The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line- the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk and Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia (14574607487)
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Title: The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line Shenandoah Valley Railroad Norfolk and Western Railroad Company East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway Company
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, Aldine press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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THE N. & W. RR. PASSENGER DEPOT AT NORFOLK. GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 27 Yard, and great wheezing ferry-boatscame and went between our side andPortsmouth. There were cotton ships,lumber ships, grain ships, passengerships, fishing ships, merchant ships andpleasure ships. If ships make a placethen Norfolk needs no architect. annually shipped to Northern markets.Back in the interior are endless forests,whence the city draws a lumber traderivaling any city in Maine. Above her isa grain and tobacco country, whence shereceives and handles vast supplies. Andher deep-water harbor has brought com-
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A PEEP THROUGH A NORFOLK GARDEN. NORFOLK was one of the earliest English settle-ments in Virginia. It has fought throughthree wars, bears yet the scars of two,and notwithstanding, holds up its headamong the most active and thrivingplaces in the land. As a business cen-tre, this city has few equals. Aroundit is a large territory carefully cultivatedas truck gardens, whence thousands ofcrates of vegetables and early fruits are merce and cotton together on herwharves. She has fine hotels, beautifulresidences, handsome churches, gooddrainage, excellent water supply, a de-licious climate and a peerless fish, vege-table and oyster market. She is con-nected with cities in the North by linesof magnificent steamers, with the Southcoast by the same means ; she has rail-roads running away from her down thecoast, and she is linked to the greatgrain sections of the West and South- 28 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND west and the snowy cotton fields of theSouth by the bands of steel that lie alongthe road-b
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