The Tennessee Hand-Book and Immigrant's Guide: Giving a Description of the State of Tennessee ... with special reference to the subject of immigration

170 Pages·1868·8.557 MB·English

by  Hermann Bokum

RECOMMENDATIONS.
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I have read a portion ofthe work of the Rev. Hermann Bokum,
now in press, and I know it to be a correct delineation of the
resources of this State. I wish Mr. Bokum success in his efforts,
now continued for years, to draw into the State of Tennessee a
good immigrant population.
W. G. BROWNLOW,
Governor of Tennessee,
Mr. Bokum has been most active and zealous in his eiforts to
obtain information as to the resources of Tennessee, and in my
opinion has been quite successful. I have seen much of his pro-
posed book in manuscript, and feel sure it will be of great value in
calling the attention ofimmigrants to our State.
A. FLETCHER,
J.
Secretary ofState.

THE
TENNESSEE HAND-BOOK
AND
IMMIGRANT'S GUIDE:
GIVINa A DESCBIPTION OP
THE STATE OF TENNESSEE;
ITS AGRICULTURAL AND MINERALOGICAL CHARACTER; ITS "WATER-
POWER, TIMBER, SOIL, AND CLIMATE; ITS VARIOUS RAILROAD
LINES, COMPLETED,IN PROGRESS, AND PROJECTED ITS ADAP-
;
TATION FOR STOCK-RAISING, GRAPE CULTURE, ETC., ETC.
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SUBJECT OF IMMIGRATION.
BY ^
HEEMAlsrH" BOKTJM.
CommissionerofImmigration.
PHILADELPHIA-:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PUBLISHERS,
713 aud 717 MarketStreet,
1868.

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"Entered, accordingtoActofCongress, intheyear1867,by
ANNA R. S. BOKUM,
In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
KINO & BAIRD,
PRINTERS AND STERE0TTPER3,
607 SANSOM STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
The Situation and Conformation of Tennessee 5
Political Division of Tennessee into East, Middle and West. 6
I. East Tennessee 6
General Outline 6
1. The Counties of East Tennessee 15
2. Description of the Counties 15
8. Minerals 48
4. Forests and Game 49
5. Summary of Kailroads .*....,. 50
6. Fruit 51
" 7. Average Value of Land 51
8. Names of well-informed Men in each County 53
9. Concluding Kemarks 54
II.---MIDDLE Tennessee 55
General Outline 55
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1. The Counties of Middle Tennessee 60
2. Remarks 80
Average Value ofLand '. 80
Tabular Statement of the "Weather 81
The Temperature ofJSIiddle Tennessee 82
m. West Tennessee 83
General Outline 83
1. The Counties ofWest Tennessee 86
2. Average Value of Land 98
Summary of the Three Sections. ., > 98
1. Rivers 98
2. Climate 100
8. Manufactures 101
4. Agriculture 105
5. Security of Life and Property 107
6. The Character of the People 108
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7. Immigration Colonies I *. 109
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8. Minerals Ill
9. Table of Railroads in tlie State 115
10. The harmonious development of the State abasis of its
prosperity 117
11. Education 123
13. Eeligion 125
13. Immigration andthe Colored Population 126
14. Library 127
15. Public Institutions 127
16. Titles 127
17. Government 127
18. The General Assembly and the State Board of Immi-
gration 128
AnActto Encourage Immigration 130
Address tothe People of Tennessee 133
Form ofConstitution 136
Questions 136
Address of the State Board. 137
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19. Statistical Summary for 1860 143
Table of Improved and Unimproved Lands 144
20. Prices in Knoxville in 1868 147
21. Grape Culture 147
32. The Treatment of Immigrants ". 151
23. Immigrant Routes of"Travel 151
24. Now is the Time to Buy....4^ 152
35. Immigration and the Press 153
26. An Invitation 153
Appendix 155
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AVindication of our Credit abroad 155
Extract fromthe Address of the Hon. O. P. Temple 157
Correspondence with Associations and Individuals 161
The Credit of the State once more 161
INTRODUCTION
During my residence in the Nortli, from 1862 to
1867, I held for more than a year a position in the
Bureau of Immigration in the State Department at
Washington. The knowledge I obtained on the sub-
ject of Immigration, while holding that position, filled
me with a strong wish to direct a portion of this Im-
migration to the State of Tennessee. Yet while other
States published and circulated, in this country and
in Europe, accounts of their resources in different
languages, and obtained large accessions to their
population, the political condition of Tennessee left no
room for such efforts.
Now, however, the time seems to have come for
Tennessee to take her place among the other States in
this respect, and I place the following pages before
the public, in the confident hope that they will con-
tribute to prepare the way for such action as the
importance of the subject calls for. Instead of the
almost exclusive attention to agriculture, which has
prevailed in the South for so many years, there is now
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felt a general desire tliat there sliould be a "harmonious
development of its resources. In consequence of it,
immigration, wMcli in former times was regarded by
many with indifference or dislike^ is now greatly
desired.
I have dwelt especially on those portions of the
State where a partial development of its resources
holds out to the immigrant special advantages. In
stating the latter I Lave endeavored to exercise great
caution, in order to avoid disappointment.
I am under great obligations to His Excellency the
Grovernor, and to the Honorable Secretary of State, on
my
account of their interceding in behalf with the
Presidents of the railroads of the State, and to these
Presidents for the kindness they have shown me. I
also desire to acknowledge the very great benefit
•which I have derived from the publications of Pro-
fessor Safibrd, late Geologist of the State.
HERMANN BOKUM.
NiSHviLLB, February 1, 1868.