Nashville — Queen City of the South 



Nashville, the capital city of Tennessee, and the queen cit) of 

 the South, is a city of homes, educational institutions and indus 

 trial establishments. The wonderful strides it has made in tin- 

 way of population, showing that its superior advantages are 

 highly appreciated by those seeking homes, are shown 1>\ the fad 

 that while in 1900 the number of people residing within the 

 porate limits was 80,681, in 1906 it was 164,172, an increase of 

 more than 100 per cent. An inspection of a map <>f the Mi 

 sippi Valley discloses the fact that Nashville lies nearer the cen 

 ter of population, rail and water transportation, and the supplies 

 for subsistence than any other city in that valley. It is about 

 midway between the Great Lakes lying on the north, and the 

 Gulf of Mexico on the south, and aboul half-wa) between the 

 Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the arid plain- on the west. It 



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can draw subsistence from a larger area in a shorter time and at 

 a cheaper rate than any other city in the South. Tenn< 

 touches on its borders eight other States, and. therefore, the pro- 

 ductions of those States are readily available. It- several systems 

 of railways, with immediate connection-, give an easy outlet with- 

 in from fourteen to nineteen hour-, to the < mlf ^i Mexico, at Mo- 

 bile, Pensacola, and New Orleans. It also reaches the Atlantic 

 Ocean at Brunswick, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Nor- 

 folk, Newport News, Baltimore, and many of the coasl cities in 

 the East. Within twelve hours produce may be transported to 

 Chicago, the city that dominates the Lake region and the great 

 Northwest. Louisville may be reached in five hour-. Cincinnati 

 in nine hours, St. Louis in twelve hours, Buffalo in twenty-three 

 hours, Kansas City in twenty-three hours, Detroit in twenty 



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