Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-02-07
SKIRTS TEN MILES or FRONTAGE on THE
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
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The lands enumerated below are being
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
lou figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. h. 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 Der6ts; to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employing
200 men and with All OUTPUT OF twelve car
loads per day. Glen Mary has zoo inhabitants,
three stores, telegraph station and post office,
and is stopped at by all trains, four passenger
and four freight daily. Good and ready market,
with best shipping facilities for either agri-
cultural produce or timber and 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 inhabitants, two hotels,
Masonic Lodge, six stores and pCst-otiice.
They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market shipping and especially
laundering 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
Vein. These lands will he sold for farming,
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts Of a
size to suit purchasers.
RUGBY.
Founded in 1885,, has many social advan-
tages. viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Church
aud 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, ha.
also been laid out in town lots, and the Boart
is prepared to offer liberal inducements tt
persons settling there for manufacturing Of
business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stores
and boarding houses, and promises to be
tiourlshng town in the near future. III,
, C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, l,5Ot
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 Robin
Dep6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lands ar
traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
graded road. seven miles long and pronounce
the best dirt road in Tennessee. and are, OIL
account OF the superior communication, a
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 fror
| the C.S. X. R. to jamestown, Livingston
Cellua and Byrdstown, respectively the count
, seats of Fentress, Overton, Clay and pickle,
Counties.
? CONCLUSION.
The past season has been eminently success
, full as regards all farming and gardenin
) operations, the crops being invariably full an
4 Of excellent quality. We invite all intereste
e persons to correspond with settlers now upo
the ground.
4 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
I ROBERT WALTON,
RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN