Tuesday, August 21, 1900: One hundred and twenty-six years ago today, The Knoxville Sentinel reported two short news stories with datelines from Johnson City. The first one reported that “Capt. W. A. Dickinson, the proprietor of Piedmont Hotel went to Abingdon, Va., to attend the races there. He took ‘Tasco’ and two other horses with which to compete fo…
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