Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-08-04
IT SKIRTS TEN MILES or FRONTAGE on the
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
-FOUR pEPOTS LOCATED ON IT.

The lands enumerated below are being
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
lou figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands Oh the Gin. So. II. 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 Del OTIS; to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employing
200 men and with an output Of twelve car
loads per day. Glen Mary has zoo inhabitants.
three stores, telegraph station aud post office
and is stopped at BY all trains, four passenger
and four freight daily. Good aud ready market
with best shipping facilities for either agr,-
cultural produce or timber aud tan bark.
Also several fine tracts OF land fronting and
lying on the east side OF the C.S.R.R., and
half 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 inha b,tants, two hotels.
Masonic Lodge, six stores and post -otfice
They are well watered and timbered, aud have
excellent market, shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. RR.. half q
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 he sold for farming.
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts OF II
size to suit purchasers.
RUGBY,
Founded in 1880, 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 laid 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
Aourishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there a siding, 500
feet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise severa
tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan ant
Fentress Counties, as well as all their territor,
between Rugby and Sedgemoor and Robbln',
Dep6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lands ar,
traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
a graded road. seven miles long and pronounced
the best dirt road in tennessee. aud are, OF
account Of the superior communication. al
accessible to the railroad as the less remot,
lands of the Board. They are situated on tn,
direct and, in winter. only line Of traffic frol,
the &. s. r. r. to Jamestown, Livingston
Celina and Byrdstown, respectively the count,
seats Of Fentress, Overton, Clay aud Picket
Counties.
CONCLUSION.
The past season has been eminently success
full as regards all farming and gardening
operations, the crops being invariably full ali
of excellent quality. We invite all intereste
persons to correspond with settlers now upo
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
given BY
ROBERT WALTON,
RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN