Shields-Watkins Field Turns 100
Wait Field courtesy of University of Tennessee “Without a doubt,” wrote a Sentinel sportswriter in 1920, “Knoxville can lay claim to first…
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What’s an Art Wrap?
It’s not a sandwich, but an artistic and historical walking experience. If you’re walking or driving around central Knoxville, you’ll see, on…
Read More >The Mystery of the Eugenia Williams House
On Lyons View, the west-side river-bluff road that is the address of Cherokee Country Club and Lakeshore Park, is a big brick house behind a high wall…
Read More >The Knoxville History Project: The Curious Visitor’s Organization
Editor’s note: If you’re new around here or have been reading our blog for quite some time, you may not be aware of all that our friends at the…
Read More >Alex Haley's Knoxville Forerunner
We all know that Knoxville was the final home of author Alex Haley, author of Roots, a groundbreaking narrative that traces his family back through…
Read More >South for the Spring
April is a historic month, especially regarding the Civil War. It was in April 1865 that the major armies of the Confederacy surrendered to U.S…
Read More >Our Female Pioneers: Mary Blount, Elizabeth Roulstone—and Margaret Russell Cowan Humes Ramsey
It's Women's History Month. In 2020 we celebrated the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, and learned a lot about Women's Suffrage, and it's a…
Read More >Birthplace of Tennessee?
How often do you think of Knoxville as the “Birthplace of Tennessee”? Whether you’ve heard that, or not, it’s one of our city’s distinctions. Many…
Read More >Happy Bootleggers' Day!
Kingston Pike Postcard | Courtesy Knoxville History Project Sunday, January 17, is National Bootleggers' Day, believe it or not. Knoxville…
Read More >Dempster Dumpster (Fire)
In some circles, the year 2020 has been called a “dumpster fire”. Defined as a metaphor for chaotically bad situations or laughably poor performance…
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