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Knoxville Chronicles

Knoxville History Project

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

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11:05

Ghost Walking the Christmas Streets of Knoxville: The...

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/12/18

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 all began. Cities of Knoxville’s size had been clamoring to get on the Christmas parade bandwagon since watching the Macy’s Christmas Parade be wildly received in New York in 1924. Even though that first one was staged on Thanksgiving Day, that C...

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19:11

The Conjure Man

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/10/28

The Knoxville area once known as the Bowery included hundreds of little shops: secondhand stores run by immigrants, some early African American barber shops and movie theaters, some of the city’s first Chinese laundries, some of the city’s last livery stables and blacksmiths, and drugstores that sold things that mainstream drugstores wouldn’t. It was also the epicenter of an underground economy, the herb men. To most people, one such herb man, known as Doc Mullins, was a complete myster...

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35:21

Through the Keyhole: Knoxville’s Extraordinary Marble...

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/09/29

For anyone who has spent much time in Knoxville, there is one thing that you’ll encounter in almost every part of the city, and that’s Tennessee marble. It graces several impressive downtown buildings, and you can see where it was once extracted at several abandoned or reclaimed quarries, particularly at Ijams Nature Center, now part of the city’s expansive Urban Wilderness in South Knoxville. While the nature center still retains the original acreage where the Ijams family originally d...

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Ghost Walking the Streets of Knoxville: A Section of...

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/09/24

Walk along Walnut Avenue between Union Avenue and Summit Hill Drive today and you’ll find that it’s a relatively unremarkable spot. But it was once the home of one of the city’s respected couples, Peter and Henrietta Kern, who lived here in the late 1800s within spitting distance of the hustle and bustle of their retail emporium on the southwest corner of Market Square. The Girl’s High School would be built next door to the Kern’s, and later a string of retail shops, including George Loo’s ha...

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9:48

Ghost Walking the Streets of Knoxville: Market Square

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/09/08

There are ghost walks and then there is “ghost walking.” Ghost Walking the Streets of Knoxville takes a look at life on the city’s downtown streets in bygone times; how these streets and their buildings have changed throughout the decades, and how through old pictures and stories we can glimpse the echoes of people’s past lives and particular events. In this episode, historian Paul James reads the first of his own Ghost Walking columns that he wrote for InsideofKnoxville.com, taking us throug...

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28:09

The Legend of Marshall Carlos

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/04/03

This surprising story focuses on a Spanish-speaking police chief beginning in the 1850s during Knoxville’s murky antebellum era. Christopher Columbus Carlos, a tailor-turned-policeman had a reputation as an especially tough cop—a Town Marshall even—who was so skilled with a long stick and a thrown brick that he never carried a gun. A legend in his own time, stories of Marshall Carlos continued even when he was an old man in a rapidly growing city of tall buildings. Old folks would tel...

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11:53

Groundhog Day and Knoxville

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2025/01/22

Groundhog Day is a peculiar holiday. We don’t expect Groundhog Day dinners, Groundhog Day gifts, Groundhog Day songs. But still, there it is, every February 2nd. It’s almost like the 1993 film starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowall: it always seems the same. Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, and we always have six more weeks of winter. Repeat.Numerous holidays seemed to pop up in the years just after the Civil War, especially between 1865 and 1880, including Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s D...

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31:24

The October Carnival

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2024/10/23

Imagine October in Knoxville, and subtract Volmania, drives in the Smokies, and Halloween decorations, and what would you have? But on certain Octobers between 1884 and 1913, we had more creative and unpredictable fun than we ever have today. The four-day event involved “a parade representing 65 or so local industries, 50 horse-drawn floats, a regatta on the Tennessee River, horse racing at the southside river park and a jousting tournament involving dozens of local “knights” in medieval...

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35:58

Through the Keyhole: Knoxville’s Extraordinary Marble...

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2024/09/10

For anyone who has spent much time in Knoxville, there is one thing that you’ll encounter in almost every part of the city, and that’s Tennessee marble. It graces several impressive downtown buildings, and you can see where it was once extracted at several abandoned or reclaimed quarries, particularly at Ijams Nature Center, now part of the city’s expansive Urban Wilderness in South Knoxville. While the nature center still retains the original acreage where the Ijams family originally d...

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7:12

Creature of the Cumberlands

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/10/30

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8:00

Halloween 2: Tricks and Treats

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/10/21

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12:08

Halloween Begins

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/10/19

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20:31

Love in the Time of Upheaval: The Cansler Elopement

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/07/12

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14:43

The Hottest Day and the Immortal Kiosk

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/05/22

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27:41

Matilda X

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/05/18

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15:29

The Conjure Man

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/04/25

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11:40

The Saturnalia of 1893 (Season 1)

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/03/03

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6:23

Knoxville's Thanksgiving Traditions (Season 1)

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/03/03

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8:39

In Walked Mr. Ghost (Season 1)

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/03/03

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7:27

A Dickens of a Knoxville Christmas (Season 1)

Knoxville Chronicles ·

2023/03/03

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