HALLS
Halls Crossroads is an unincorporated community in the state of Tennessee. As a northern suburb of nearby Knoxville, Halls is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area and within Knox County. The town takes its name from the Thomas Hall family which settled in the area in the late 18th century.

In 1785 the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill instructing the militiamen to cut and clear a road by the most eligible route to Nashville at least ten feet wide and fit for passage of wagons and carts. This road is now known as Emory Road and Tennessee State Route 131 in the Halls Crossroads area.

One of the earliest settlers was Thomas Hall who arrived in the valley around 1796 from Orange County, North Carolina. Hall married Nancy Hais Sept. 25, 1783 two years after his release from a British prisoner of war camp in Charleston, South Carolina. He fought for freedom and was captured by the British in the Siege of Charleston. For this service the U.S. government presented Hall a parcel of land. It is to this northern side of Black Oak Ridge that Hall settled.

Two generations later Thomas Hall’s grandson Pulaski went west during the California Gold Rush and settled on a ranch in Oregon. He returned to Halls and married Joyce Hall, Sept. 8, 1859. Pulaski and his family owned and operated one of the first businesses in the Halls area as early as 1860, a general store and inn as well as a blacksmith shop. The store was known as Halls Crossroads.

Halls High School was one of the first schools in the area, founded in 1916, the school was named for Pulaski Hall.

FOUNTAIN CITY
Fountain City is a neighborhood in northern Knoxville, Tennessee.   At the time of its annexation by the city of Knoxville in 1962, Fountain City was the largest unincorporated community in the United States with a population of approximately 30,000.

Upon annexation into the City of Knoxville, the suburb maintained its own identity with immense community pride. It remains a desirable place to work and to live. Fountain City is unique. It has a sense of its history, including places and people who made a difference in life within the community and beyond it.

The main road in Fountain City is Broadway, a section of U.S. Highway 441 which connects Fountain City to Halls (where it becomes Maynardville Highway) to the north and downtown Knoxville to the south. Interstate 640 passes along Fountain City's southern boundary, and Interstate 75 passes through the western part of the community. Other important roads include Merchants Drive/Cedar Lane, which connects Broadway to I-75, and Tazewell Pike (part of State Highway 331), which connects Fountain City with Gibbs to the northeast.