Join us at Union Avenue Books in downtown Knoxville this Saturday January 21st at 2:00PM - Doug McDaniel, Homer Andy Anderson, and Jacob Knox Chandler McDaniel, authors of Historic North Knoxville.

From Depot Street at the Southern Railway north to the 1889 City of North Knoxville boundary at Woodland Avenue, follow the authors as they walk the sidewalks of some of the most fascinating parts of our community. You'll read about heroic train engineers who gave their lives in the service of their railroad. You'll learn about a simple farmer who became a United States congressman, rising to control a powerful Republican political machine, only to be killed by arsenic poisoning. You'll rediscover important families like Mary Faith Floyd, a confederate novelist, and her professor husband, William Gibbs McAdoo, who lived where Fourth and Gill Park is today. You'll also learn new facts about their son, William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr., and their intriguing daughter, Laura Julia McAdoo-Gagey, an international suffragist. You'll learn about coal baron Eldad Cicero Camp and industrialist Anthony L. Maxwell, the Union bridge builder and ironmaker who developed North Broadway. Read about important business leaders and merchants like William Randolph Carter, Benjamin Andrew Morton, and other fascinating characters, many of whom are buried at Old Gray Cemetery.

The book is 276 pages, and includes 366 images. It's big, and took over three years to complete research. More than 60 individuals contributed rare family photos to provide an inside glimpse of life in North Knoxville as much as a century ago, and includes the Emory Place, Fourth and Gill, Happy Holler, and Old North Knoxville neighborhoods. We hope you enjoy the book as much as we did putting it together. And make sure you pick up a copy of Historic Oakwood and Lincoln Park, the companion volume we published last year, available at the same retail establishments. Both books provide a rich back story to the development of the North Knoxville area.