The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-03
TAzEwELL, VA.
1t Is an Educational and Residential
Center

1t Is an Educational and Residential
Center.
TAzEwELL, Va, Aug. Speoiall-
This being the first Of a series of letters
from Tazewell formerly Tazewell Court
House) 1t way be we'll to open by giving
your readers some information as to the
location and natural advantages Of the
town and Immediately surrounding
country, its products, progress and pros
poets. !
We are on the line of the Clinch Val
ley division Of the Norfolk and Western
railroad system, nineteen miles west of
Graham, which IS virtually the junction
OF the New River Ohio extension, Pea
hontas and Clinch Valley divisions, in
the midst of the most fen tile and beauti-
ful county ever created by the giver of
all that is good and perfect. Than this
country, not only down the Clinch Val.
ley, but the whole region from Tiptop
in this county, to Elk Garden, in Russell
county, better has never been trod by
man. 1t is rich and produces grain,
fruit and vegetables of all sorts.
1t is as fine grape country as could
be desired, vines and fruit being always
free from blight and blemish, and the
yield large. The principal, and, bore
tofore, almost the sole occupation of the
farmer is stock raising. Horses equal
to those of Kentucky, and by the way,
this is limestone and blue grass coun-
try; cattle and sheep were raised and
shipped semi annually. Only two weeks
since Messrs. w. Il. and Saunders Gil
lespie shipped several car loads of lam bs
to the New York market, concerning
which the New York papers say: The
from Southwest Virginia, and the best
of that section from Tazewell county,"
ready market can be found at home
for all the wool produced in the country,
and, as is shown by the notice quoted
above, mutton will command q good
price in any market. Our beef cattle
are, for the most part, shipped directly
to Liverpool.
The people, while apparently lethargic
and uninterested in progress, doa great
deal in quiet way. There are from
six to ten new buildings in course of
erection, the most notable Of which is
the three story Masonic building, and
handsome building, which is being
erected by the Messrs Buston & Sons,
to be used and occupied by them as a
wholesale and retail grocery.
Some improvement of this kind is
continually going on and the town is
being built up. The town is not, and
it is to be hoped will not be- manufac
turing town; a more beautiful and de-
sirable residence town, could not be
found in the State. 1t appears to be in
bottom of valley, though nestled in
niche of tho mountains, and must be
seen from the summit of one of the
peaks surrounding it to appreciate the
full beauty Of it's situation.
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by few and surpassed by none. There
are three schools, the public school,
with high school extension; the fe-
male seminary, most efficiently presided
over by Mrs. R. S. Gillespie, lady of
long experience in this line, and last,
though by no means the least, the
Tazewell Male College, founded by it's
present principal. Rev. Mr.. Ferguson
These schools render this point OF
| unusual educational facilities, and we'll
worthy the attention of men of family,
on the lookout for a place to settle.