Gay Street - The Center of Celebrations
Gay Street The Center of Celebrations 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...
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Tennessee Ernie Ford - WROL Studios
Cradle of Country Music Tour 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...
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Post Office
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Old Gray Cemetery - NRHP
OLD GRAY CEMETERYESTABLISHED 1850WAS PLACED ON THENATIONAL REGISTEROF HISTORICAL PLACESBY THE UNITED STATESDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORDECEMBER 4, 1996
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Old Gray Cemetery - Silent Voices
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...
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Patrick Sullivan's Saloon
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...
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The Midday Merry-Go- Round
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,...
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Southern Railway Station
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...
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Bondi Legends
Joan Symonds & Bill (Yooka) Symonds 1929-2011 1922-2015The Waverley community is Indebted to the lifetime of service of Joan and Bill Symonds In 1946 Bill helped found the Bondi United...