Learning Resources

A series of interactive maps that illustrate the destruction of Tennessee's Black neighborhoods, including the community demolished for the contraction of James White Parkway in Knoxville.

An interactive map that geolocates historic images of structures removed as part of the Riverfront-Willow Street Urban Renewal project in Knoxville, Tennessee, beginning in the mid-1950s.

An interactive map of properties located within the Riverfront-Willow Street and Mountain View Urban Renewal projects, as sourced from the 1953 Knoxville, Tennessee, city directory.

Provides maps, historical aerials, address searches and property owner reports, school zones, voting districts and elected officials, and more.

Digitized from the Knox County Archives collection.

Includes population, school enrollment, county officials, land ownership.

Digitized from the Knox County Archives collection.

An interactive map that utilizes American Revolutionary War pension records to chart the paths that Tennessee soldiers took before and after their service.

Sanborn maps from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.

Chronicles the founding of the city and includes an interactive map that traces immigration patterns of participants in the 1791 Knoxville Land Lottery.

An interactive map of the 31,000+ documented historic cemeteries in Tennessee.

Fire insurance maps capture changes in Tennessee cities.