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 (14574450599)

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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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VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 49 inland city with good society, fine schoolsand a well-supported college. All thesecane-brake towns were settled by richplanters, and were the abodes of muchrefinement and luxury. Many of themare now stirring, active, business cen-tres, with handsome residences, goodchurches, and universally fine schools. establishments, and excellent commer-cial facilities; two cotton presses, oilmill, cotton factory, and excellent publicschools. It has many elegant resi-dences, good hotels, handsome churches,and does a splendid business. The typical Southern city home isseen here. Large two-story houses,
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ON THE ROAD TO CALERA. SELMA. This city, the centre of a large cornand cotton section, has five lines ofrailway and ten thousand inhabitants,and is situated on a beautiful plateau ofthe north bank of the Alabama river,two hundred miles above Mobile. It iseligibly located where the healthy pineregion touches the eastern part of theblack cotton lands. It receives annu-ally about one hundred thousand balesof cotton. It has several manufacturing with wide hall ways, and broad verandahs,set well back in large yards filbd withshrubs and flowers. The kitchen, ser-vants quarters, stables, and chickenhouse, occupy separate portions of thewhole square devoted to the uses of onefamily residence. The River System of Alabamais one of the noblest on the continent,it comprehends the Tennessee, the Ala-bama, the Tombigbee, the Black War-rior, the Coosa and their tributaries. 50 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND