. Historic towns of the Southern States. ly supported,while the State University is the pride of theintelligent people of Tennessee. The StateDeaf and Dumb School and a branch of theAsylum for the Insane are located there, andKnoxville College for the education of negroesis one of the best of its kind. Knoxville contributed a handsome buildingto the White City of the Nashville Centen-nial, and afterwards the women of the city se-cured the removal of the building to Knoxville,where, at a point of vantage, it was re-erectedand dedicated to the cause of womans advance-ment and to all the Muses. K
. Historic towns of the Southern States. ly supported,while the State University is the pride of theintelligent people of Tennessee. The StateDeaf and Dumb School and a branch of theAsylum for the Insane are located there, andKnoxville College for the education of negroesis one of the best of its kind. Knoxville contributed a handsome buildingto the White City of the Nashville Centen-nial, and afterwards the women of the city se-cured the removal of the building to Knoxville,where, at a point of vantage, it was re-erectedand dedicated to the cause of womans advance-ment and to all the Muses. Knoxville is an old town as things go inAmerica, yet much of it is new. Its populationhas increased tenfold within thirty-five years. Knoxville 475 It is therefore, in the main, modern m con-struction. In proportion to population it hasby far the largest wholesale trade among theSouthern cities. It enjoys a high degree oprosperity. It is the industrial, commercialand educational center of East Tennessee, andits future is full of NASHVILLE THE ADVANCE-GUARD OF WESTERN CIV-ILIZATION. By gates p. THRUSTON THE beautiful site upon which the city ofNashville stands must have been famousin prehistoric times. Its natural salt springnear the bank of the Cumberland River wasa noted resort of the Indian and years ago, the huge bones of a mastodonwere exhumed from the alluvial deposit uponits margin. Near the flowing spring was anancient cemetery of the long-vanished StoneGrave race, the mound-builders, of Tennessee,and upon the opposite bank of the river andin the adjacent valleys have been found notless than ten thousand rude stone cists con-taining their mortuary remains. These inter-esting memorials have yielded a vast store ofarchaeological treasures, illustrating their arts 477 478 Nashville and industries and telling a pathetic story ofaboriginal life in the valley of the Cumber-land. A race of Village Indians, probably akin tothe Pueblo Builders or Village Ind
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