Brianne Johnson Wright
City Archivist
Archives of the City of Kingsport
Kingsport Public Library and Archives
400 Broad Street
Kingsport, TN 37660
423-224-2559
BrianneWright@Kingsport.TN.gov
Archives of the City of Kingsport
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AWESOME BLOG
I love being able to see all these pictures when-ever I want to. You are doing a great job!
I recently moved back to Kingsport and was going through some things I had packed away. I have an item with a J. Fred’s sticker on the bottom. Do you know when that store closed? I was born in ’62 and I only remember it as Miller’s and what a thrill it was to go downtown with my mother. If I behaved, my treat was to ride the escalators. Thanks!
I do not know the answer to that off the top of my head so I will have to get back to you.
So good to have your presence back online and in the building! Great pictures. Have a good weekend.
My grandmother’s third husband was born and raised here. He had a terrible fear of storms. The story was that when he was a child there was a tornado that came in this area and literally cleared a hill off west stone drive of its trees. He lived down from the Netherland Inn road. The house is now torn down. Was there such a tornado in this area? It would have been somewhere between 1900 and 1930. I am just curious. Also, about the haunted tunnel along netherland inn road. My grandmother and her husband lived in his family home. She said that they also heard a baby cry and saw ghostly orbs at night.
There was tornado that occurred on March 15, 1933 in the Cherry Hill area of Kingsport.
Do you have a list of the members of the police department from around 1930 to 1933? I am doing some research on my family history. Thanks!
No, I am sorry but the archives does not have this information.
I was employed by Holston Defense Corporation on April 6, 1961. I retired January 1, 2000. Since then I have been compiling a list of HDC/HOW employees. The list is now about 2,400. I would like to share the information with people in the Kingsport area. Your archives seem the most logical place. I have other information that might be of interest.
Found an old book in my mother’s stuff (she is 90) that had been her older cousin’s. It doesn’t have a date and I am trying to find out when it was printed. It is Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens .It is an American Home Classics. It has a blue, with maybe orange design, cover. It is a little hard to tell. Down on the binder at the bottom, it say Sears. I believe he had it in school either late 1920′s or early 1930′s. Thanks for any help.