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Emory Place was home for ‘The Dummy Line’

Dr. Jim TumblinAugust 17, 2021Fountain City, Our Town Stories

Many present-day Knox Countians assume the Fountain Head Railway (The Dummy Line) (1895-1905) used a site in downtown Knoxville as its home station. Not so, the home station was at …

Meet Fountain City’s pioneer businesswoman and unofficial ‘mayor’

Dr. Jim TumblinAugust 20, 2019Fountain City, Our Town Stories

Some important Fountain City history was made on March 30, 1903, when a transaction was recorded on the Knox County deed books. Col. J.C. and Nannie J. Woodward and Sol …

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