Local coverage
Project conversations across Knox County and the East Tennessee ridge-and-valley region.
Provider availability across the Knoxville area shifts with demand and terrain. Each community note below covers what's actually different about the ground and housing there.
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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