COMMUNITIES

If you ever go to a Farragut High School football game, you may hear the opposing team taunt the Admirals with chants of “Farragutless.” (Yes, this is the best they can come up with.) It’s a decent slogan and has the necessary rhythm that a football cheer needs. It isn’t all that accurate though. The town of Farragut is named ...

Site of a decisive Union victory over Confederate troops at the 1863 Battle of Fort Sanders, the hilltop streets of Fort Sanders, north of the University of Tennessee campus, now accommodate Victorian homes, many of them having been restored in recent decades. Students, musicians and artists frequently call this area home.

Fountain City is one of those neighborhoods that actually still feels like a neighborhood. Despite being intersected by bustling Broadway Avenue, the North Knoxville community manages to hold on to that small town feeling. Perhaps that’s because Fountain City was a small town until 1962, when it was annexed by Knoxville. Fountain City was established in 1788 by John Adair, ...