Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-17
] SKIRTS TEN MILES OF FRONTAGE. on ,It'f
GIAClHsATI SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR DEP0TS LOCATED ON IT.

Inc ianuS enumerated DelOW are Deln8
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
lou 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 Derots; 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 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 pest-otfice.
They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market. shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R.. half
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 be sold for farming.
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts Of a
size to suit purchasers.
Founded in 1881, 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 or
] business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stores
and boarding houses, and promises to be a
flourishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, 1900
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 and Robin s
Dep6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lands arc
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
q lands of the Board. They are situated on the
= direct and in winter, only line Of traffic from
Q the C. S. r. r. to jamestown, Livingston
n Cclna and Byrdstown, respectively the county
!, seats of Fentress, Overton, Clay and Pickett
II Counties.
II CONCLUSION.
e The past season has been emnently success
:. full as regards all farming and gardenin.
: operations. the crops being invariably full ant
of of excellent quality. We invite all interested
persons to correspond with settlers now upoI
ot the ground.
81 Maps and plans can be seen at the Board
,r Office on Central Avenue.
Intending Settlers will be most literally
dealt with, and any information cheerful!
given by
ROBERT WALTON,
RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN