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100 Knoxville Blessings

Brandon Clarke October 23, 2008 Giving Back, Knoxified, Local History, Popular 23 Comments

So today is the big day, that’s right I’m 30. This is a big day for me as it is the deadline of several life goals. A little history, I grew up in Knoxville, went to Ole Miss, and moved to Denver, CO for 3 years, before coming back to …

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Before Dollywood There Was…?

Michael Wender August 14, 2008 Local History, Popular 13 Comments

If you read the title of this post and thought “Silver Dollar City,” you were only one-third right. True Dollywood and East Tennessee historians will remember that before Dollywood or even Silver Dollar City came Goldrush Junction. And, while writing this post, I discovered that the attraction originally opened as …

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