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Title: The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line Shenandoah Valley Railroad Norfolk and Western Railroad Company East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway Company
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, Aldine press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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SUMMERING ON THE FRENCH BROAD. Springs, Mount Nebo Springs—all pop-ular places, and resorted to by many peo-ple from the extreme South. From Knoxville the Knoxville andOhio Division of the East Tennessee,Virginia and Georgia Railroad leads to country untramped by the tourist, unseenby the artist. Here is an independentreserve for some enthusiastic ex-plorer. Shortening transportation distancesbetween the West and the Southeast— 6o VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND
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THE RAPIDS—FRENCH BROAD RIVER over previously established lines — fromioo to 250 miles, this newly completedline will, henceforth, prove a most potentfactor in Southern railway service, andsupply a channel of communication longand greatly needed. Almost along the line of railroad,as we speed toward Morristown, ran the great Cherokee war trail eighty yearsago. How quiet and peaceful now isthe region once terrorized by the war-whoop, and devastated by the torch andtomahawk ? On every side are the well-kept fieldsof wheat and corn ; the orchards of ap-ples and peaches, the meadows of grassand clover, the tree-hid farm houses,and, the dominie adds, the dearlittle churches, like pious nuns at prayer. * We pass by Strawberry Plains, NewMarket and Mossy Creek—this last placehas a river all its own. The stream onwhich it stands is only four miles long,yet it comes with such power from itssulphur spring as to turn the wheels oftwelve mills and factories. A DEFLECTION INTO WESTERN NORTH C

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