Download or read book Travelers Guide to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (Classic Reprint) written by Lucas and Co and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travelers Guide to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad The city of Nashville, the southern terminus of the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad, is the chief city and the Capi tal of the State of Tennessee. There is no city in the Union that has a finer location, more eligible building sites, a richer variety {if surrounding landsee e, a healthier, pleas anter climate. The place was founde in the year 1779 by a party of North Carolinians, of which Gen. James Robert son was chief. The name first agreed upon was Nashbor ough, afterwards changed to Nashville, in honor of General Francis Nash, of North Carolina, who was killed at the bat tle of Germantown in 1777. From its foundation up, Nash ville has had a slow but steady and certain progress. In 1787 there were about half a dozen framed and log houses, a twenty or thirty cabins. In 1801 a law was passed by th General Assembly authorizing a tax to build a market house. In 1804 the population was 400. In 1806 the town was incorporated, with a Mayor and six Aldermen, Joseph Coleman being the first Mayor. In 1801 the population had increased to In 1818 the first steamboat arrived, hail ing from Pittsburg. She was 110 tuns burden, and named General Jackson. In 1823 the population was and in 1830. 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.