Knoxville is a city located in the territory of Tennessee. It is the center of Knox County. The city of Knoxville is the largest city in eastern Tennessee. The population is 183,546 people. Knoxville is known by its nickname Marble City. This is due to the fact that in the twentieth century the town had many careers with pink marble, which is exported to all over the country. National Gallery of Art in Washington is made of marble of Knoxville. Knoxville was known as the capital of underwear in the thirties of the twentieth century. At that time more than twenty textile mills were working in the city of Knoxville. In the second half of the twentieth century factories closed doors. The first people who settled in the area where today is located Knoxville, arrived in these parts a thousand years before Christ. Since that time other mounds. In eighteenth-century Cherokee Indians became dominant tribe in eastern Tennessee. The first European explorers arrived in the area in the late seventeenth century. This was the expedition of Henry Timberlake, who traveled to villages Overhill along the river Tennessee, was pleasantly surprised by the deep waters of the river in the area. End of the French Indian War caused a wave of settlement in the region. However, as the Cherokee Indians not sell this part of the land, settlers illegally residing in the area. U.S. Congress issued a warrant for the deportation of illegal settlers in 1785, but this is not successful.
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