Dr. Jim Tumblin, Author at Knox TN Today

Fountain City has been home to a lot of iconic women, such as Lucy Curtis Templeton, Nannie Lee...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Aug 30, 2018 0 3 min read

“… Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of God of Jacob; and He will...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Aug 22, 2018 0 5 min read

Charles J. McClung built Ridgefield, his white-columned home, on Black Oak Ridge with its...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Aug 9, 2018 0 5 min read

Inskip owes its name to the fortunate collaboration of two men: a Southern industrialist and...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Jul 10, 2018 0 5 min read

When Herbert W. Fetner updated his will on May 20, 1957, he included this clause, “… my home on...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Jun 12, 2018 0 2 min read

"Flames destroy Fountain City Sanitarium. Seventy-five room building owned by Dr. Goetz is burned...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Jun 6, 2018 0 5 min read

Although Holbrook Normal College lasted only seven years, it had a profound effect on the field of...

Dr. Jim Tumblin May 9, 2018 0 4 min read

It takes a heap of living to make a house a home. (Edgar Guest, 1916) The farmhouse where Samuel...

Dr. Jim Tumblin Apr 10, 2018 0 5 min read

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