They can be as elaborate as ornate statuary from the Victorian era or as simple as plain stones placed over fallen soldiers. They might be tucked away in quiet corners of the county or rest in the shadows of the city s tallest buildings. They are the grave markers of Knoxville's dead, and they hold an unturned key to this East Tennessee community's past.
In this new book, Jack Neely and Aaron Jay take the reader on a tour through Knoxville s graveyards a photographic and historic sampling of more than forty cemeteries in Knox County. In words and pictures, Neely and Jay record the...

Conceived in 1853 as a canny real-estate scheme by two young investors expecting to get rich off the idea, Market Square came to be Knoxville s most public spot, a marketplace familiar to every man, woman, and child in the area. By the 1860s, it was the busiest place in a burgeoning city, a place to shop, work, play, eat, drink, and live. In a town that became bitterly divided by politics, race, and background, Market Square became a rare common ground: a place to buy all sorts of local produce, but also a place to experience new things, including the grandiose...