In spring of 1935 The Knoxville Journal featured the postmen of Knoxville.  Pictures and a short biographical sketch of the letter carriers...

At the end of August, 1919, a riot broke out in downtown Knoxville.  The cause of the riot centered around the arrest and holding of Maurice...

William Houston Gass (Mayor, 1904-1905) The Honorable William Houston Gass was Knoxville’s 51 st mayor, serving in 1904 and 1905. The ...

I found two listings of interments at the former Knoxville College Cemetery, now known as the Freedmen's Mission Historic Cemetery . F...

When is Chisholm Tavern not Chisholm Tavern?  When it is on the wrong lot. From the June 16, 1957 edition of The Knoxville News-Sentinel , w...

Paula Johnson, of Knoxville Food Tours , gave a very interesting brown bag lecture at the East Tennessee History Center , about the Lost Res...

Here are some of the newspapers published in and around Knoxville... Calvin Morgan McClung historical collection of books, pamphlets, ma...