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Kingsport: Painting the Town II
Once you start looking for painted brick, you just can’t stop finding it! That’s what happened to me after the City Archivist challenged me to find the examples of this early Kingsport form of marketing.
Kingsport: The Mead Paper Co.
A new archives exhibit has been installed at the Kingsport Public Library and this one relates to the paper making industry that has been such a crucial part of the town’s economic development.
Kingsport: Gaines-Anderson House
This post includes updated information as of April 9, 2014. Ambrose Gaines (1763-1840) was a nephew of James and Thomas Gaines, land agents for Edmund Pendleton. In the 1790s, they sold their nephew 273 acres of the Pendleton Land Grant of 1750.
Kingsport: Painting the Town
Before neon, there was PAINT! Beautiful, expressive paint. Kingsport merchants once announced their locations and advertised their wares by painting this information on the brick facades of downtown buildings.
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Kingsport: School Days
It’s a new semester and to celebrate that I have installed a new exhibit on the main floor of the Kingsport Public Library: classroom portraits from the 1950s through the 1970s. The archives is asking for your help to identify … Continue reading
Kingsport: Newsletter Art
I am still working on the Altrusa Records for the Kingsport Archives. The files are processed now and I have gone back to doing some conservation work on the scrapbooks. In the mean time, I am absolutely thrilled to share … Continue reading
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Kingsport: Women at Work
Updated 5 November 2013: The Kingsport Archives has decided to remove the “Women at Work” collection from HistoryPin and instead install it as a board on Pinterest. The clarity of the photographs and the platform for viewing the collection is … Continue reading
Kingsport: A Tour for Archives Month
October is American Archives Month! At the Archives of the City of Kingsport, we have several activities going on, including four new exhibits to see, the Friends of the Archives Annual Meeting and Lecture on October 29, and big additions to our … Continue reading
Kingsport: Fire Department
The summer I turned ten years old, I broke my arm on the Fourth of July. My parents took me to the emergency room across town late at night. There was another patient close by, a burn victim, who had been brought … Continue reading
Field Trip: Fort Robinson
Fort Robinson was a pre-Revolutionary War fort in the area of the South and North Fork Holston River confluence. There has been much speculation on its location since no part of the fort remains, today. In the Kingsport Archives last … Continue reading
