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Knoxville, TN - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Knoxville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Knoxville Home page. The Knoxville Home page provides as much information as possible on Knoxville. Knowing Knoxville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Knoxville’s Home page, you will also find Knoxville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Knoxville has a population of 603685. 48% of Knoxville’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 34.5% of Knoxville is married and 46.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $142,118, and the average rent is $883. Household median income in Knoxville is $41,598, and the individual median income is $23,898. Knoxville’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.6%), Black(16.9%), Hispanic(5.4%), Multiple(3.9%), Asian(1.7%), Other(1.6%), Native(0.3%).


Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third largest city after Nashville and Memphis. Knoxville is the principal city of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 869,046 in 2019.First settled in 1786, Knoxville was the first capital of Tennessee.


The city struggled with geographic isolation throughout the early 19th century. The arrival of the railroad in 1855 led to an economic boom. The city was bitterly divided over the secession issue during the American Civil War and was occupied alternately by Confederate and Union armies, culminating in the Battle of Fort Sanders in 1863.


Following the war, Knoxville grew rapidly as a major wholesaling and manufacturing center. The city's economy stagnated after the 1920s as the manufacturing sector collapsed, the downtown area declined and city leaders became entrenched in highly partisan political fights. Hosting the 1982 World's Fair helped reinvigorate the city, and revitalization initiatives by city leaders and private developers have had major successes in spurring growth in the city, especially the downtown area.Knoxville is the home of the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee, whose sports teams, the Tennessee Volunteers, are popular in the surrounding area.


Knoxville is also home to the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for East Tennessee, and the corporate headquarters of several national and regional companies. As one of the largest cities in the Appalachian region, Knoxville has positioned itself in recent years as a repository of Appalachian culture and is one of the gateways to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.


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