Powell Station founded as Menifee’s Fort

Powell Historical

Ron Evans had a surprise guest at the Oct. 28 meeting of the Powell’s Station History Society. Jon D. Smith, a descendant of William Menifee, the brother of Powell’s founder, John Menifee, dropped by with a really neat family photograph and his personal research into his family’s genealogy. Smith said family names like Collier and…

A death on Clinton Highway

Powell Historical

James Agee won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with “A Death in the Family,” and now a local author is writing a biography, “Rufus,” that includes Agee’s early years in Knoxville and the impact of the 1916 Clinton Highway wreck that killed his father. Paul F. Brown said Agee (1909-1955) spent one-third of his…