Ghost Walking the Streets of Knoxville: A Section of Walnut Street
Walk along Walnut Avenue between Union Avenue and Summit Hill Drive today and you’ll find that it’s a relatively unremarkable spot. But it was once the home of one of the city’s respected couples, Peter and Henrietta Kern, who lived here in the late 1800s within spitting distance of the hustle and bustle of their retail emporium on the southwest corner of Market Square. The Girl’s High School would be built next door to the Kern’s, and later a string of retail shops, including George Loo’s hand Laundry and Greenlee’s Bicycle Shop thrived here during the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.
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