Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-07-07
IT SKIRTS TEN MILES OF FRONTAGE ON the
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR DEp0TS LOCATED ON IT.

The lands enumerated below are being
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
lou figures and with def rred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. Il R.. west of
Glen Mary Station. About 5000 acres of
very desirable land fronting on the Gin. So
R r., is here laid out in 100 acre farms. No
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunbright or Glen Mary De- 6ts to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines. employing
200 men and with an out put of twelve car
loads per day. Glen Mary has 200 inhabitants.
three stores. telegraph station aud st-otiice
and is stopped at b, all trains, four passenger
and four freight daily. Good and ready market
with best shipping facilities for either ayrl-
cultural produce or timber aud tan bark
Also several fine tracts of laud fronting and
lying On the east side of the C.S. r r., and
halt mile south of Glen Mary.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R. R., west of
Sunbright. These lands lie directly south of
the above and are close to the thriving town
of Sunbright, with 200 inhabitants, two hotels,
Masonic Lodge SIX stores and post-otiice.
They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market, shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R. half a
mile east Of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturage.
Underlying this tract is the Robbins Coal
Vein. These lands will be sold for farming,
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts of a
size to suit purchasers.
RUGBY,
Founded in 1886, has many social advan.
tages, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Church
and School Building, Public Library with
5000 volumes. Large Commissary, Drug Store,
Weekly Newspaper, Post Office with two
mails per day, and also numerous good houses
and attractive villa residences. Choice build
ing lots are now being offered at very reasonable
prices.
Sedgemoor, the station for the above, has
also been land out in town lots and the Board
is prepared to offer liberal inducements to
persons settling there for manufacturing OF
business purposes, Sedgemoor has two stores
and boarding. houses, and promises to be a
flourishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, l,50C
feet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise several
tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan and
Fentress Counties, as well as all their territory
between Rugby and Sedgemoor and Robbln's
Der6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lands are
traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
agraded road. seven miles long and pronounced
the best dirt road in tennessee. and are, OIL
account of the superior communication, as
accessible to the. railroad as the less remote
lands of the Board. They are situated on the
direct and, in winter. only line OF traffic from
the c. 5. X. r. to jamestown, Livingston
Celna and Byrdstown, respectively the county
seats of Fentress, Overton, Clay aud Pickett
Counties.
CONCLUSION.
The past season has been eminently success
full as regards all farming and gardening
operations. the crops being invariably full all,
of excellent quality. We invite all INTERESTED
persons to correspond with settlers now upol
the ground.
Maps and plans can be seen at the Board
Office on Central Avenue.
Intending Settlers will be most LIBERAL,
dealt with, and any information cheerful,
gwen by
ROBERT WALTON,
| RUGBY, MORGAN co. TENN