(preface)
On November 4, 1863, to divert Federal forces from Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led two reinforced divisions from the city to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s garrison in Knoxville. Burnside confronted . . . — — Map (db m82209) HM
Fort Sanders, a bastioned earthwork on the ridge two blocks north of here, was the scene of Gen. James Longstreet's unsuccessful assault upon the Federal defenses of Knoxville at dawn, Nov. 29, 1863. — — Map (db m69491) HM
To the memory of the Confederate soldiers
Who fell in the assault on Fort Sanders
November 29, 1863.
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your glorious . . . — — Map (db m76504) WM
Fort Dickerson to the west and Fort Stanley to the east were the center two of four fortified heights held by the Federals south of the river during the siege of Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. Maj. Gen. Jos. Wheeler C.S.A., made a vain effort to . . . — — Map (db m62515) HM
Fountain City United Methodist Church Founded in 1825In 1824, E.F. Sevier, grandson of Gov. John Sevier, came to this area as a Methodist circuit rider. By 1825, a plot of ground was secured and Fountain Head became a "preaching place." A log . . . — — Map (db m32350) HM
Near this spot in 1869 was the early Knoxville home of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the English-born author of The Secret Garden, Sarah Crewe, and Little Lord Fauntleroy, who moved to Knoxville with her family when she was 15. When Frances . . . — — Map (db m134855) HM
For six months in 1982, the world visited Knoxville's Second Creek valley. The World's Fair attracted more than 11 million visitors to the city. An amusement park was near the mouth of Second Creek and international pavilions filled 70 acres between . . . — — Map (db m166888) HM
July 4, 1793, was a gala day in the tiny Territorial Capital. The Gazette ecstatically reported that, at 2 p.m., the newly arrived Federal troops paraded, and fired a cannon to salute; at 4 o'clock, all the citizens partook of an elegant . . . — — Map (db m118451) HM
Gay Street and The Civil Rights Movement In late 1959 Knoxville College Students initiated the efforts to desegregate the city’s lunch counters and movie theaters in downtown Knoxville. They held sit-ins at the lunch counters and stand-ins at . . . — — Map (db m177969) HM
Side A Born in Cates Landing, Tennessee, on August 31, 1893, Clifton B. Cates attended school in Tiptonville and the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri. While excelling in varsity football and baseball, he received his law degree . . . — — Map (db m101786) HM
John Sevier, ”Nolichucky Jack,” Sept. 23, 1744, Sept. 24, 1815.
Pioneer, Soldier, Statesman and one of the founders of the Republic.
(west side) The typical pioneer who conquered the wilderness and fashioned the State. . . . — — Map (db m134861) HM WM
Herbert Hoover was born and lived in the Homberg area until he graduated from UT in 1934. He became the chief test pilot for MACA and soon after Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, Hoover became the . . . — — Map (db m165902) HM
The Hubris Building is in the National register's Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District. This area flourished during the shipping and migration boom of the late 1700's and early 1800's, due to its proximity to the railroads. The building . . . — — Map (db m134892) HM
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
Moonlight Seashore, 1923, Oil on Canvas
Hugh Tyler who studied art at the Pratt Institute and in Europe, worked form a studio in the Fort Sanders neighborhood and is best remembered for his . . . — — Map (db m223867) HM
Upon this spot stood the house of Alexander Cavett who was murdered together with two men and the Cavett family of twelve, September 25th, 1793, after heroic resistance against a combined Creek and Cherokee force numbering one thousand warriors, . . . — — Map (db m109336) HM
They turned aside into a darker street, where the fewer faces looked more secret, and came into the odd, shaky light of Market Square. It was almost empty at this hour, but here and there, along the pavement streaked with horse urine, a wagon . . . — — Map (db m134190) HM
The Foundation for this house was laid by Governor John Sevier on a block bought from Knoxville founder James White in 1797. James Park, pioneer merchant and Knoxville's second mayor, completed the main house in 1812. His son, Dr. James Park . . . — — Map (db m118398) HM
Born in Knoxville November 27, 1909, Agee was well-known and respected in the fields of journalism, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and film. He won a Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1957 for A Death in the Family, a novel based on his youth in . . . — — Map (db m101785) HM
Erected the city's first dwelling in this block in 1786. White's Fort was later constructed to surround the house.
