Local coverage
Project conversations across Knox County and the East Tennessee ridge-and-valley region.
Coverage depends on independent provider availability. Each page below explains useful housing and site context for that community.
Farragut
Farragut was originally known as Campbell's Station, named for a fort and stagecoach stop Captain David Campbell built there in 17...
Local planning notes →Maryville
Maryville was laid out in 1795 as the seat of newly formed Blount County, on fifty acres donated by Revolutionary War veteran John...
Local planning notes →Powell
Powell was settled in 1789, two years before Knoxville itself, and later took its name from Columbus Powell, a prominent local res...
Local planning notes →Fountain City
Fountain City grew up around Fort Adair, a stockade built around 1791 to supply early settlers, and the surrounding settlement -- ...
Local planning notes →Halls
Halls grew up at the crossroads of Emory Road and Maynardville Highway after Thomas Hall, awarded land for his Revolutionary War s...
Local planning notes →Karns
Karns grew from a farming community northwest of Knoxville into a suburban area, its landscape sloping from Melton Hill Lake up to...
Local planning notes →Seymour
Seymour began as Newell's Station, a 1783 frontier outpost established by Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Newell along Boyd's Cre...
Local planning notes →Bearden
Bearden takes its name from Marcus De Lafayette Bearden, a Union Army veteran later elected both Knox County sheriff and mayor of ...
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