Alcoa TN – The Night Marauder Project

The Investigator

Victor Jonas Hultquist is known to some as “the father of Alcoa.” The mayor of Maryville, Sam Everett, had welcomed the Aluminum Company of America to build a new site in what was then called North Maryville in 1914. Just a year after that, Hultquist was transferred from the company’s New Kensington site to overseeContinue reading “The Investigator”

The Poes

Warning: this post includes details of a sexual assault. Clyde Poe was just 21 in December, 1924, and he and his wife Lora had been married a little over a year. He was listed as a laborer, a “hard working farmer,” in Alcoa. Clyde and Lora lived with their four month old baby boy nearContinue reading “The Poes”