Knoxville was named for Henry Knox, Washington's Secretary of War, and was chosen by Governor William Blount as capital of the . . . — — Map (db m82210) HM
Marble Springs was the farmstead of John Sevier. Tennessee’s first governor (1796–1801 and 1803–1809). While Sevier used the farm as a retreat where he entertained guests, it was originally a frontier station used by immigrants on the . . . — — Map (db m62516) HM
Journal Arcade Building Knoxville Tennessee This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Built 1924 — — Map (db m177957) HM
Died in Russellville, Ala. October 7, 1836
(south side)Historical Katherine Sherrill Sevier, Bonny Kate, came when a girl with her parents, to Tennessee from North Carolina; married John Sevier August 14, 1780 when she was 26 years . . . — — Map (db m134862) HM
This monument erected by veterans of the war with Spain and members of their auxiliary as a memorial to their departed comrades of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps – every one of them a volunteer – who served from 1898 to 1902 in Cuba, . . . — — Map (db m134880) WM
(north side) Knoxville, previously the capital of the Southwest Territory, 1792-1796, was designated as the first capital of the State of Tennessee by the Constitutional Convention of 1796. Near this site the first General Assembly of the . . . — — Map (db m134871) HM
Mountain Dew was born right here in Knoxville at 1921 East Magnolia Avenue. This area is the former home of Hartman Beverage, owned and operated by Barney and Ally Hartman. Here in 1948 the brothers created and trademarked the soft drink Mountain . . . — — Map (db m178113) HM
This liberal arts institution was opened in Knoxville by the United Presbyterian Church in 1875. It crowns the ridge from which the main batteries of Lt. James Longstreet's attacking force shelled the Federal Fort Sanders about 1800 yards to the . . . — — Map (db m107952) HM
Civil War Knoxville
In an 1861 referendum, 81 percent of East Tennessee voters rejected secession. Many in Knoxville, the region's largest city, supported the Union. During the Civil War, 30,000 East Tennesseans joined the U.S. Army. When . . . — — Map (db m100498) WM
In April 1861, before Tennessee seceded, Knoxville was deeply divided. Excited residents gathered in the streets and held rallies to sway public opinion. These divisions were never more visible then than during simultaneous Union and Confederate . . . — — Map (db m100524) HM
Knoxville's first Market House, opened on Main Avenue between Walnut and Market Streets in 1816, and the second and third on this square in 1854 and 1897, long served for the sale of farm products and as a colorful center of civic life. In 1863-64 . . . — — Map (db m160850) HM
Knoxville's Old Custom House
You are standing in front of Knoxville's first federal building, the Old Custom House (1874). The Custom House originally housed the federal court, excise offices, post office, and later, Tennessee Valley . . . — — Map (db m118517) HM
Krutch Park is the legacy of Charles Krutch, the last survivor of an eccentric and talented family. When they first arrived in Knoxville in the 1850's the proud German clan spelled their name Krütsch (the name is pronounced Krootch). Several of the . . . — — Map (db m118446) HM
In 1867, by resolution of the U.S. Congress, Tennessee became eligible to designate an institution to teach areas of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts and to receive the proceeds from the sale of federal land as prescribed by the . . . — — Map (db m118354) HM
Lawson McGhee Library (west panel) ”I intend to erect a building to be used as a public library, and at the same time, a memorial to a beloved child.” -Charles McClung McGhee
The original Lawson McGhee Library was . . . — — Map (db m134882) HM
Knoxville suffragist Lizzie Crozier French was a women's rights activist, social reformer, and organizer. In 1885, she founded the literary society GFWC Ossoli Circle. The same year, French reopened the East Tennessee Female Institute, serving as . . . — — Map (db m177854) HM
Born in northern Knox County (now part of Union County), Lloyd Branson is regarded perhaps as Knoxville's finest professional artist. Branson's family moved to Knoxville in 1868, and exhibited extraordinary talent as a youngster. After studying at . . . — — Map (db m134898) HM
"Bleak House," the home of Robert Houston Armstrong, was used as the headquarters of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet and Major Gen. Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., during the siege of Knoxville, November, 1863. — — Map (db m69486) HM
When it was completed in 1888, Magnolia Avenue was a broad, modern boulevard, a clean, quiet option to living in dirty, crowded downtown Knoxville.
