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KNOXVILLE
THE METROPOLIS OF EASTERN TENNESSEE
By JOSHUA W. CALDWELL
The beginnings of Knoxville were Scotch-Irish.
Its founder was James White, a
Scotch-Irishman from North Carolina. Its
first place of worship was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian
Church, wherein the faith of the Covenant
was preached without mitigation, to the
edification and uplifting of the community.
The dominant element of its population until
after the Civil War was Presbyterian, and it
is still strong.
The first effort of the white men to possess themselves of any part of Tennessee was in 1756, when old Fort Loudon was erected about thirty miles west of where Knoxville now stands. Fort Loudon did not long resist the Cherokees. Its short story is one of the most
