Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-13
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The IantisssapiSia teffi ao afs low are Loas
offered III tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
l0w ,fgHrcs and with def rid payments.
Board auds Oh the Gin So. r. r.. west Of
Glen Mary Station. About 1900 acres Of
very desirable land fronting Oh the Gin. So
R r.. is here laid out in 100 acre farms. No
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunhright or Glen Mary Del OTIS; to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines. employing
200 men and with all ut-put of twelve car
loads per day Glen Mary has 200 inhabitants,
three stores telegraph station and St-ottice,
and is stopped at b. all trains, four passenger
and four lreigh daily. Good and ready market
with best shipping facilities for either ayr-
cultural produce or timber and tan bark,
Also several fine tracts of land fronting and
lying on the cast side Of the C.S.R r., and
half mile south of Glen Mary
Board lands on the Gin. So. RI. west Of
Sunbrght. 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-oiiice
They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market, shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands OIL the Gin. So R.R.. half
mile east of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturage
| Underlying tins 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.
Founded in 1884,, has many social advan-
tages, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Church
and School Building, Public Library with
5000 volumes. Large Commi> sary, 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
tlourishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put In there siding, l,5O0
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 aud Robin s
Del OTIS 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 G. 5. X. X. to jamestown, Livingston,
Cehna 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 anc
of excellent quality. We invite all interested
persons to correspond with settlers how upon
+ 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