Today, Magnolia Avenue hosts hundreds of magnolia trees, but it was named for a woman. Magnolia . . . — — Map (db m178109) HM
The long brick building on the left, between Austin and Bertrand, is the old Swan’s Bakery. It opened its new modern plant with some fanfare in 1927, and was so proud of it that Swan’s invited the public to see it, and even made the bakery . . . — — Map (db m178111) HM
Magnolia Avenue has long been an important thoroughfare for Knoxvillians. The city's first electric streetcar carried passengers from downtown to Chilhowee Park via Magnolia Ave. Beginning in 1890 its builder was William Gibbs McAdoo, who in the . . . — — Map (db m178115) HM
1797 – Manifold Station – 1820
Here at the mill and trading post
of Benjamin Manifold, Jr., many a
weary traveler westward bound
found provision, safety and hope. — — Map (db m195432) HM
This bronze bell hung in the tower of City Hall, on the north end of Market Square, beginning in the 1880s. Rung by the police chief, the bell signaled civic emergencies such as major fires and riots, via a number-based code. An effective means of . . . — — Map (db m98564) HM
In loving memory of
Mary Boyce Temple
1856 — 1929
Daughter of Judge and Mrs O P Temple
Organizing Regent Bonny Kate Chapter
Oct. 7, 1893
Vice president General N.S.D.A.R. 1898-9
State Regent of Tennessee, 1906-7 1920-21
Honorary . . . — — Map (db m195489) HM
Mary Frances Housley was born on October 12, 1926, to John and Fannie Mayer Housley in Knoxville, Tennessee. She lived at 300 Forestal Dr. (formerly Forest Ave.) while attending Central High School, graduating in 1944. In 1950 she became a flight . . . — — Map (db m165752) HM
Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (1919-1985) of Knoxville served in the US Army during World War II. He was taken prisoner by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. Edmonds was held prisoner at Stalag IXA POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. In . . . — — Map (db m160252) HM
On this site stood the home of Dr. James Gettys McGready Ramsey, physician, civic leader, statesman and author of the Annals of Tennessee, who lived here from 1872 until his death in 1884. It was named for Dr. Ramsey's first home, Mecklenburg, at . . . — — Map (db m101751) HM
World War I
SGT EDWARD R TALLEY
Co L 117th Inf Reg
Hometown: Russellville, Tennessee
MOH awarded for actions on October 7, 1918, near Ponchaux, France
SGT JAMES E (BUCK) KARNES
Co D 117th Inf Reg
Hometown: Knoxville, . . . — — Map (db m238380) HM WM
Dedicated to Vietnam Veterans of East Tennessee
Republic of Vietnam Service
All Gave Some,
Some Gave All
Feb. 1961 - May 1975
In memory of 671 East Tennesseans who gave their lives in the service of our country. Their names are . . . — — Map (db m214790) WM
One-eighth of a mile west of this spot there stood the building of Union Academy, generally called "Mr. Anderson's Log College", which was conducted from 1802 to 1812 by Rev. Isaac Anderson, founder and first president of Maryville College of which . . . — — Map (db m159558) HM
Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 12,389 feet. Mt. Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-caped several months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art, photography, literature, and . . . — — Map (db m197072)
Neyland Stadium, one of the largest stadiums in North America, is named for General Robert Neyland (1892-1962). This football coach who, in his 21 seasons at U.T., led the Vols through nine undefeated seasons and brought the Vols a National . . . — — Map (db m118618) HM
This Cemetery was established in 1880 by the Banner Lodge Chapter of the Odd Fellows Fraternal Order. This Cemetery was enlarged by the Daughters of Zion in 1881, the Good Samaritans in 1884, and the Silver Moon Chapter of the Odd Fellows in 1885. . . . — — Map (db m84478) HM
Since the Civil War, the thirteen-acre Old Gray Cemetery has been the final resting place for Union and Confederate
veterans. During the conflict, control of Knoxville shifted from Confederate to Union forces, so it is appropriate that both sides . . . — — Map (db m82211) HM
Old Gray Cemetery, incorporated in 1850, is the resting place of William G. Brownlow, Tennessee Governor and U.S. Senator, as well as two other U.S. Senators, eight U.S. Congressmen, 26 mayors of Knoxville, and numerous ambassadors, judges, editors, . . . — — Map (db m69501) HM
The third courthouse of Knox County was across Main Ave. to the north from 1842-1886. There twelve Union raiders who were charged with train stealing in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase in Georgia, were tried in 1863. One was convicted. The trial was . . . — — Map (db m4106) HM
Founded by Negro settlers and Welsh immigrants, Mechanicsville became a thriving community whose 2,000 citizens were annexed to the city in 1883. The area earned its name because it was home to skilled craftsmen employed by the Knoxville Iron . . . — — Map (db m167272) HM
Irish immigrant Patrick Sullivan (1841-1925), came to Knoxville with his family in the 1850s to work on the new railroad. Sullivan, a Union veteran, established his first bar near this spot soon after the Civil War, and built this larger, grander . . . — — Map (db m118708) HM
The Ramsey Plantation illustrates the story of a Confederate family in Unionist East Tennessee. The family, who supported secession, owned two thousand acres and four to eight slaves.
