The 12-acre site of Fountain City Park was used for religious camp meetings as early as the 1830s. In 1851, the Fountain Head Methodist Episcopal Church (later Fountain City United Methodist Church) purchased the property. Col....
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William Louis Welcker: Mayor of Old North Knoxville (1849 -1922) The economic surge that occurred...
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What is Fountain City’s oldest business that is still in existence? Until a couple of years ago,...
Read MoreMany who were students at Smithwood Grammar School in the 1930s and 1940s will remember Mr. Lakin, the tall, kindly, highly effective principal of the school. Hubert DeKalb Lakin (1906-1979) grew up in the Graveston community of...
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