Hand-Book of Tennessee

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...and fifty years who have not been excused for physical disability. Overseers of roads are appointed by the commissioners. A portion of the road tax may be paid in work at rates fixed by law. Under the operations of this law our public roads have greatly improved during the last twelve months. MANUFACTURING. Tennessee 'possesses advantages tor manufacturing industries which must soon give her a prominent position as a manufacturing State. Her abundance of coal, iron, timber, and her superabundant water power; her contiguity to the great cotton fields of the South, taken in connection with the salubrity and mildness of her climate stamp her as a field well adapted for the development of manufacturing enterprise. In point of fact, notwithstanding the unsettled financial policy of our State has for years past greatly retarded development in this direction, many enterprises of great practical utility have been inaugurated, and by their success have demonstrated that manufactures in Tennessee will pay. Now that the odium of repudiation has been lifted from our State, we may confidently anticipate that an influx of capital and of skilled labor will soon give an impetus to manufacturing industry such as Tennessee has never before witnessed. So far Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville are the principal manufacturing points in the State. Educational. Tennessee enjoys peculiar advantages for the higher education of the youth of both sexes. The following universities are located within her limits: Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Tennessee University, Knoxville; Wesleyan University, Athens; Cumberland University, Lebanon; University of the South, Sewanee; Southwestern University, Clarksville; Southwestern Baptist University, Jackson; Fisk University (colored), Nashvil...