Born here in 1797, James Gettys McGready Ramsey was among the . . . — — Map (db m167296) HM
.2 mile east is the handsome two-story pink marble and blue limestone house built in 1797 by Francis A. Ramsey (1764-1820), pioneer settler, surveyor, college trustee, banker and public official. Ramsey served under four governments — North . . . — — Map (db m167288) HM
A Knoxville native, Robert Birdwell grew up in the Lonsdale area before moving to Kingsport, Tenn. The GI Bill allowed him back to move back to Knoxville to study at the University of Tennessee and from there he attended the University of Iowa's . . . — — Map (db m134893) HM
Major Robert Bannon Reynolds, veteran of the War with Mexico, built this house in 1848. During the War Between the States, it was the command post of the Confederate commander, Major Gen. James Longstreet, prior to his launching of the siege of . . . — — Map (db m167264) HM
On this site on June 3, 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville was formed. Ten prominent Knoxville businessmen met over lunch in the Grill Room of the Cumberland Club which occupied the site at the time. It was the 181st Rotary Club to be chartered . . . — — Map (db m134885) HM
The Andrew Johnson Hotel's top floor was the original site for WNOX's live country music variety show The Midday Merry-Go-Round. An early star of the show was a little known fiddler named Roy Acuff. The rowdy fans and musicians who crowded the . . . — — Map (db m118604) HM
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
The Passing Show, 1925, Oil on Canvas
Born in Vienna, Austria, Rudolph Ingerle became known as "The Painter of the Smokies" and became an advocate for their protection through the . . . — — Map (db m223868) HM
Untitled Abstract, 1960
Beck Cultural Exchange Center Collection
Born in Knoxville, Ruth Cobb Brice graduated from Swift Memorial College, a historically Black college in Rogersville, and was soon teaching at schools in Rogersville, . . . — — Map (db m178107) HM
Untitled Abstract, 1960
Beck Cultural Exchange Center Collection
Born in Knoxville, Ruth Cobb Brice graduated from Swift Memorial College, a historically Black college in Rogersville, and was soon teaching at schools in Rogersville, . . . — — Map (db m178110) HM
Untitled, 1970
Born in Knoxville, Ruth Cobb Brice graduated from Swift Memorial College, a historically Black college in Rogersville, and was soon teaching at schools in Rogersville, Greeneville, and La Follette. During the summer months . . . — — Map (db m222648) HM
Abstract Landscape with Birds, 1965
Born in Knoxville, Ruth Cobb Brice graduated from Swift Memorial College, a historically Black college in Rogersville, and was soon teaching at schools in Rogersville, Greeneville, and LaFollette. . . . — — Map (db m223857) HM
She was the love of his youth, the inspiration of his manhood, a gallant, courageous Colonial and Revolutionary patriot. Her descendants number many notable leaders of men.
Tennessee’s first Five Star Mother
(south side) Sarah Hawkins . . . — — Map (db m134859) HM WM
On July 2, 1791, the United States and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of Holston near this site. The treaty was negotiated by Governor William Blount of the Southwest Territory on behalf of President George Washington.
Among the terms of . . . — — Map (db m134851) HM
Site of Blount College Founded in 1794 Now the University of Tennessee Erected by Bonny Kate Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution 1925 — — Map (db m134897) HM
Site of Fort Adair, built in 1788 by John Adair, Revolutionary soldier.
Used as depot of supplies for the early settlers.
Erected by Bonny Kate Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. — — Map (db m32531) HM
Site of John H. Crozier Home Headquarters of Major General Ambrose Burnside, U.S.A. The Civil War Siege of Knoxville November, 1863 — — Map (db m177956) HM
Speedway Circle traces the route of Cal Johnson’s Racetrack, a half-mile oval famous for horse racing, from ca. 1897 to 1915. Born enslaved, Calvin F. Johnson (1844-1925) became one of Knoxville’s most creative businessmen, owning real estate and a . . . — — Map (db m177925) HM
A World War I veteran born in Knox County, St. Clair Cobb founded the Knoxville Colored High School Band in 1923. He taught music at several elementary schools, Beardsley Junior High School, and Austin High School, which was previously located at . . . — — Map (db m92854) HM
The St. James Hotel located on Wall Avenue, off of Market Square, was the site of several significant recordings with the Brunswick-Balke-Collander Company in 1929 and 1930.
