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General Pickle’s “Fort Sanders Hall” Is Apparently Doomed
October 21, 2015 In Buildings West Knoxville 1 Comment

The Pickle Mansion is dying hard. Since it was gutted by a fire in the summer of 2003, when we were all a dozen years younger, the big house at 1633 Clinch Ave. has existed only as an intriguing ruin. […]

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A Short History of Knoxville’s Parkridge Neighborhood and its George Barber Houses
October 21, 2015 In East Knoxville North Knoxville No Comment

This Sunday, the 25th, is the annual Parkridge Home Tour. Parkridge is a long neighborhood of almost 3,000 residents between Magnolia Avenue and what’s now Interstate 40, from Winona Street on the west to Cherry Street on the east. Part […]

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Joe Mabry’s Legacy
October 14, 2015 In Buildings Knoxville History 2 Comments

The Mabry-Hazen House offers a rare glimpse into another time, and the stories of a particularly passionate family. Although the house and tree-shaded grounds makes it seem a different place and time, it’s less than a mile east of the […]

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The Origins of the Knoxville Zoo
October 8, 2015 In East Knoxville Knoxville History No Comment

Accredited by the national Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the Knoxville Zoo has a few distinctions not shared by other zoos. It bred the first African elephant born in this hemisphere, and has more red pandas than any other zoo […]

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The Day the White House on Wheels Rolled into Town
October 7, 2015 In Downtown Knoxville No Comment

If you went back there, you’d see the outline of a familiar city, with its parts rearranged in puzzling ways. It would be the sort of weird dream that would make you worry about yourself. That week bluegrass legend Lester […]

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How the City of Knoxville Began
October 1, 2015 In Knoxville History No Comment

All cities have a founding story. Knoxville’s is unusual. From the day it was named, Knoxville was the capital of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio. That federal territory was a large tract stretching from […]

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Kings Alley
September 30, 2015 In Downtown Knoxville No Comment

Whenever we talk about black history, we have to admit that there are large parts of it that are off limits to us. Before the civil-rights era, black lives were rarely chronicled in newspapers and books. We have to rely […]

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Louie Bluie Festival Celebrates the Legacy of Eclectic Musician Howard Armstrong
September 24, 2015 In Buildings No Comment

The annual Louie Bluie Festival is held each year at Cove Lake State Park, about 30 miles north of Knoxville off I-75, but it celebrates the legacy of a musician who kept things lively in downtown Knoxville in the 1920s […]

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Metro Pulse’s Online Archives Vanish Overnight
September 23, 2015 In Other No Comment

We’d been wondering when this shoe might fall. Last week we learned that someone associated with the Journal Media Group, the News Sentinel’s corporate owner, disconnected or allowed to lapse several years’ worth of the archives of Metro Pulse, removing […]

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