Charter E. Doyle Memorial Park, 5100 W. Martin Mill Pike, is just what many people think a city park should be – green, peaceful and laidback.
But the 35-year-old park is …
Farragut: Lodging, libations and lore
With the holiday travel, New Year’s festivities and celebrating with libations among friends, much can be said and remembered of local watering holes in the Concord area. Some of the …
A brutal crime and a questionable conviction
The history of every city contains chapters many would like to forget. In the aftermath of a brutal crime in the summer of 1919, an innocent man may have been …
Remembering the Fountain City Fire Department: 1941-63
“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 …
Memories of Cas Walker fill hair salon
Bennie Wallen Jean may be the only woman in town who gets her hair done in the former office where she used to work. She’s certainly the only woman who …
Spreading Christmas greetings in simpler times ~ Concord 1950
It is early 1950s and the reliable Southern locomotive rolls past houses, farms and fields on its steel path toward Concord, Tennessee. As the mighty engine reaches the depot, it …
Adventures growing up in Fountain City, mostly true
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. …
The Fountain City Water Company, 1931-1966
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 …