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Author
Publisher
Knoxville History Project
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive and engaging guide for both visitors and residents, Historic Knoxville offers a wide-raging guided tour to scores of places and institutions relevant to the city's little known but endlessly fascinating history.
Author
Publisher
Knoxville History Project
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In its time, Bearden has seen a motley assortment of pioneers, some of them immigrants, some of them rare African American landowners, spread alongside the toll road into the western wilderness; the first railroad ever built through East Tennessee; Knoxville's first eighteen-hole golf course; the dawn of aviation in East Tennessee, and Knoxville's first municipal airport; a major brick factory, a landmark hat factory, and the biggest rose-production...
Author
Publisher
Randy and Jenny Boyd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
Jack Neely, the award-winning Knoxville journalist and historian, takes readers on a tour through time of his area we know today as the Old City, from the arrival of the iron horse to the arrival of nationally known bands for Rhythm N' Blooms. The arc of the Old City's history, composed of so many individual and communal stories, provides a unique glimpse into personal lives, economics, architecture, and social mores over the last two centuries--and...
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