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HISTORY
The heavily wooded, hilly neighborhood now called Forest Heights
has been a stable, attractive, and desirable residential area for over seventy
years. The present neighborhood is made up of four separate subdivisions
- Forest Hills, Forest Heights, Highland Hills and Highland Hills
Addition, bounded on the east just east of Forest Hills, to the south by
Sutherland, to the west by Highland Memorial Cemetary, to the north by
Interstate 40/75, and in its entirety was annexed by the City of Knoxville
in 1960.
Although the earliest homes of the area are from the 1920s and
1930s, most of the building is of the post World War II period. The
residents of this neighborhood were and are a diverse group of people who
have found the location, the natural beauty and the friendliness of their
neighbors an enticement to move here, to raise their families, and often
to remain and welcome their grown children back as new homeowners in the
neighborhood.
As Knoxville grew, especially towards the west, and as the
Interstate 40/75 was completed, Forest Heights had to adjust to the new
conditions. The quiet neighborhood was bisected by still narrow Forest
Heights Drive which had to bear almost constant heavy traffic to and from
the Interstate overpass. To preserve the neighborhood the Forest Heights
Neighborhood Association was formed in 1973. With dogged and determined
courage the FHNHA successfully fought to keep the overpass down when it was
demolished to allow the expansion of the Interstate in April 2001. The FHNA also
promotes the caring and preserving of the neighborhood through meetings,
dissemination of news, a safety watch, and an annual picnic.
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