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• The Infamous McClung Warehouses Published 12/19/2012 at 1:42 p.m. 0 comments

  So who's the McClung behind the now burned-out McClung Warehouses?

• Empty Antebellum: One of the Oldest Houses in West Knoxville May be Redeveloped Soon Published 11/14/2012 at 9:15 a.m. 0 comments

  The 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), ...

• Knoxville’s Mysteriously Missing Streets Published 10/10/2012 at 1:42 p.m. 0 comments

  Dear 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?

• Baseball Town: Knoxville Once a Leader in the Newfangled Competition Published 9/12/2012 at 10:34 a.m. 0 comments

  The 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.

• Long-Ago Fisticuffs Recall Some Interesting Local Characters Published 5/23/2012 at 3:18 p.m. 0 comments

  Dear Dr. Knox: I cannot find a decent biography of John Williams, Jr. (1818-1881), the son of Colonel John Williams. Can you help?

• Recalling the Short Career of Early Country Music Singer George Reneau Published 3/28/2012 at 2:17 p.m. 2 comments

  Before 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 ...

• Wading Into Knoxville’s Slag Heaps and Forgotten Fens Published 2/1/2012 at 11:09 a.m. 0 comments

  Two 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 ...

• Downtown's Homegrown Revival Published 11/16/2011 at 3:47 p.m. 0 comments

  Question: 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 ...

• Exploring the Wonder House Published 8/31/2011 at 1:52 p.m. 3 comments

  Peggy: "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 ...

• Downtown Knoxville's Whittle Uprising Published 6/15/2011 at 11:34 a.m. 2 comments

  Whittle 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 ...

• Cowan’s Cottage Published 5/18/2011 at 1:20 p.m. 0 comments

  hat 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?

• Knoxville’s Atlantis Updated 3/26/2011 at 12:57 p.m. 0 comments

  Cherokee 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.

• DIY Historical Research Published 2/23/2011 at 12:12 p.m. 0 comments

  Becca 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 ...

• The Full Story of the Waterwheel on Lyons Bend Published 1/12/2011 at 12:05 p.m. 0 comments

  For most of the 19th century, First, Second, and Third Creeks were churning with water-powered mills.

• Knoxville's Lost Cable Car Published 12/15/2010 at 11:55 a.m. 0 comments

  Dear 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?

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