Stories

Researched narratives from Knoxville’s past
The Fountains of Knoxville: A Summer Afternoon at World’s Fair Park
June 22, 2016
There is one place in town where blacks and whites and immigrants mingle daily, in close quarters. They go there for one reason, because jets of cool water shoot out of the ground....
Father’s Day in Knoxville
June 16, 2016
By some accounts, the national holiday of Father’s Day was prompted by the Monongah mining disaster of 1907, which killed more than 360 men, most of them fathers. There...
Knoxville’s Gay History May Never be Obvious
June 15, 2016
History supplies a handy perspective to almost every current issue. Crazy, angry gunmen, for example. We’ve had them in Knoxville since the saloon era, they always made...
Parking Garage Mystery: Pryor Brown and the Legend of the Gold Bricks
June 8, 2016
A while back there was an announcement of the likely prospects for the 1920s Pryor Brown Garage, the four-story brick building at Market and Church that was very nearly torn...
The 88-year-old Tennessee Theatre Gets an External Makeover
June 8, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. The Tennessee Theatre’s tall sign, removed this week, is only about 12 years old. A vertical sign was there during...
Some June Notes: West View Cemeteries, Fountain City, and More Digital Revelations
June 1, 2016
At its messy, railroad-track-strewn intersection with Western, Keith Avenue offers the promise of a clever shortcut west. But follow it into West View, and it starts to look...
Memorial Day in Knoxville
May 27, 2016
Memorial Day has been celebrated in Knoxville for about as long as the holiday has existed. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was a day for decorating the graves of war dead...
“Paper to Pixels” Project Reveals Surprising Nuggets of Local History
May 25, 2016
For the last few weeks, the Knox County Public Library’s “Paper to Pixels” project has made a couple of decades of News Sentinel articles and ads available to us via the library’s...
Knox Heritage’s 2016 ‘Fragile Fifteen’ List of Endangered Historic Buildings and Places
May 19, 2016
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Knox Heritage announces its short list of historical resources that are threatened, but show promise for new life...


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