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The Knoxville Cook Book, "Fore-Word."
The editors' foreword for The Knoxville Cook Book opens with the braggadocious claim that "Knoxville claims the best market southwest of Norfolk." Though bold, this claim was not without merit.
The Market House
The Market House
In 1897, four years before the publication of The Knoxville Cook Book, the city of Knoxville completed construction of a state of the art, multi-story brick Market House that adjoined City Hall on Market Square. It was in continual use until it was demolished in 1960 and replaced by a pedestrian mall.
The Knoxville Market House photographed in 1919.Image Published in "One Hundred and Fourteen Per Cent, Knoxville, Tennessee," Traveler's Protective Association Magazine, Vol. XIV, No. 7 (May 1920), p. 33.
Postcard image of the Market House as it would have appeared when it opened in 1897.Digitized by the Lib Cooper Knoxville Digital Postcard CollectionImage Courtesy The Knoxville History Project
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