The Tennessee Ramblers, a family band from nearby Clinton, Tennessee, . . . — — Map (db m118514) HM
One mile south was brick home of Charles Mcclung erected about 1805 by Thomas Hope, Architect, Mcclung laid off Knoxville in 1791 on site of White's fort, was on committee to draft Tennessee's first Constitution, and was charter trustee of Blount . . . — — Map (db m166885) HM
One mile south, Charles McClung erected his brick home
about 1806. McClung laid out the city of Knoxville in 1791 on the site of White's Fort, was on the committee to draft Tennessee's first Constitution. and was a charter trustee of Blount . . . — — Map (db m166886) HM
Built on this spot by Peter Staub, native of Switzerland, and opened October 1, 1872. In excellence and popularity it rivaled theatres of New Orleans and Richmond. Adolph Ochs, later publisher of New York Times, was its first chief usher. — — Map (db m118729) HM
In memory of the men who were on the Sultana, that was destroyed April 27, 1865, by explosion on the Mississippi near Memphis Tenn.
From Ind. Ky. Mich. Ohio Tenn. Va. Mo.
352—125—243—460—365—50—2
J. H. . . . — — Map (db m150866) HM WM
In 1927, Walter Self opened the Sutherland Avenue Airfield, Knoxville's first airport. The city bought the 59~acre site in 1929 and renamed it McGhee Tyson Airport, the city's first municipal airport. It bears the name of Lt. J.G. Charles McGhee . . . — — Map (db m188854) HM
While hosting the WROL studios in the late 1940s and 1950s, this building served as the center of a new movement in country music - bluegrass. The legendary duo Flatt and Scruggs used WROL as their home base for radio performances and touring. The . . . — — Map (db m118462) HM
Introduction.
After defeating the Union Army of the Cumberland in the bloody battle of Chickamauga (Sep 18-20, 1863) and besieging the Federal provisions in the city of Chattanooga, Confederate Army of Tennessee Commander Gen. Braxton Bragg . . . — — Map (db m231248) HM
As it's enjoyed today, the Court of Flags is a creative reimagining of the original Court of Flags, a stage where bands played and where dignitaries, including President Ronald Reagan spoke to thousands of visitors from around the world. Flags of . . . — — Map (db m214792) HM
Built in 1916 for Knoxville's Littlefield and Steere Candy Company, which enjoyed several years of prosperity with an international trade, the Candy Factory is an example of the World's Fair making creative use of old buildings. The Fair made the . . . — — Map (db m214793) HM
This northwestern part of the Fair site was reserved for multiple international pavilions, including those of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, West Germany, and Mexico, arranged down a long corridor. Especially memorable was that of the . . . — — Map (db m214794) HM
Four brigades of infantry, Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps, emerging from the declivity to the north made a bayonet charge upon Federal Fort Sanders at this point, at dawn, Nov. 29, 1863. They were stopped with heavy casualties by a deep ditch . . . — — Map (db m76502) HM
(side 1)
The Baker-Peters-Rogers House is significant for its history and its architecture. The surroundings of the house have changed drastically since its construction c. 1840. The house was the center of an extensive farm in west Knox . . . — — Map (db m94311) HM
The Everly Brothers’ blend of country music, rhythm ‘n’ blues and pop was one of the most innovative and original styles of the 1950s rock ‘n’ roll era. Their vocal harmonies were rooted in vintage country brother duets but had a pop sensibility and . . . — — Map (db m213175) HM
In the 1950s, this building was home to the WROL-AM studios. The Everly Brothers performed here until they left the station in a dispute with Cas Walker, the station's famed promoter and show host. After leaving WROL, Phil and Don Everly were . . . — — Map (db m118515) HM
The Knoxville Girl and other adaptations of folk ballads were among the earliest popular recordings in country and bluegrass music. The Knoxville Girl was among the early national recording hits for WNOX radio stars, The Louvin Brothers.
In . . . — — Map (db m118770) HM
The remains of this building mark the site that once served as WNOX's studio and "radiotorium" from the late 1930s until the 1950s. The Midday Merry-Go-Round, hosted by Lowell Blanchard, was broadcast six days a week at lunch time and was the most . . . — — Map (db m118839) HM
The Southern Railway Station at Knoxville Tennessee has been placed on the National Register of Historic Railroad Landmarks. 1903-2003 The two story buff brick station with its gables was designed by Frank P. Milburn and opened in 1903. An . . . — — Map (db m69517) HM
