Magnolia Avenue

A Mile of Magnolia: This Weekend’s Open Streets Showcases an Interesting Part of Town Some Avoid

May 18, 2017

Some suburbanites who know Magnolia Avenue only from vice reports in the news pronounce it with a shiver. It’s a butt of complacent cocktail-party jokes. Newcomers to town, free of preconceptions, see Magnolia Avenue for the first time and say, […]

Magnolia Avenue’s History

February 25, 2016

Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. Today, Magnolia Avenue has hundreds of magnolia trees, but it was named for a woman. Magnolia Bryan Branner (1829-1907) was originally from Georgia, but moved to Knoxville with her husband, George […]

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Jack Neely is executive director of the Knoxville History Project. He has become one of Knoxville’s most popular writers and its unofficial historian. Jack is well known for his thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative pieces of long-form journalism, not to mention his books, speeches, and other public appearances...

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Magnolia Avenue

A Mile of Magnolia: This Weekend’s Open Streets Showcases an Interesting Part of Town Some Avoid

Magnolia Avenue’s History

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