A Zoom Brown Bag Program by Joe Jarret
May 5, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Join the East Tennessee Historical Society on May 5, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. via Zoom as we welcome Dr. Joe Jarret, Attorney at Law and Lecturer with the University of Tennessee’s Department of Political Science, as he tells the story of the United States Custom House and Post Office, which serves today as the East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville.
A federal custom house was traditionally a building that housed government officials who oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into...