“A privately operated fire department is to begin serving residents of Fountain City, Smithwood, Inskip and Halls Cross Roads May 15.” (Knoxville News Sentinel, April 13, 1941)
Interest in a Fountain …
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Life as a fearless young Marine Pirate growing up in Fountain City was not always a nonstop adventure. For example, …
Previously, I’ve written about my misadventures with Danny growing up. Danny was my best friend as well as the friend most likely to bring me to grief.
I became friends with …
When last we saw our intrepid adventurers, yours truly and his pal Danny, they were fresh from an exercise in dam building in Fountain City Park that succeeded all too …
Like Popeye, I was born as a very young child. My earliest years were spent in the hinterland of Knox County, a brisk 10-minute walk from the Union County line. …
Fountain City has been called Knoxville’s most fiercely independent community. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s a welcome sign on Broadway near Greenway proclaimed the message “The Nation’s Largest Unincorporated …
A list of items that increase property values might include good schools, convenient access to grocery stores, nearby banking, parks and mature shade trees. A “beer garden” just a stone’s …
It’s been 30 years since Mark Carringer was a student at Gresham Middle School, but last week he returned to Fountain City to dig up some history.
Carringer, who now lives …
