Where is knoxville texas

You can also print out pages with a travel map. Plan your road trip at. Click here to show map. Knoxville, Tennessee. The community continued to prosper until the early s, when it was bypassed by the International-Great Northern Railroad.

Most of the merchants and residents moved to newly established Troup, on the railroad. The post office closed in , and within a few years Knoxville was a ghost town. Knoxville History A second group of Tennesseeans, settling in the northeast part of the county , on the Engledow survey, in the late '40s [s], named the village, which soon sprang into existence, Knoxville, in honor of a home-state city.

Thomas Norman, grandfather of W. Norman, Rusk attorney, owned the land upon which was surveyed the town site later to become one of the important pre-railroad towns. Among other prominent residents of Knoxville were W. Pope and A. Carmichael, Norman's partners in the promotion of lot sales; Thomas Bell, W. Engledow captain of a company in Confederate service , James H. Salmon, William P. Henry, F. Gilbert, W.

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