Ghost Walking the Streets of Knoxville: The Dr. John Mason Boyd Memorial Arch on Gay Street
The steps of the Dr. John Mason Boyd memorial arch, located on the southwest corner of Gay Street at Main, offer a fine perch to ponder bygone times in this old section of downtown. Dr. Boyd enjoyed a long and respectable career here, known in his early days as a “horse and buggy” doctor, and before the Civil War, he began to specialize in the field of obstetrics.
Today, the memorial arch stands as a permanent memorial to Dr. Boyd, but it also serves as portal to heart of the old town during the early decades of the 1800s. It’s a place that has so much history to it, and yet, despite the many…
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