This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Knoxville Featured as a Key Railroad and Resource Hub
The article extols Knoxville as a major distributing point with railroad lines radiating nationwide. It highlights rich resources including marble, iron ore, coal fields in East Tennessee and Kentucky, brown ore deposits, limestone, water, and coke, plus timber and farm lands. The piece promotes Knoxville as a center for large hardwood iron manufacturing and mining power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Tennessee
Ken
Knoxville