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19 unusual facts about Knox County


3rd Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry

The 3rd Tennessee Infantry was organized at Flat Lick, Kentucky from December 1861 through January 1862 and mustered in for a three year enlistment.

Alfred Babcock

In 1850, Babcock moved to Illinois and settled in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois where he continued the practice of his profession until his death in 1871.

Curtis Shake

Born in Harrison Township, Knox County, Indiana, he studied at Vincennes University where he was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity, graduating in 1906.

Donald L. Moffitt

Moffitt previously served as Knox County Treasurer from 1984 to 1993, Knox County Board Chairman from 1982 to 1984, Knox County Board member 1978 to 1982, Knoxville, Illinois Alderman 1977 to 1978, Mayor of the City of Oneida, Illinois from 1972 to 1975, and an Oneida Alderman from 1971 to 1972.

Eastern Egg Rock Island

Eastern Egg Rock Island is an island in the Town of St. George in Knox County in the U.S. state of Maine.

Gale Schisler

Born Darwin Gale Schisler on a farm in Knox County, Illinois, he graduated from Abingdon High School in 1952, served in the United States Air Force from 1952–1955, and graduated from Western Illinois University in 1959.

H. Ogden Wintermute

After Wintermute's death, these became the property of the Knox County Historical Society in Ohio.

Henry Vanderburgh

He was appointed a commissioner for the licensing of Merchants, Traders and Tavernkeepers for Knox County, Indiana in 1792.

Jeffrey Evangelos

He was elected in November 2012 to represent District 49, which includes the towns of Cushing, Union, Warren and his residence in Friendship, all of which are in Knox County.

Karns High School

Karns High School is a public high school in the Karns community of Knox County, Tennessee administered by the Knox County Schools public school district.

Knox County, Missouri

Terry Joyce, collegiate football All-American and professional football player.

Knox County, Tennessee

With the success of Burnside's troops in the Knoxville Campaign, and especially during the decisive Battle of Fort Sanders, Knox County remained under Union control for the duration of the Civil War.

Mitchell W. Stout

Stout, aged 20 at his death, was buried in Virtue Cemetery, Concord, Tennessee.

Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky

The Owens House in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, is a Queen Anne house which was built by John Allen Owens in 1894.

Slaugenhopia

Slaugenhopia was found from the San Angelo Formation within the Kahn Quarry of Driver Ranch in Knox County, Texas.

Supreme Court of Indiana

In December 1816 Jonathan Jennings, Indiana's first governor, nominated John Johnson of Vincennes Knox County; James Scott of Charlestown Clark County; and Jesse Holman of Aurora Dearborn County, to serve as the first panel of judges on the Indiana Supreme Court.

Terry Joyce

Following graduation from Knox County high school in 1972 Joyce attended Highland Community College (Kansas), Missouri Southern State and Wichita State University.

Whitehead Island

Whitehead Island is an island in St. George, Knox County, Maine.

WKNX-TV

Both share its studios on Cogdill Road in unincorporated Western Knox County.


David Grant Colson

Born in Yellow Creek (now Middlesboro, Kentucky), Knox (now Bell) County, Kentucky, Colson attended the common schools and the academies at Tazewell and Mossy Creek, Tennessee.

Holston Formation

Among the notable buildings where Tennessee marble is used as a building stone are two in Washington, D.C.: the National Gallery of Art, which uses stone from Knox and Blount counties, and the United States Capitol, which has stairways constructed from Hawkins County marble.

Southwestern Indiana

1 After Ohio, Patoka, Wabash, and White Rivers or
six including the Little Wabash, and Embarras Rivers
all of which join along the boundaries Knox, Gibson
or Posey Counties.

Tennessee State Route 168

John Sevier Highway, is an east to west secondary highway in Knox County, Tennessee, that is 18.1 miles (29.2 km) long.