First railroad station in Johnson City photographed 1886
Image from 1886 in The Comet shows Johnson City’s first station built by East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, torn down about 1892 after Union Depot completion. Scene depicts muddy foreground with covered wagons from North Carolina delivering freight to local merchants, editor in wagon, and crowd on depot platform watching cars pass.
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East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
Hoss House
Arlington Hotel
Union Depot
Southern
North Carolina
Comet
Kildee
Jobe
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Sorreltop
Johnson City's Growth Ride Hailed at Rail Summit
Johnson City hosts a vision of regional prosperity as railroad advocacy centers on the C&O and related lines. Speakers praise coalfields, iron ore, and biomass, urging support for new routes to connect Ohio Valley to the Atlantic, and for hydropower to fuel mills and industry.
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Mast Tennessean
Col
W. A. Henderson
Southern Railway
Col. Henderson
Col. Brownlow
King's Mountain
Andrew Jackson
New Orleans
Zachery Taylor
Mexico
Wilder
Ohio River
Bes
Tam
Atlantic Ocean
C&o B
Catlettsburg
Big Sandy
Wig Sandy
Elkhorn City
Virginii Ine
Kentucky
Bitchorn City
Billhorn City
Mie Mountain
Hkchorn Cy
Dante
Clinch River
Big Sandy River
Clites
Pittsburg
Lick Creek
Spiers Ferry
Clinch
Powells Mountain
Speers Perry
Clinch Mountain
Holston River
Johnson City
Unaka Mountains
Sprice Pine
Bliue Ridge
Blige Ridge
McEloney Gaps
Mattoras
Chicago
Ocean
West Indias
Acherson
Gevat Southern Railway
Ohio Valley
Syaten
Aimerich
NL & OW
Johnson
Mali
East Tennessee
Coonnetiig
Bighind
Blue Mountains
Catawba
Yadkin
Tennesse
Cumberland
Boone
John Sevier
Shelby
Major Wadsworth
Board of Managers
M. J. Caples
C&o
Marion
Great Southern Railway System
Bostic
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Broad River
Spartanburg
S. C
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic Seaboard
Stormy
Campbell
King George
King’s Mountain
Alabama
Finley
Garter
Solomen
Ugg
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Gen. Wilder
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T. Wilder
Elty
MR. Caples
Chile
Board of Trade
Johinson City Commercial Club
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Ome
Blue Ridge
Catawba River
Distace
Unka Springs
Tenn
Rocky Mountains
Daniel Boone
C.C.& O.ry
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