Knoxville Chronicles
Knoxville Chronicles is a podcast series produced by the Knoxville History Project highlighting some of the most interesting of the city’s old stories that still have relevance today.The Knoxville History Project is an educational nonprofit with a mission to research, preserve and promote the history and culture of Knoxville, Tennessee.Learn more at KnoxvilleHistoryProject.org
Podcasting since 2023 • 22 episodes
Knoxville Chronicles
Latest Episodes
The Jazz Legend of Gordon’s Town House
For decades, jazz fans in Knoxville have heard rumors of Gordon’s Town House on the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 17th Street. In the 1950s, full swing orchestras played there in its big dining room with a dance floor that looked straight out...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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20:01
Birth of a National Park in the Smokies: How Knoxville Turned a Great Idea into a Significant Grassroots Movement
For many years, only intrepid explorers and hardy lumbermen were drawn to the forbidding mountains visible on the horizon from Knoxville. Despite early efforts on the North Carolina side of the Smoky Mountains in 1899, things only really got mo...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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24:29
Charles McGhee Tyson: The Story Behind the Name of the Knoxville Airport
When checking the status of a flight or whether you are heading out of town or waiting on a family member or friend to arrive, it’s handy to know the three-digit code for the Knoxville airport. Those three letters—T Y S —stand for Tyson, or mor...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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8:14
Ghost Walking the Christmas Streets of Knoxville: The Inaugural Knoxville Santa Claus Parade
These days, the annual Knoxville Christmas parade that rolls along Gay Street, typically on the first Friday of December, remains as popular as ever. But everything has to start somewhere, and we have to look back almost 100 years to see how it...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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11:05