Sequoyah Hills, Tennessee

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Sequoyah Hills, Tennessee, is a neighborhood in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. One of the oldest neighborhoods in Knoxville, it is located in a bend of the Tennessee River (Fort Loudoun Lake) between Kingston Pike and Cherokee Boulevard in west Knoxville.

The first housing development in the area was known as Talahi, which encompasses a portion of the current neighborhood. The neighborhood design included distinctive parks, fountains and sculptures. The development chose Cherokee names for the streets such as Kenesaw, Tugaloo, Iskagna, Taliluna and Keowee. Robert L. Foust, the real estate developer and partner of the Alex McMillan Company, began promoting the area in 1929; however, the stock market crash in the same year resulted in the Alex McMillan company being forced into receivership. Foust committed suicide a few years later.

Notable residents of Sequoyah Hills have included Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., Alex Haley, Cormac McCarthy, Patricia Neal, Anthony Quayle, Robert R. Neyland, and David Keith.

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