44 Facts About Knoxville Tennessee

That school was eventually chartered as Blount College and it served as the starting point for the University of Knoxville Tennessee, which uses Blount College's founding date of 1794, as its own.

Early Knoxville Tennessee has been described as an "alternately quiet and rowdy river town".

Knoxville Tennessee initially thrived as a way station for travelers and migrants heading west.

William "Parson" Brownlow, the radical publisher of the Knoxville Tennessee Whig, was one of the region's leading anti-secessionists .

Blount County, just south of Knoxville Tennessee, had developed into a center of abolitionist activity, due in part to its relatively large Quaker faction and the anti-slavery president of Maryville College, Isaac Anderson.

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The Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, Knoxville Tennessee was reportedly a station on the underground railroad.

Knoxville Tennessee rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia the following spring.

In 1896, Knoxville Tennessee celebrated its achievements by creating its own flag.

The Flag of Knoxville, Tennessee represents the city's progressive growth due to agriculture and industry.

In 1869, Thomas Humes, a Union sympathizer and president of East Knoxville Tennessee University, secured federal post-war damage reimbursement and state-designated Morrill Act funding to expand the college, which had been occupied by both armies during the war.

Knoxville Tennessee escaped from the Knoxville Jail and rode away on a horse stolen from the sheriff.

Knoxville Tennessee hosted the Appalachian Exposition in 1910 and 1911 and the National Conservation Exposition in 1913.

The Knoxville Tennessee Valley suffered from frequent flooding, and millions of acres of farmland had been ruined by soil erosion.

The fair's energy theme was selected due to Knoxville being the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority and for the city's proximity to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Since 2000, Knoxville Tennessee has successfully brought business back to the downtown area.

The Bijou and Knoxville Tennessee Theatres underwent renovation, providing an initiative for the city and its developers to re-purpose the old downtown.

In 2006, the City of Knoxville adopted the South Waterfront Vision Plan, a long-term improvement project to revitalize the 750 acre waterfront fronting three miles of shoreline on the Tennessee River.

Prominent Ridge-and-Valley structures in the Knoxville Tennessee area include Sharp's Ridge and Beaver Ridge in the northern part of the city, Brown Mountain in South Knoxville Tennessee, parts of Bays Mountain just south of the city, and parts of McAnnally Ridge in the northeastern part of the city.

The section of the Tennessee River that passes through Knoxville is part of Fort Loudoun Lake, an artificial reservoir created by TVA's Fort Loudoun Dam about 30 miles downstream in Lenoir City.

Notable tributaries of the Tennessee in Knoxville include First Creek and Second Creek, which flow through the downtown area, Third Creek, which flows west of U T, and Sinking Creek, Ten Mile Creek, and Turkey Creek, which drain West Knoxville.

Knoxville Tennessee is the central city in the Knoxville Tennessee Metropolitan Area, an Office of Management and Budget -designated metropolitan statistical area that covers Knox, Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Grainger, Loudon, Morgan, Roane and Union counties.

Additionally, the Knoxville Tennessee MSA is the chief component of the larger OMB-designated Knoxville Tennessee-Sevierville-La Follette TN Combined Statistical Area .

Municipalities in the CSA, but not the Knoxville Tennessee MSA, include Morristown, Rutledge, Dandridge, Jefferson City, Sevierville, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, LaFollette, Jacksboro, Harriman, Kingston, Rockwood, and Newport.

Knoxville Tennessee is home to the nation's largest concentration of homes designed by noted Victorian residential architect George Franklin Barber, who lived in the city.

The Knoxville Tennessee Chamber is one of six partners in the Knoxville Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley, which promotes economic development in Knox and surrounding counties.

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Largest company based in Knoxville Tennessee is privately held Pilot Flying J, the nation's largest truck stop chain and sixth largest private company, which reported over $29.

Also based in Knoxville Tennessee are movie theater chain Regal Cinemas, major operations of Discovery, Inc, and health care-staffing firm TeamHealth.

Major companies located within the Knoxville Tennessee MSA include Clayton Homes and Ruby Tuesday, and DeRoyal and Weigel's .

Knoxville Tennessee area is home to 596 office buildings which contain over 21million square feet of office space.

Major brokerage firms with offices in Knoxville Tennessee include Edward Jones, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Wells Fargo, and Merrill Lynch.

Major manufacturing operations in the Knoxville Tennessee MSA are conducted at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, the DENSO plant and the Clayton Homes manufacturing center, and the ALCOA plants in Alcoa.

Downtown Knoxville Tennessee contains a number of specialty shops, clubs, and dining areas, mostly concentrated in the Old City, Market Square, and along Gay Street.

University of Knoxville Tennessee is classified by the Carnegie Commission as a university with "very high research activity", conducting more than $300million in externally funded research annually.

Knoxville Tennessee is home to a rich arts community and has many festivals throughout the year.

East Tennessee PBS operates Knoxville's Public Broadcasting Service station at WKOP 17.

Discovery, Inc operates the former Scripps Networks Interactive cable television networks from Knoxville Tennessee, including HGTV, Magnolia Network, Food Network and Cooking Channel.

South College is a for-profit school located in West Knoxville Tennessee that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business, health care, criminal justice, and legal fields.

Knoxville Tennessee College was a historically black college that began operating in Knoxville Tennessee in the 1870s.

Knoxville Tennessee College had an enrollment of about 100 students as of 2010 and closed permanently in 2015.

Two principal interstate highways serving Knoxville Tennessee are Interstate 40, which connects the city to Asheville and Bristol to the east and Nashville to the west, and Interstate 75, which connects the city to Chattanooga to the south and Lexington to the north.

Rail freight in Knoxville Tennessee is handled by two Class I railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern, and one shortline, the Knoxville Tennessee and Holston River Railroad.

Knoxville Tennessee and Holston River Railroad is a subsidiary of Gulf and Ohio Railways, a shortline holding company headquartered at the James Park House in Downtown Knoxville Tennessee.

Knoxville Tennessee is an international port connected via navigable channels to the nation's inland waterways and the Gulf of Mexico.

Knoxville Tennessee has seven sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International:.