First Friday – Oct. 5 – at the Blount Mansion beginning at 5 p.m. will feature the Blount Impeachment Newspapers donated by the Walt er and Julia Pulliam Foundation.
\nBlount Mansion will have a specia l display of newspaper articles featuring the Blount Family and the Blount Mansion Association donated to our collection by the Walter and Julia Pul liam Foundation.
\nLight refreshments will be provided by the Blount
Mansion Association and the
\ngarden will be open late.
On d isplay will be William Blount’s Impeachment article from 1797. It was publ ished in the Massachusetts Mercury on July 14\, 1797. It contains a copy o f the letter by which William Blount was impeached by the United States Se nate.
\nBlount Mansion is the home of William Blount\, Tennessee’s o nly signer of the United States Constitution\, as well as where the Tennes see State Constitution was drafted and signed. It will be an opportunity f or all Knoxville citizens to learn about their vital historical importance in the founding of our government via historic newspaper articles in our resident collection.
\nThe Walter and Julia Pulliam Foundation\, who generously donated the newspaper collection\, has a collection of 900 his toric newspaper that date as far back to the 1600s. The resident collectio n is held at Lincoln Memorial University.
\nBlount Mansion is Knoxvi lle’s only National Historic Landmark.
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