Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-20
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The lands enun Grated below are beng
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
low figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. r. 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 200 inhabitants,
three stores, telegraph station and ost-otfice,
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. RI, 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-oitice.
They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So RR., half
mile east of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil aud 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 1880, has many social adyan-
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 or
business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stores
and boarding houses, and promises to be a
fiourisblng town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, 800
feet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise several
tracts lying west of Rugby, in Morgan and
Fentress Countless as well as all their territory
between Rugby and Scdgemoor and Robin S
Dep6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lands are
traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike,
a 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, i'll winter, only line of traffic from
the G. 5. r. r. to Jamestown, Livingston,
Celina and Byrdstown, respectively the county
seats of Fentress, Overton, Clay and 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