Brief History of Knox County

Knox County Archives/East Tennessee Historical Society

Articles from East Tennessee Historical Society Publications:

“1820 Knox County Manufacturers Census.” Trans. by Ann K. Blomquist. Tennessee Ancestors 25, no. 2: August 2009.

Blum, Michael. “ ‘Everyone You Don’t Like is a Communist’: The Highlander Center and the Civil Rights Movement in Knoxville, 1961-1971.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 86 (2014): 57-76.

Carmichael, Jack and Jean. “Knoxville to Texas.” Tennessee Ancestors 8, no. 2 (August 1992): 113-114.

Crews, E. Katherine. “Early Musical Activities in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1791-1861.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 32 (1960): 3-17.

Hardy, William E. “Beneath the Gilding: Knoxville’s Million Dollar Fire of 1897 and Fire Safety Reform in the Marble City.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 85 (2013): 24-47.

Jordan, Rene. “The Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: Tennessee County, Knox County, and Jefferson County.” Tennessee Ancestors 11, no. 2: August 1995.

Jordan, Rene. “The Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: The first Treaty of Tellico (1798) and resulting alterations in the Blount, Knox, and Grainger boundaries; Cocke/Greene alteration (1799).” Tennessee Ancestors 13, no. 3: December 1997.

Lakin, Matthew. “ ‘A Dark Night’: The Knoxville Race Riot of 1919.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 72 (2000): 1-29.

Lamon, Lester C. “Tennessee Race Relations and the Knoxville Riot of 1919.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 41 (1969): 67-85.

Newman, John J. “Knox County and East Tennessee World War I Draft Registration Cards.” Tennessee Ancestors 18, no. 3 (December 2002): 202-216.

“Some Founders of Campbell’s Station, Tennessee: A Geneaology of Alexander, David, and James Campbell.” Compiled by Laura E. Luttrell. The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 25 (1953): 107-131.

Vick, Alison. “ ‘We Are a Distinct and Peculiar People’: Oliver Perry Temple and the Knoxville Industrial Association Address of 1869.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 84 (2012): 87-100.

Welch, Danette. “Lyons View, Knox County, Tennessee: A study in African-American community history.” Tennessee Ancestors 26, no. 3: December 2010.

Wheeler, William Bruce and Michael J. McDonald. “The Communities of East Tennessee, 1850-1940: An Interpretive Overview.” ETHS Journal, 1986-87.

Wise, Thomas E. “The Day President Rutherford B. Hayes Came to Town, Knoxville, 21 September 1877.” Tennessee Ancestors 18, no. 1: April 2002.

Yeatts, Jason M. “ ‘That We May Think Right, Vote Right, and Do Right’: Knoxville’s Black Community, 1865-1867.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 82 (2010): 76-100.