Robert Parker, one of the owners of Wheatlands, Sevier County’s best-known antebellum home, will talk on “Rediscovering Wheatlands Plantation” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Seymour Library. Admission is free. Parker and co-owner John Burns have extensively researched the plantation’s history and are constantly finding new facts about the Boyds Creek property. The talk is part of the Friends of Seymour Library’s “How We Live: Then and Now” series. For more information, call the library at 865-573-0728.
Stories in this Week's Focus
- The Knoxville Focus for August 24, 2026
- Mayor-elect Henderson names Doug ‘High Tax’ Harris to staff
- Seymour Volunteer Fire Department updates community on new station
- The Gentleman From New York: Kenneth B. Keating
- Old Gray Cemetery
- Cherokees give their head coach his first win
- The Knoxville Focus for August 17, 2026
- UDO Postponed
- Proposed Chilhowee Park changes draw questions
- The Reece Committee III
