James Knox Polk, the first of ten children, was born on November 2, 1795 in a farmhouse ( possibly a " log " cabin ) in what is now Pineville, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County, just outside Charlotte.

* Purcell, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Johnson Township, Knox County, Indiana

The westernmost Shaker community was located at West Union ( called Busro because it was on Busseron Creek ) on the Wabash River a few miles north of Vincennes in Knox County, Indiana.

In 1881, the US returned of Knox County, Nebraska to the Ponca, and about half the tribe moved back north from Indian Territory.

* Knox County ( southwest )

* Concord, Knox County, Tennessee

* Samuel Knox ( 1756 – 1832 ), born in County Armagh, Presbyterian clergyman, school principal, and author.

Polk County is named for James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States.

Knox County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas.

The 1932 Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee, Orville Bullington, resided in Knox County and served as county attorney early in his career.

The following school districts serve Knox County:

* Knox City-O ' Brien Consolidated ISD ( partly in Haskell County )

The city of Goree in Knox County is the site of the annual Bobby Boatright Memorial Music Camp, an event for aspiring Western Swing musicians of all ages to showcase their musical talents.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County, Texas

* Knox County, Texas-Official site.

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* August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.

( Knox County Historical Committee ; East Tennessee Historical Society, 1946 ).

* Berne Historical Project has genealogy of Hilltown families including Knox

Selma passed into the hands of the Fornance family with the marriage of Knox's daughter Ellen Knox to Joseph Fornance, prominent attorney and Historical Society of Montgomery County president.

Drawing from An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by Robert Knox ( 1681 ).

* Thomas Francis Knox, First and Second Diaries of the English College, Douay: Historical Introduction ( London, 1877 )

* Info sourced from Knox Historical Society on place names in the area

Ambleside Homestead, in Olivebank Road, Ferntree Gully, was built in the 1890s and is now the base for the Knox Historical Society and a local history museum.

Notable community and retail sites in Ferntree Gully include the Cool Store ( Dorset Road ), the Knox Environment Society ( based at the rear of Ferntree Gully Secondary College, which closed at the end of 2006 ) and the Knox Historical Society ( based at Ambleside Historical homestead ).

( source: Knox Historical Society ) " The Basin " is shown on an 1868 survey plan, when settlers had taken licences or made freehold purchases of the land.

In 1921, a former member of Admiral Sims ' wartime staff, Captain Dudley W. Knox, was named head of the Office of Naval Records and Library and the Historical Section.

* Robert Knox MD, FRCSEd, FRSEd 1791-1862: The first Conservator of the College MuseumThe Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Historical Review, 2000.

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned since my Deliverance out of Captivity is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681.

January 22, 2009, marked the 50th anniversary of the Knox Mine Disaster, with an annual memorial mass at St. John's Catholic Church in Pittston Pennsylvania, and a ceremony held at the former St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Port Griffith, which is the site of a commemorative monument and a State Historic Marker, erected in 1999 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

*" Knox Mine Disaster " Pennsylvania Historical Marker

During the voyage Knox wrote the manuscript of An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, an account of his experiences on Ceylon, which was published in 1681.

Knox played a key role in creating the Naval Historical Foundation.

The official memorial to him is a large boulder with a placard attached located in front of the Knox County Historical Museum .< ref >

Historical home of Knox College at 1 Spadina Crescent

There were many others who tried to claim the copyright to the song, but his birthplace, in Mount Vernon, Ohio, has all of the history of Mr. Emmett, as does the Knox County Historical Society and The Woodward Opera House, also located in Mount Vernon.