Author: East Tennessee Land Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780265400739

Excerpt from Two Years of Harriman, Tennessee: Established by the East Tennessee Land Company, February 26, 1890 At Big Emory Gap, in Roane County, Tennessee, Where the Emory river breaks its way through Walden's Ridge, after its rapid descent from the Cumberland Plateau, it was. Ordained by nature that a town should be. Col. Byrd, who here held large ownership of land, always thus insisted, and died firm in such faith. Here, with coal close at hand on the west and 011 the north, and with iron near by on the east and within ten miles to the south, there was every essential condition for the establishment of a city with the purest Water supply, the best natural drainage, picturesque surroundings, admirable climate. And here the East Tenn essee Land Company located Harriman, within a crescent formed by the Emory river, between the Cincinnati Southern Railway on the west'and the Walden's Ridge division of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway on the north; fifty miles west of Knoxville, via this latter line; eighty miles north of Chattanooga, and 255 miles south of Cin cinnati, via the Cincinnati Southern Railway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.