Knoxville

Knoxville, a city of Tennessee, stands amid picturesque scenery on the Holston River, at the head of steamboat navigation, 165 miles E. of Nashville. It is a railway junction, and has manufactures of iron goods, wooden wares, flour, &c. Here are the state university and the agricultural college, the state school for deaf-mutes, an industrial school for coloured pupils, and a handsome post-office. Pop. (1880) 10,917; (1890) 22,535.