Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
1895 - Knoxville

Knoxville, a city, the capital of Knox co., Tenn., is beautifully situated on the right or N.W. bank of the Holston River, about 180 miles E. of Nashville, and 200 miles by water above Chattanooga. By railroad it is 112 miles N.E. of Chattanooga. It is on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, and is a terminus of the Knoxville & Charleston Railroad, which connects here with the Knoxville & Ohio Railroad. It is built on a hilly or uneven site, and is surrounded by picturesque scenery. It is the seat of the University of Tennessee, which was organized in 1869 and has 17 instructors and about 250 students. Connected with the university is the Tennessee Agricultural College. Here is an institution for the deaf and dumb, founded by the state, an asylum for the insane, also a public building erected by the United States for a custom-house and post-office. This is built of a beautiful gray marble quarried in the vicinity, and cost about $400,000. Two bridges cross the river here. Knoxville contains about 30 churches, 5 national banks, 4 other banks, a convent, a rolling-mill, 2 iron-foundries, a machine-shop a nail-factory, 3 flouring-mills, and manufactures of ca: wheels, cars, furniture, and sash and blinds. Three daily and 4 weekly £ and a religious paper are published here. Steamboats can ascend the river in high water. Knoxville was the capital of the state from 1794 to 1817. Pop. in 1880, 9693; in 1890, 22,535.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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