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Directory of Knoxville and
Suburbs 1876-7 To Find a Name You Must Know How to Spell It. Price, $2.50. Haddock & Seymour, Publishers - Knoxville, Tenn. - May, 1876 Printed by the Whig and Chronicle Printing Company, 1876. |
Introduction
We can not close this work without returning our sincere thanks to the press, the merchants, manufacturers, and the citizens of Knoxville generally, for their liberal patronage and valuable assistance rendered us in obtaining information so essential to the compiling of it -- the many classes to be interviewed, and the varied interests, characters and conditions, renders the completion of a satisfactory directory a difficult, undertaking. We do not claim to have reached perfection, the very nature of the work is foreign to the idea. Slight errors will naturally creep into a book of this kind, but we have used our utmost endeavors, to make it as perfect as the nature of it would admit, and have devoted our whole time and energies to that end. We trust we have succeeded in producing a work that will prove beneficial and satisfactory to our patrons, and one that will warrant us in presuming upon them for a continuation of the many favors already extended, in our future volumes, as it is our purpose to continue this work from time to time, as the growth of the city may demand. We have every reason to believe that Knoxville is destined to be an important commercial center at no distant day, judging from the rapid increase made since the close of the war, the population having more than doubled, and in the way of improvements, and fine store-houses, the wholesale trade established, the developments made in manufacturing, mining, &c., within so short a time, can scarcely be realized.
The surrounding country and soil is of the richest character, the health of the city remarkably good. Lying as it does in the valley among mountain hills, renders it a desirable place of residence in summer, and its geographical position being such as to make it agreeable in winter. The soil is most fertile and adapted to the production of every variety of cereals, vegetables and fruits, and yields abundantly with the smallest amount of labor; the range is all that could be desired for raising stock-cattle and hogs of a superior class for market. Her facilities for transportation are good, the river is navigable the greater part of the year for steamboats, and the entire year round for flat-boats and barges; regular lines of steam at steamers ply the Holston and Tennessee rivers to Chattanooga below, and to Dandridge above, and all intermediate landings.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad runs two trains daily from Chattanooga to Bristol, connecting with all points North, South and East. The Knoxville and Ohio Railroad is completed to Caryville, a distance of thirty-eight miles, through a vast coal region, bringing coal to our doors at a mere nominal cost, thus rendering Knoxville one of the most desirable places for manufacturing in East Tennessee, and consequently destined, by her cheap fuel and immense water power, for a manufacturing city on a large scale. No reasonable doubt can exist that from the short space intervening, this road will connect with the Cincinnati Southern, opening up direct communication with the North and West.
The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad is completed to Maryville, 16 miles, and is destined to connect Knoxville with the coast at Charleston, S. C., thereby opening up a new and valuable market for the products of this section.
We have not the space in a work of this character to do justice to Knoxville, and can only present a few of the immense number of advantages this city presents to capitalists and others seeking an investment, or permanent settlement. The climate is good, as also good government, good schools, and churches of all denominations, and perhaps less rowdyism exhibited here than any other city of its size in the Union. Much could be said of the many advantages Knoxville possesses, but it is not our purpose to go into details; we must leave that to abler hands.
With renewed thanks for the many courtesies and patronage extended in our humble efforts. Truly yours, The Compilers
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