Since the city of Knoxville cut the ribbon on the Fort Dickerson Gateway Park on May 3, 2017, much of the focus on the park has been on the improved …
Anne G’Fellers Mason: Desperately seeking Nancy
The East Tennessee Historical Society welcomes Anne G’Fellers Mason, executive director of the Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia Heritage Alliance, to share her search for Nancy’s story; the story of …
Claude C. Myers left mark on Fountain City
The evening paper carried this headline on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1941: “Fire Changes Busy Block to Mass of Debris.” Fountain City Bank was in that block and its president, J. …
Separating myth from reality on Thunder Road
“On the first of April, Nineteen-Fifty-Four, the federal man sent word he’d better make his run no more.” These are lyrics from the song from the 1958 Movie “Thunder Road,” …
Holston Hills is featured Dogwood Trail
Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon and others will officially open 12 Dogwood Arts trails at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at Holston Hills Community Park, Chilhowee Drive and Holston Hills Road. …
History rests at Lebanon in the Fork Cemetery
It sits unassumingly on a hill in East Knox County overlooking the Holston River just before its junction with the French Broad. If traveling too fast along Asbury Road to …
Nannie Lee Hicks: Fountain City historian
Finally, after years of searching, the genesis of Nannie Lee Hicks’ work has been uncovered in the files of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection in a photograph and its caption …
Bijou Theatre: Knoxville’s entertainment survivor
While the world celebrated International Women’s Day on Monday, Knoxville history fans also recognized the date as an anniversary of local significance.
It was on March 8, 1909, that the Bijou …