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Website. www .knoxvilletn .gov. Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States. [15] As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, [16] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis. [17] It is ...
The History of Knoxville, Tennessee, began with the establishment of James White's Fort on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in 1786. [1] The fort was chosen as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and the city, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was platted the following year. [1] Knoxville became the first capital of the State of ...
423, 865. The Knoxville metropolitan area, commonly known as Greater Knoxville, [2] is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) centered on Knoxville, Tennessee, the third largest city in Tennessee and the largest city in East Tennessee. It is the third largest metropolitan area in Tennessee. In 2020, the Knoxville metro area (the MSA as defined ...
Website. knoxcounty .org. Knox County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 478,971, [3] making it the third-most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Knoxville, [4] which is the third-most populous city in Tennessee. Knox County is included in the Knoxville metropolitan area.
Lowell Cunningham (b. 1959), comic book writer, Men in Black creator. Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), poet. Alex Haley (1921–1992), author of Roots. George Washington Harris (1814–1869), Southern humorist. Frederick Heiskell (1786–1882), pioneering Tennessee journalist; cofounder of the Knoxville Register.
Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. Website. worldsfairpark .org /sunsphere. The Sunsphere located in World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, is a 266-foot (81 m) high hexagonal steel truss structure, topped with a 75 ft (23 m) gold-colored glass sphere that served as the symbol of the 1982 World's Fair .
1791. Knoxville founded as the capital of the Southwest Territory, named for Henry Knox [2] Knoxville Gazette newspaper begins publication. [3] 1792 – Blount Mansion built. [4] 1793 – First Presbyterian Church established. [4] 1794 – Blount College (later the University of Tennessee) established.
Downtown Knoxville. / 35.969322; -83.9494097. Downtown Knoxville is the downtown area of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It contains the city's central business district and primary city and county municipal offices. It is also home to several retail establishments, residential buildings, the city's convention center, and World's Fair Park.