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- GAY STREET
- GAY KNOXVILLE TRAVEL GUI
- GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
- 116 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
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Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment.
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Gay Street is home to art galleri, historic theaters, the East Tennsee History Center and more – wh many buildgs listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. Gay Street was the se of the 1796 Constutnal Conventn that rulted the foundg of the state of Tennsee, and was a fol pot for the early polil activy of both the cy and the state of Tennsee. On the eve of the Civil War, Gay Street was the se of simultaneo Unn and Conferate recg ralli.
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Durg the Civil War, Gay Street saw some early vlence, a fatal shootg of a Unnist monstrator, days after the firg on Ft.
William Sanrs died as the rult of wounds the Lamar Hoe on Gay. After the war, Gay Street saw extensive mercial velopment as railroad nstctn brought an dtrial boom to Knoxville.
By 1850, Gay Street was home to three-fourths of Knoxville's mercial activy.
116 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
In 1854, Gay Street beme Knoxville's first paved road. Almost all public visors to Knoxville ma an appearance on Gay Street. Durg the Civil War, Andrew Johnson was shot at when he gave a pro-Unn speech on Gay Street.
Others who were seen on Gay Street at one time or another were prohibnist Carrie Natn, Socialist ndidate Eugene V.