Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-05-12
IT SKIRTS TEN MILES OF FRONTAGE on the
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD, WITH
FOUR DEP1fS LOCATED on IT.

The lands enumerated below are being
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
ioW figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. r. r., west of
Glen Mary Station. About 1900 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 and post -ofiice,
and is stopped at by all trains, four passenger
and four freight daily. Good and ready market
with best shipping facilities for either agr-
cultural produce or timber and n-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 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. RR., half a
mile east Of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturage.
Underlying this tract is the Robbins Coal
yein These lands will he sold for farming,
numbering and mining purposes in tracts OF a
size to suit purchasers.
Founded in 1881, has many social advan-
~,
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
furnishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, l,50O
feet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise several
tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan and
rentrtSS OountitS, as well as all tnelr territory
between Rugby and Sedgenoor and Robbins
Del6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lands are
traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
graded road, seven miles long and pronounced
the best dirt road in Tennessee, and are, on
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.S. r. X. to Jamestown, Livingston
Cehna 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 and
OF excellent quality. We invite all interested
persons to correspond with settlers now upon
the ground.
Maps and plans can be seen at the Boards
Office on Central Avenue.
Intending Settlers will be most literally
dealt with, and any information cheerfully
given by
ROBERT WALTON,
RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN.