Historic Knoxville Guidebook

A comprehensive and engaging guide for both visitors and residents, Historic Knoxville offers a wide-ranging guided tour to scores of places and institutions relevant to the city’s little known but endlessly fascinating history.

Knoxville was Tennessee’s first capital, one of the Civil War’s most complicated places to live, and one of the South’s leading industrial and educational centers – as well as home to several nationally influential writers and musicians.

The guide encompasses:

• Knoxville history essay with extensive timeline
• Historic Homes
• The old brick buildings of Knoxville’s downtown core
• Historic neighborhoods
• Park and Gardens
• Cemeteries and statuary
• University of Tennessee campus
• Civil War sites
• Museums and collections
• User-friendly maps

This guide is reaching a local audience and is well on its way to selling out of its first printing within one year of release!

The guide received an Award of Distinction from the East Tennessee Historical Society in 2019.