Inskip owes its name to the fortunate collaboration of two men: a Southern industrialist and railroad tycoon and a northern evangelist and religious campground organizer of renown.
The railroad tycoon was …
The history behind Inskip
Girl Scouts revive Fetner Gardens
When Herbert W. Fetner updated his will on May 20, 1957, he included this clause, “… my home on Kesterwood Drive (originally known as Hickory Lane Road) is to go …
The 1920 Fountain Head Hotel fire
“Flames destroy Fountain City Sanitarium. Seventy-five room building owned by Dr. Goetz is burned to ground. Twenty-one patients rescued, loss about $65,000. Lack of fire protection places neighboring structures in …
Holbrook Normal College: 1893-1900
Although Holbrook Normal College lasted only seven years, it had a profound effect on the field of education in Knox County and beyond. Many of its graduates became teachers and …
Edenvale: Home of McCampbell family
It takes a heap of living to make a house a home. (Edgar Guest, 1916)
The farmhouse where Samuel Shannon McCampbell (1842-1930) and Sarah Prudence Smith McCampbell (1845-1932) lived for over …
All aboard the Dummy Line
Perhaps the most eventful year in Fountain City’s history was the year 1890. That was the year that the U.S. Post Office decided Tennessee could not have two Fountain Heads, …
Park Place: Col. J.C. Woodward’s mansion
Park Place, Col. J.C. Woodward’s Mansion, later became the home of Matthew S. McClellan (1900-1909), Thomas Pruden (1909-1917) and J.C. Williams (1917-1980). It was demolished in 1980 to make way …
Whittle Springs Hotel and Resort: ‘The Playground of the Southland’
Its motto did not really apply until the major construction of 1917-18, but eventually the Whittle Springs Hotel and Resort lived up to the motto “The Playground of the Southland.”
The …