Dr. Jim Tumblin, Author at Knox TN Today

Many present-day Knox Countians assume the Fountain Head Railway (The Dummy Line) (1895-1905) used...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Aug 17, 2021 0 6 min read

Homer B. Clonts joined the Navy in 1943 and served from 1943 to 1945. He was on three ships as a...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Jul 20, 2021 0 5 min read

William Warren Nichols was born on Oct. 8, 1917, the only child of Clyde L. Nichols (1894-1939)...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Jun 22, 2021 0 6 min read

In 1846, the widowed Katherine Schneider Baum and her 15-year-old son Karl (1831-1916) left their...

Dr. Jim Tumblin May 18, 2021 0 5 min read

The evening paper carried this headline on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1941: “Fire Changes Busy Block to...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Apr 13, 2021 0 6 min read

Finally, after years of searching, the genesis of Nannie Lee Hicks’ work has been uncovered in the...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Mar 16, 2021 0 5 min read

Some eight or 10 four-drawer file cabinets at the McClung Historical Collection contain many...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Feb 16, 2021 0 3 min read

For more than 50 of her 57 years at the Knoxville News Sentinel, Lucy Curtis Templeton penned her...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Dec 15, 2020 0 8 min read

Author: Dr. Jim Tumblin