. 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 . Ihave ever honored with my appetite. KNOXVILLE is a flourishing city, with 15,000 inhab-itants ; handsome residences, fine publicand private schools, a white marble postoffice, several State institutions, the Ten-nessee University, and a climate theperfection of healthfulness. The viewfrom the grounds of the university is re-markably fine. The peaks of the Cum-berland, the Clinch and t
. 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 . Ihave ever honored with my appetite. KNOXVILLE is a flourishing city, with 15,000 inhab-itants ; handsome residences, fine publicand private schools, a white marble postoffice, several State institutions, the Ten-nessee University, and a climate theperfection of healthfulness. The viewfrom the grounds of the university is re-markably fine. The peaks of the Cum-berland, the Clinch and the Smoky arein the distance, and, five miles east, thelovely French Broad River empties itsdancing current into the Tennessee. Knoxville dates back into the secondhalf of the eighteenth century, and has GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 59 an interesting history. Its site wasoriginally a fort, built for the protectionof settlers against the Cherokees. The city is the centre of numeroushealth resorts—Montvale Springs, Leas Jellico, on tne Kentucky State Line,and a connection with the Louisville andNashville Railroad. This road feels itsway through a lovely section toward thedistant Ohio. It pierces the heart of a. 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
Size: 1385px × 1805px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectsummerr, bookyear1883
