How Beaver Ridge got a New Name
The community was formerly called Beaver Ridge. However, in 1913 when the first high school building was erected in Karns, the school was named in honor of Professor Thomas Conner Karns (1845–1911), the first Superintendent of Public Instruction for Knox County.
Later, in the 1950s, the community voted to officially change its name from Beaver Ridge/Byington to Karns.
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