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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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rail-way system, which stretches its iron armfrom Hagerstown Md., to Cleveland,Tenn.; and from thence its steel fingersto Memphis in the west, to Meridian inthe southwest, to Brunswick and Jack-sonville in the southeast. Together wesped onward through the picturesquemountain region of Northwest Georgia.This is one of the loveliest sections ofthe State, and being comparatively a terraincognita to tourists, is worthy a fullerdescription than my journal can give. Rapidly we climbed up among thehills, whose tree-crowned tops wereglowing in the rich morning sun, andwhence came the delightful, invigoratingbreezes that make this section famous asa pleasure and health resort. Passingthrough lovely valleys, along dashingstreams, by healthy villages, we swunginto the enterprising town of DALTON.The original name of this place wasCross Plains ; but it was changed in 1846to Dalton, in honor of a Vermont gen-tleman of that name. It is situated in 42 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS.
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THE PLATEAU AT CLEVELAND, TENN. the rich valley of the Connesauga River.Near by are several of the celebratedmineral springs. The famous CohuttahSprings, and the no-less noted Catoosa,bubble up their .health-giving watersamid wild and picturesque scenery. Dalton is a growing place and boastsof about 3,500 inhabitants. It does abusiness of more than a million dollars ;has seven prosperous churches, two col-leges and two fine hotels. Board isobtained at reasonable figures and theliving good. The place is an exceed-ingly attractive one. We pushed on — through Cohuttah,Varnells, State Line, Blue Spring—to CLEVELAND, TENN.,where — well up on the magnificent pla-teau, rising alongside the finest mountainranges east of the Mississippi—we waitedthe coming of our companions fromMemphis and the Southwest. Here will we rest until Tom andCharlie have read their journals ; thentogether we will speed northward towardthe Old Dominion. FROM MEMPHIS TO CLEVELAND, TENN., Along the Memphis and C

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