Maury County, the Blue-Grass Region of Tennessee (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Maury County, the Blue-Grass Region of Tennessee Maury, the third in wealth and population among the counties of Tennessee, being exceeded only by Shelby and Davidson, whose wealth lies principally in the cities of Memphis and Nashville, is rapidly becoming the cynosure of a large class seeking salubrity of climate, a prolific soil, and the concomitant advantages that will insure a reasonable degree of healthful existence, and at the same time obviate the disadvantages incident to a life in the Northern States or extreme South. The essential requisites to physical vigor and pecuniary prosperity are abundantly supplied in Maury County, as nature has certainly smiled her sweetest upon this chosen spot, and dispensed her blessings with a prodigality that has made this country equal in beauty and fertility to the celebrated valleys of the Schuylkill, Shenandoah and Genessee, and the farfamed blue-grass region of Central Kentucky. This county was formed in 1807, and embraces the townships of Columbia, Williamsport, Hampshire, Culleoka, Hurricane Switch, Bigbyville, Mount Pleasant, Santa Fe, Spring Hill, Neapolis and Carter´s Creek, with a total population of 40,000, of which number about 25,000 are white and the remainder colored. The surface of the country is generally undulating, occasionally breaking into hills, with here and there one endeavoring to assume the dignity of a mountain, by reaching its crest far above the others; over this area are profusely scattered rich and fertile farms and thrifty communities, while hillsides and valleys are covered with a rich carpeting of blue grass - so valuable for the propagation of superior live stock. The border hills of the county are generally of freestone or sandstone, while the body of the county is limestone at a depth of from 2 to 6 feet below the surface. Duck River, flowing through the county from east to west, is the principal water course, but into this flows the Fountain, Bigby, Silver, Knob, Carter, Snow, Rutherford, Globe, Leipers, Catheys and Turkey creeks, some of which afford excellent water power for the twenty-odd saw mills and grist mills in the county propelled in this manner. These creeks ramify in countless directions, and combined with numerous springs, almost every farm in Maury County has running water upon it, through these agencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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