetroPulsewading-knoxvilles-slag-heaps-and-forgotten-fensurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-24209-734534Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/nov/16/downtowns-homegrown-revival/?partner=RSSQuestion: A downtown we first experienced as one of the most lifeless had turned into a great little city. It begs the question, have “native” attitudes changed? Or did it take an influx of non-natives to create what’s becoming a great little gem? editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:47:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23916-734457columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNDowntown's Homegrown RevivalMetroPulsedowntowns-homegrown-revivalurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23916-734457Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/aug/31/exploring-wonder-house/?partner=RSSPeggy: "There is an old huge skeleton of a wooden building in the Rocky Hill community on Northshore Drive that is situated on a hill up in the woods. It is on Currier Lane, across from Roosters. It has been there for years and nobody that I know seems to know what it is or was. Any idea?" Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:52:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23545-734380columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxStaff WriterKnoxville, TNExploring the Wonder HouseMetroPulseexploring-wonder-houseurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23545-734380Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/jun/15/downtown-knoxvilles-whittle-uprising/?partner=RSSWhittle Communications—we may now be obliged to define it, for those who weren’t around in those heady days—was an unusual national publishing company, a maverick magazine factory that grew rapidly for 20 years before Chris Whittle built his Georgian collegiate-palatial building facing Main Street in 1991. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:34:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23189-734303columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNDowntown Knoxville's Whittle Uprising MetroPulsedowntown-knoxvilles-whittle-uprisingurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23189-734303Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/may/18/cowans-cottage/?partner=RSShat is/was the building on the corner of 16th Street and White Avenue in the Fort Sanders neighborhood? How old is it? Does the University of Tennessee own it? What is inside of it? Wed, 18 May 2011 17:20:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23028-734275columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNCowan’s CottageMetroPulsecowans-cottageurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-23028-734275Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/mar/23/knoxvilles-atlantis/?partner=RSSCherokee was to be a 60-square-block development with several hundred homes, a couple of parks, and six boat landings, spaced all the way around the peninsula. Part of the eastern shore was to be called Manhattan Beach. editor@metropulse.com (Z. Heraclitus Knox)Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:29:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22755-734222columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNKnoxville’s Atlantis MetroPulseknoxvilles-atlantisurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22755-734219Change734222Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/feb/23/diy-historical-research/?partner=RSSBecca and Russell McCurdy: "My husband and I moved into an historic home in Old North Knoxville this past July. We are interested in finding out the history of the home, but so far, haven’t been able to find much besides the names of former owners. Do you know anything about our house?" Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:12:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22612-734191columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNDIY Historical Research MetroPulsediy-historical-researchurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22612-734191Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/jan/12/full-story-waterwheel-lyons-bend/?partner=RSSFor most of the 19th century, First, Second, and Third Creeks were churning with water-powered mills. Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:05:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22349-734149columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNThe Full Story of the Waterwheel on Lyons BendMetroPulsefull-story-waterwheel-lyons-bendurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22349-734149Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/dec/15/knoxvilles-lost-cable-car/?partner=RSSDear Doc Knox: How about recounting the story of the 19th-century cable car across Holston River from Neyland Drive to Cherokee Bluffs. What was the big attraction up there at that time? Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:55:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22257-734121columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxZ. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNKnoxville's Lost Cable CarMetroPulseknoxvilles-lost-cable-carurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22257-734121Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/sep/22/tracking-down-mythical-paper-mill-papermill-drive/?partner=RSSJ. Brian Long: Dear Doc Knox, Was there once an actual paper mill on Papermill Drive? Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:41:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21815-734037columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxDr. Z. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNTracking Down the Mythical Paper Mill of Papermill DriveMetroPulsetracking-down-mythical-paper-mill-papermill-driveurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21815-734037Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/aug/18/state-st-great-street/?partner=RSSDon, on the Tellico River: As a teenager I carried the News Sentinel and, at times, the Knoxville Journal. While carrying the “Downtown Route,” my manager dropped my bundle at the Commerce Avenue Fire Hall, located at the corner of Commerce and State Street. My first stop was The State Street Apartments, just across the street. It was a huge building, made of stone. And, if my memory serves me, it had three or four stories. What can you tell us about this old building? Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:49:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21657-734002columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxDr. Z. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNState St., That Great StreetMetroPulsestate-st-great-streeturn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21657-734002Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/jul/21/search-n-r-hall-co-market-square/?partner=RSSDear Dr. Knox: What can you tell me about “N. R. Hall & Co. Market Square Knoxville, Tenn.”? This name is imprinted on a leather sweatband attached to a black vintage hat (circa 1920s?) purchased at an area antique shop. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:52:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21529-733974columns/knoxville-culture/ask-doc-knoxDr. Z. Heraclitus KnoxKnoxville, TNIn Search of “N. R. Hall & Co. Market Square”MetroPulsesearch-n-r-hall-co-market-squareurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21529-733974Change0Usable