Sun
May 4 2008
02:07 pm
KGIS adds 1935 Aerial Photos
By: Stick Thrower

Great news for map junkies and history buffs: KGIS added aerial photography from 1935 to the KnoxNetWhere online mapping.

Sequoia Hills/Cherokee Blvd was still a blank canvas in 1935:

From the KGIS website:

New 1935 Aerial Photography added to KGIS KnoxNetWhere - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The 1935 Aerial Photos of Knoxville have been added to the Aerial Photo and USGS Quads Themes. Change themes to the Aerial Photo Theme and then in the layers list turn Aerial Photo 1935 on and turn the Aerial Photo 2007 off (turn layer on by checking the box by it and refreshing the map).

Being able to overlay current roadways on the 1935 photography and then switch to aerials from 2001, 2003 and 2007 is very cool. It's interesting to see views of Knoxville without the snarls of pavement surrounding downtown and river front development before TVA flood controls existed.



Full size screen grab here of the image above showing the area from UT up past the now fabled free-flowing creek below James White Parkway.

Congratulations (and thanks!) to the KGIS team for continuing to improve their excellent online resource.

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lovable liberal's picture

Cool! Liberty and justice

Submitted by lovable liberal on Sun, 2008/05/04 - 2:44pm.

Cool!

Liberty and justice for all.

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Rachel's picture

Extremely cool. Thanks for

Submitted by Rachel on Sun, 2008/05/04 - 5:02pm.

Extremely cool. Thanks for sharing this. We're currently doing research on the history of our neighborhood and it's helpful to see what was here in 1935.

Jimmy's picture

We also added the USGS Quad maps to KnoxNetWhere

Submitted by Jimmy (not verified) on Tue, 2008/05/06 - 10:26am.

For those who use the KGIS KnoxNetWhere we have added the USGS Quad maps/Digital Raster Graphic Images to the KnoxNetWhere mapping site. To change theme to the USGS Quad theme open KnoxNetWhere from the (link...) website, then in the upper right click on the dropdown list of theme and select the USGS Quads.

Thanks for the comments on the 1935 Aerial Photos. They were scanned in by MPC.

jah's picture

I give. How do you access

Submitted by jah on Mon, 2008/05/05 - 9:37am.

I give. How do you access the 1935 maps?

edit: nevermind. It turns out that I can read after all.

Paul Witt's picture

What's amazing to see is

Submitted by Paul Witt on Mon, 2008/05/05 - 3:26pm.

What's amazing to see is what was on the land where the interstates are. Especially the part that's currently shut down. Wow.

lovable liberal's picture

Pave Ft. Sanders, put up a parking lot

Submitted by lovable liberal on Mon, 2008/05/05 - 8:52pm.

Not that Ft. Sanders was paradise when I lived in it many years ago, but how come the hospital and other medical enterprises couldn't build a big parking garage and leave the affordable housing?

Liberty and justice for all.

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bizgrrl's picture

I haven't noticed that the

Submitted by bizgrrl on Tue, 2008/05/06 - 5:46am.

I haven't noticed that the hospital has taken away that much affordable housing for surface parking in the past 30 years. They have at least 2 parking garages, 3 if you count the one with Children's Hospital, maybe more. They have added more buildings as well, not just parking.

lovable liberal's picture

Maybe it all happened in the

Submitted by lovable liberal on Fri, 2008/05/09 - 11:24pm.

Maybe it all happened in the the 1970s when I was away in Memphis, but there used to be a neighborhood west of Seventeenth, and it's just not there any more. Ft. Sanders Elementary was full of local kids then, and not a special needs center.

The rental house I lived in - and it had to be affordable on what my parents were making at the time - is gone, along with all its neighbors.

Of course, south of Cumberland, the University has eaten steadily away at housing, too.

Liberty and justice for all.

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edens's picture

>What's amazing to see is

Submitted by edens on Tue, 2008/05/06 - 10:59am.

>What's amazing to see is what was on the land where the interstates are.

The same can be done - in more detail - via the Sanborn fire insurance maps on file at the McClung collection. Check the circa 1921 set (updated and corrected into the early fifties)

I-40 reduced 4th and Gill to approximately half its previous size.

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