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A Concise Statement of the Financial, Commercial and Manufacturing Interests of this City; Its Climate, and the Magnificent Scenery of Its Surroundings; Its Mineral, Marble and Timber Interests, as Well as a Complete Memoranda of the Laws of Tennessee, and Other Matters of Interest to Home-seekers and Capitalists. By H. M. Branson. Knoxville, Tenn.: Printed at Tribune Job Office. |
Introduction
History is largely a record of man's search for a better land.
To find somewhere upon the globe a home where the toil for existence would not be one constant struggle, where enjoyment of the pleasures of life would be least interrupted, has been a desire common to all generations of men.
During this ceaseless quest of centuries nearly every part of the habitable globe has been visited and explored; careful measurements of the surface have been made and the deserts and fertile spots have been assigned their places upon the charts of the world.
But little remains to be done in our time except to further the comparisons already begun, and by these comparisons to aid each other in finding the Better Land.
Americans proudly speak of the United States as the best country in the world, and so it is, but some sections are as much superior to others as the whole is superior to all other countries of the earth.
Many of the leading writers of the day freely admit that the part of the United States with the greatest future is the territory bounded on the West, North and East by the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Potomac rivers, and on the South by the Atlantic Ocean. Subsequent developments will show the wisdom of this assertion.
Within this Southern territory there is one particular spot which outranks all the other divisions, both in point of natural wealth and salubrity of climate.
This place is the City of Knoxville and its surrounding country, the Great Valley of East Tennessee.
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